Free E-Book Sources: A Comprehensive Guide for Filling Your Kobo Library

How to Get Free Books for Kobo

Posted by Ada Wang on 12/3/2018 11:13:27 AM.

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As an eBook lover, books may be one of your biggest spending. You may think a good book is worth any price. But having a Kobo eReader makes you read more. The problemis that some eBooks aren’t cheap. Why not try to save money by getting some of your Kobo books for free online? This guide I will talk about how to get free books for Kobo. I think it will be nice to download free eBooks online for your Kobo.

8 free sites to download Kobo books for free

Usually I would not buy an eBook unless I really like it and cannot find it for free. So I always like downloading free books online. Here I recommend you some good sites which can download Kobo books for free.

1. Smashwords

Smashwords is a self-serve publishing service. There are a large quantity of books from independent publishers and authors. Books here contain multiple eBook formats for reading on various eBook reading devices, such as Kobo, Nook and Kindle.

Besides, all books from here are DRM-free. It means if you download EPUB or PDF books, you can read them on Kobo and any other devices that support this format.

The first reason I like this website is that it will tell you how many free books here. At the time of wirtting this article, there are 56416 free books here. You can select categories at the left panel first and then tap “Free” to find the free books list and choose your favorite books to download.

2. Feedbooks

Feedbooks provides eBooks with particularly high-quality typesetting in multiple formats, such as EPUB, Kindle, and PDF formats. Now it offers over 80,000 eBooks. It distributes millions of books to an increasingly growing community of readers.

You can find free books by click “Public Domain” or “Original Books”, both contains fiction and non-fiction books. You can also pick a category to find books you like and download free eBooks for your Kobo eReader.

3. ManyBooks

ManyBooks is run as a service to the Internet community at large. The site offers more than 33,000 free eBooks in over 20 digital formats, including EPUB, Mobi, PDF, etc. You can easily browse for a Kobo EPUB eBook through the most popular titles or recommendations.

4. Goodreads

Goodreads is a “social cataloging” website. It offers books in EPUB, PDF and Txt format. Though there are only about 2,500 titles here, the catalog is also not very huge, you can still find many interesting books here. Besides, you can not only get Kobo EPUB eBooks for free from this site, but also read some funny books with its online reader.

5. DigiLibraries

DigiLibraries offers almost 30,000 free eBooks in digital format–including PDF and EPUB for any taste. It’s free eBooks collection is growing all the time. There are several categories to choose from. You can select one of these categories in the left panel or just simply use the search box at the top to find books you like and then get free Kobo eBooks for your Kobo glo.

6. GetFreeBooks

GetFreeEBooks is a free eBooks site where you can find many totally free books, which are in currently popular formats-including Kobo EPUB or PDF. To find free Kobo books, you can choose lots of categories from the right side or just search books by using its search box. Here it also recommends you some hot and must-have books.

7. BookYards

BookYards is a web portal. As long as you have an internet connection, all the content will be free for you. You can find free books here in all kinds of categories, including Art, Business, Computer, etc. Here you can also upload and publish your own books to share them.

8. E-Books Directory

E-Books Directory is a freely downloadable online books website. It’s daily updated with newly eBooks in multiple formats–including EPUB and download links. You can find books you need by browsing through its lots of categories or just search free Kobo books to download. Every day, it will display the different featured books for you. You can also get the latest eBook titles via Rss feed.

Free Kobo books download on Twitter

Except downloading free Kobo books from websites, we can also find some free books for Kobo on Twitter. Because many authors sell their Kobo books on Kobo online eBooks store by limited time free, at the same time, they will spread the books on their own Twitter account. You can just input “Kobo limited free” and tap the search icon to find some free Kobo books.

That’s all I want to share with you. If you have some better recommendations for downloading free Kobo books online, please let me know. By the way, if you have trouble in opening and reading these downloaded free Kobo books, it may be because of DRM protection. After all not all your downloaded free books from the websites are DRM-free, you can use the tool Epubor Ultimate to help you decrypted your books. For detailed information, please read how to remove Adobe DRM to learn more. It’s easy to use, I believe you will like it. You are also welcome to download the Free Trial of Epubor Ultimate to test it today.

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Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such as ebookconverter.blogspot.com.

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Marilyn

Re:How to Get Free Books for Kobo

12/31/2020 10:38:18

Books for Kobo

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Helen

Re:How to Get Free Books for Kobo

01/14/2021 10:00:50

I have just moved to a Kobo Aura, I keep having to pay for books, so not sure how I can get free/loan books or at least a discount rather than paying $ 11.99 through kobo each time?

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Jen

Re:Helen

05/19/2022 21:29:54

Have you tried Overdrive? All Kobo devices have Overdrive that you could link with your local library

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rami

Re:How to Get Free Books for Kobo

12/14/2022 19:46:02

my son wants a book called the witches for free

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