You can click on any image to make it full size. In this guide, I’ll explain how it all works and how you can get access to this amazing free library in five easy steps – going through every detail and avoiding any possible issues.
Perfect for reading on your Kindle, Ipad, Android or any e-reader device capable of reading books in any eBook format. Library Genesis – also known as libgen – is a fantastic digital shadow library that gives you free access to millions of your favourite books and papers as eBooks – from fiction books to fantasy, crime to science fiction and romance to thriller, as well as textbooks, journal articles, academic works, graphic novels, comics etc – in epub, pdf, mobi and many other formats.
This library is known not just as a library but, indeed, as a ‘megalibrary’. According to its Wikipedia page, it has been voted the second most beautiful bookshop in the world.ħ. But we hope you’ll forgive the slight misnomer and allow its place in the list, if only because it looks like the kind of place one could spend hours – nay, days – browsing before one would need, or even think, to go in search of fresh air and daylight.
This library is, actually, not a library. Picture credit: Danoz73, Wikimedia Commons.Ħ. Librería El Ateneo. Bergen Public Library, Norway. This library was founded in 1872, based on the collection of 12,000 books put up for sale by a university librarian. Picture credit: Ernesto von Rückert, Wikimedia Commons.ĥ.