Even the most devoted fans of traditional paper books will not deny that electronic readers are becoming increasingly popular. More and more often we see people reading books from the screen of a tablet computer, smartphone and other devices.

Today our Top 5 presents the best electronic libraries of Runet, where you can find literature of various genres completely free of charge. Some libraries also offer listening, viewing and downloading audio and video materials of an entertaining and educational nature.

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This online library appeared online back in 1994. The laconic design of the Lib.ru library website is noteworthy; the administration states that the appearance of the page has not changed since 1994 and will not change. Except literary texts available on the website music section, where popular songs are posted in MP3 format.

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The library contains texts of 57 thousand works of different genres by 14 thousand authors. Almost 200 thousand users are registered on the portal. Privileges are available to authorized visitors: the ability to change font sizes, page design while reading, the ability to view detailed ratings of books and authors, the ability to take part in surveys and voting, and the ability to create bookmarks.

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The library has 100 thousand texts various works. The site has been operating since 2003, all texts are available both for reading online and for downloading. The library's collections are replenished by the readers themselves. It is noteworthy that on the page of each book there is a QR code that allows owners mobile devices If you have a special application, use the convenient library service.

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The library has been operating since 2008, today the database contains more than 25 thousand texts, as well as many audio books and video lessons. There are quite a lot in the database periodicals different profiles, here you can download the latest issues of Forbes, National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Health and other magazines. There are more than 26 thousand registered users of the site.

One of the first and most popular Russian-speaking electronic libraries, it opened in 1994. Authors and readers contribute to the library on a voluntary basis every day. The service does not charge money; you can read absolutely everything for free. The only negative is that you cannot download the book.

2. Aldebaran

11. Bookland.com

Shop e-books Bookland also offers a collection of free titles in convenient formats in 18 languages.

12. Library club

The electronic library and online store "Biblioclub" offers interesting conditions: by purchasing 10 books, you can become the owner of the “Bookworm” status and receive half the content of the store for free use. The platform also provides “Genius” status - this is when you have free access to all books on the site. Good option, especially if you are interested in literature about business and self-development, educational collections.

13. “Russian fiction”

The bookshelf of the Russian Fiction website contains more than 10,000 texts by 180 authors.

14. Project Gutenberg

The Project Gutenberg digital library will delight fans of reading foreign languages. This is more than 46 thousand electronic books, the predominant language is English.

15.ThankYou.ru

ThankYou.ru is a portal of music and literature provided free of charge. Good selection of books in electronic format fb2, as well as the opportunity for beginning authors to publish their book for free.

16. Library of Foreign Literature named after. Rudomino

Library of Foreign Literature named after. Rudomino has digitized part of her holdings. These are mostly rare books.

17. "Bookcase"

The cozy children's library "Bookcase" digitized many good children's books, but in 2009 it was subject to a hacker attack and lost almost all of its assets. But something has been preserved. You can read children's works by clicking on the book icon in the drawn cabinet.

18. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology shares specialized books in PDF format on its bookshelf. Professionals rate the sample as excellent.

19. Magazine room

"Magazine Hall" - electronic library of modern literary magazines Russia. Here you can find the latest issues of the most famous domestic "thick magazines". The database is replenished quite quickly, and reading is interesting, because many large works first published here, and then migrated to separate books.

20. Electronic library of the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences

At the end of 2015, the “Electronic Library” section appeared on the website of the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Now it contains about 400 scanned scientific publications, divided by area for the convenience of users. These are "Theory of Literature", "Russian Literature", "Literature of the Peoples of Russia and the CIS Countries", " Foreign literature", "Folkloristics" and others. The library is being replenished; you do not need to register on the site.

This coming Sunday, April 23, the whole world will celebrate Book Day and copyright. This holiday became global not so long ago - a UNESCO decision was made in 1995 to develop cultural traditions, and also taking into account the fact that books are the most important means dissemination of knowledge and in a reliable way their preservation

The creator of the oldest electronic library in Runet, Lib.ru, Maxim Moshkov, is confident that despite the growing popularity of audiovisual formats of perception, books are regaining their former popularity: “After reading several news feeds and social networks, people still take a real book, load it into a smartphone and read it.” . Even if smartphones in the future transform from the form we are familiar with today, the books they contain will always remain close to the reader.

We asked ourselves where Russians download digital books from today and whether they are interested in the future in these books - in our new “TOP” section there is a selection of the most popular online libraries on the Runet, which also offer their readers the science fiction genre. As a basis for ranking, we took the level of the Yandex Citation Index (TIC) - a system for calculating the popularity of sites by the number of links to them on other Internet resources.

1. The leader of the “book” TOP, as expected, was Maxim Moshkov’s library Lib.Ru. The status of the most authoritative and well-known is confirmed by the level of the citation index of over 16 thousand units. The most famous library on the Runet was opened in 1994 and is replenished by the authors and readers themselves. Today the library contains more than three thousand science fiction works.

1. In second place is the online library "Aldebaran". TIC - 4700. For many, the purple design of this site still evokes nostalgia for the times when access to the Internet was the lot of the elite. In 2008, the site announced a change in priorities - it became possible to read books only from the screen, and for downloading it was proposed to go to a digital bookstore. Fantasy is presented here with dignity, although its exact quantity is not indicated.

1. The Bookz.ru electronic library today contains almost 100 thousand books and in terms of the citation index - 4300 - it is barely inferior to Aldebaran. Almost all famous authors are represented in the fiction section: both domestic and foreign.

1. The RoyalLib.ru library (TIC 2500) focuses on literature on philosophy, medicine and psychology. However, fantasy is also represented here, with all the books in this section carefully divided into subgenres from post-apocalyptic to “romance fiction”.

1. Taking fifth place with a citation index of 2100, the Litportal library tries to captivate readers with extensive forums in each section and for each book. The collection of science fiction here is poorer - only about 5 thousand copies, but these are only time-tested books about the future.

1. In the library Thelib.ru (TIC 1800) among the works of classical and modern literature science fiction takes a proud first place.

1. Library scientific books and journals Sci-lib.com (1500) offers a rich collection of scientific publications. There is no science fiction section here as such, but there are many articles about technologies that even today look absolutely fantastic.

1. The Seran Electronic Library (TIC 1200) cannot boast of an exorbitant amount of literature - only a little more than one and a half thousand texts are presented here, but there is a fiction section, and science fiction is included in a separate subsection.

1. A rather unusual representative of our list is the “Belarusian Digital Library” (TIC 1200), which presents the widest possible cross-section national literature Belarus, including texts by Belarusian science fiction writers.

1. Our book TOP is completed by the “National Digital Resource “Rukont” - an interdisciplinary electronic library. According to the creators of the Russian CONTENT website, a database of more than 440 thousand works has been formed here, a significant part of which are science fiction works.

At the end of 2016 Access to free fiction and specialized literature is significantly limited. Sites are either blocked government agencies, or monetize downloads of their own free will.

Explore the 30 most popular resources, offering free downloads of books, gave the following results. Sites use only rare and unpopular works as free literature.

All modern books, as well as the creations of classics, strictly limited access. You will see information about this either immediately or by downloading the file and reading part of the book (the so-called “introductory fragment”). The price that must be paid for downloading the literature will also be indicated there. This rule applies to such popular sites as LitMir, Librusek, Aldebaran, Vceknigi, Bookz, OwnLib, LibOk, Big Free Library and others.

This article selects digital libraries with a large database on which you can actually download all the books for free. Supported formats for most works are .fb2, .pdf, .txt.

Attention : Before opening links to sites, read the descriptions. 3 of the 4 sites listed are blocked by Roskomnadzor and will only open with the help of simple manipulations.

1. Flibusta

A book fraternity operating from the deep end of the internet. We wrote about how a little earlier. The largest electronic library with free access. It is replenished by the users themselves. At the end of 2016 can boast 354,000 books. More than 2000 books are added monthly.

2. Large electronic library

Free download. 60,000 books. Enough large number categories, but the interface is not very user-friendly. If you know what you want to find, you will like the site. Fast page loading speed and downloading books in 1 click.

3. Verbal Bogatyr

This library of e-books is also located in an area of ​​the Internet hidden from search robots. Therefore, it should be opened using TOR browser. Detailed instructions To enter, follow the link in the first point of the rating. The owners of the resource do not report the number of books presented, but test queries demonstrate a large volume of the database. The site's interface is extremely user-friendly and reduces the time required to search and download a book to a few seconds.

Unfortunately, we did not find any other serious sites in RuNet that provide free access to downloading classical and modern literature.

As before, a significant number of works of Russian and world literature can be downloaded using the site Rutracker — our window into the world of free cinema, books and software. For those who have not yet configured access to the resource, we recommend using. The convenience of a torrent tracker is that books by one author can be downloaded in one file, and a large number of audiobooks are presented.

If you want to continue using the services free electronic libraries, we recommend that you master the shadow part of the World Wide Web (deep network), as well as stock up on useful links to access sites of interest. Or download books from your favorite authors and allocate several GB of disk space for them.

Truly professional people have always been distinguished by their love of literature. Even Joseph Stalin, despite his high position, read at least 300 pages a day. Receiving the Stalin Prize for Literature in the USSR was the greatest honor, because the leader himself personally read all the books.

IN lately they are increasingly talking about decline book culture- Russia has long lost the title of the most reading country in the world. These assumptions are based on data from the book trade, which is indeed in a sad situation. However, no conclusions can be drawn from this. People didn't stop reading - they just switched to another medium.

Electronic books, e-readers, as they are called, allow you to take with you not just one book, but an entire library, which is very important if, for example, you want to read “The Forsyte Saga” and then immediately “ Dark Tower" Naturally, there are no storage problems. And with accessibility - you can get the book you are interested in immediately, rather than going to the bookstore, which may well not have it. But in order not to rush all over the Internet, it is useful to know the places where this particular old edition of a very rare book may turn up.

and “Flibusta” (www.flibusta.net). The libraries are similar both in content (there are a lot of different books) and in design. On the page of each book there is an abstract, ratings and reviews from readers. Perhaps the only significant difference is that downloading some books on Librusek is paid. However, online reading is always available - on both sites.

Now let's move on to libraries with specialization.

Previous sites contain huge amount books, but with rare exceptions these are books of the 18th-21st centuries. If you need the text of “The Prayer of Daniel the Imprisoner,” then the Im warden website (www.imwerden.de) will come to the rescue. Except ancient Russian literature And literature XVIII- XX centuries, works of some foreign authors are presented.

For science fiction fans, the website www.fantasykniga.com will be very useful. It's relative new library. User-friendly interface, free downloading, active increase in the number of books, beautiful design, can finally make the library popular in the near future.

Gumer Library

It is impossible not to mention the Goomer () library, which contains a selection scientific works By humanities. Here you can find books on philology, Orthodoxy, law, philosophy, foreign languages, incl. “exotic” - Japanese or Turkish. This is the most popular scientific portal where you can find something that cannot be found on other sites.

magazines.russ.ru) - the most convenient and full meeting periodicals. Binders from the early nineties are presented. Here you can find magazines: Arion, Zvezda, Foreign Literature, Continent, New world etc. That is, “thick” literary magazines are presented.

The library “www.sci-lib.com” offers a selection of scientific books and magazines. Areas of expertise represented: various natural sciences(archaeology, astronomy, paleontology, physics, etc.), mathematics, technology, humanities(history, psychology, sociology), society. There is a selection of encyclopedic publications. So, here you can find all the volumes of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia or the encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron.

To know better story Russia is offered by the Runiverse portal (www.runivers.ru). The material is divided into sections: atlases, military history, general history, regimental, etc. There is a collection of historical documents.

Naturally, the number of Runet libraries is huge, but we tried to draw your attention to the most famous and interesting projects.