Allows anyone to browse and directly download any of the more than 6,300 ebook titles available on DPLA’s Open Bookshelf. Read classic novels, children’s books, textbooks and non-English titles, all for free, with no login or library card needed.

Digital Public Library of America - Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.

Most books available in the Smithsonian Libraries online books collection are in the Public Domain unless otherwise noted, and are therefore free to download, use, re-use, and re-mix without regard to copyright. All of the books in the Digital Library are available for download as PDFs and epubs, which can be read on many dedicated ebook readers. You can also download individual page images and plain text (uncorrected OCR.)