How to download books for free on Android

Do you love reading and would you like to be able to kill time on the subway or in the waiting rooms by leafing through a good book, perhaps in digital format on your smartphone or tablet? Well, if you own an Android device this is your lucky day.

Today, in fact, I want to show you how to download books for free on Android by taking advantage of some applications and some Internet sites that allow you to download great classics and works by emerging authors for free in a totally legal way.

Yes, you read that right! There are hundreds of very famous works that are no longer protected by copyright and therefore can be distributed on the Internet at no cost without breaking any law. And the same goes for the books and stories of some emerging authors who have not yet made it to the forefront of the charts and have decided to make themselves known through the big network.

Courage! Open the Google Play Store or your browser and follow the suggestions I’m about to give you! A load of culture and entertainment is about to arrive on your smartphone/tablet that will make your moments of break spent in front of the device screen certainly more profitable.

Google Play Books

One of the main ways that you can follow to download free books on Android is Google Play Books, a service connected to the Google Play Store that gives access to a huge range of both free and paid titles in Italian.

To download free ebooks from Google Play Books, start the app, press the  button at the top left and select the item Buy from the bar that appears on the side of the screen. Next, browse the tabs at the top and select the one with the wording FREE.

At this point, you just have to select the book to download and click on Add to collection / Buy: the work should be displayed automatically. Subsequently, to access the ebooks downloaded from Google Play, you will have to press the  button at the top left and go to  My Library. Reading can also be done offline.

Amazon Kindle

Another app that I recommend you to try is that of Kindle which, as easily understood, allows you to read the books available on the Amazon digital store on any Android smartphone and tablet (including some free ones).

To find free ebooks on the Kindle Store (we mostly talk about old classics), start the application, press the Start reading button  and log in using your Amazon account data. If you do not yet have an Amazon account, create it “on the fly” by pressing the Create a new Amazon account button and follow the instructions on the screen.

Once logged in, if you are not already in the Kindle Store, press the Shop button located at the bottom. Then tap on the ebooks item located at the top left, press the Filter button that appears at the top right and set the options Sort by>  Price: ascending order from the menu that opens to view the list of all free ebooks available on the Kindle Store.

At this point, choose the book you want to download on your smartphone/tablet, select its cover image and press the Download it now for free button. The ebook will be automatically downloaded to your library, where you can read it simply by selecting its cover (on the home screen of the Kindle app) or by pressing the Read Now button that will appear on its Kindle Store page.

If you are an Amazon Prime customer, you can access hundreds of ebooks and comics for free thanks to the Amazon Prime Reading service, which Amazon launched in May 2018. To browse the Amazon Prime Reading catalog, select the item related to the service from the start page of the  Store of the Kindle app (top left), then tap on  Browse the catalog, locate the work of your interest and start downloading it by first touching its cover image and then the Read now button.

If the Amazon Prime Reading catalog seems too limited to you, you can try Amazon Kindle Unlimited: the Amazon service that for 9.99 euros/month (with a 30-day free trial without restrictions) allows you to download thousands of titles in Italian and millions of titles in other languages, as explained in my dedicated tutorial.

Kobo

Another very famous digital book store that allows you to download books for free on Android (and on all supported devices) is Kobo, which in Italy is owned by Mondadori.

To use the official Kobo app, download it from the Google Play Store, launch it and log in using your Facebook or  Google account. Then, “tap” on the  button located at the top left, select the Store item from the bar that appears on the side and search for the term free in the search bar located at the top.

A menu will automatically open with all the free titles available on the Kobo store sorted by genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Fantasy,  Mystery and Thriller,  Nonfiction, and so on. Once you have identified the book of your interest, select its cover image and download it to your device by pressing the Add to Library button.

At the end of the download, you can consult the ebooks downloaded in your Kobo library by pressing the  button located at the top left and selecting the item  All elements from the bar that appears on the side.

GuteBooks

GuteBooks is a free application that allows you to find and download hundreds of works that are no longer protected by copyright. Its database contains books in all languages, including Italian, and no registration is required to use it.

To search for a book in GuteBooks, start the app and use the search bar located at the top. Alternatively you can expand the drop-down menu located at the top left and choose to browse all the ebooks available based on genres or authors.

When you find a book of your interest, you can read it directly online by pressing on its cover image or you can download it offline by holding your finger on its cover image and selecting  Download from the menu that opens. The downloaded ebooks can be consulted by expanding the drop-down menu located at the top left and selecting the item  Downloaded from the latter.

Wattpad

Now I want to tell you about  Wattpad, a collaborative publishing application that allows you to read works by emerging authors from all over the world for free. It also contains many ebooks and short stories in Italian of various kinds.

After installing Wattpad on your smartphone or tablet, fill out the form that is proposed to you to create a free account and store all your preferences and your online readings. If you want to do this first, you can authenticate with your Facebook and  Google accounts by pressing the appropriate buttons.

Once logged in, to browse the list of ebooks available on Wattpad, press the house icon located at the bottom left and select one of the ebook categories listed at the top of the screen:  Horror,  Love Stories,  Humor,  Science fiction etc. At this point, select the cover of the work you want to read and press the Read button to start reading and the (+) button to add the book to your personal library.

The works available on Wattpad can only be consulted when there is an active Internet connection, so you cannot download and read them offline.

I’ll tell you a fairy tale

Do you often deal with children who like to listen to fairy tales before falling asleep? Then you could turn your Android smartphone/tablet into an automatic fairy tale dispenser by downloading I’ll tell you a fairy tale.

As its name suggests, with this app, which is totally free, you can always have fairy tales and stories for children in Italian at your fingertips. Also worth noting is the presence of a nice function to record your voice while reading a story aloud.

Illustrating how the app works is almost superfluous: just start it, select the fairy tale of your interest and that’s it. There is no need to subscribe or additional downloads.

Sites to download books for free on Android

Finally, let me recommend some sites that allow you to download free ebooks from the Internet and that can also be used without problems from smartphones and tablets.

  • LiberLiber- one of the most well-stocked Italian sites for free ebooks. It houses hundreds of classics no longer protected by copyright and the works of contemporary authors who have decided to distribute their works on the Internet.
  • Project Gutenberg- a real benchmark for free books. It houses thousands of works in all languages. Mostly literary classics and other works that the respective authors have decided to freely distribute online.
  • FeedBooks- hosts a large selection of public domain ebooks in Italian.
  • Free Ebook- a well-known portal that hosts the works of emerging authors.

The books that can be downloaded from the sites listed above are available in various file formats: ePub, PDF and many others. To view them, I recommend using the free Universal Book Reader application or one of the many ebook readers available on the Play Store. If you want some more information on how to use the sites I have just pointed out, read my post on how to download books for free.

 

 

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