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Get free books and audiobooks

How to find and download free books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, Wikisource and more inside LuceVoce, and browse Gutenberg's catalogue.

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Free books in the library brings the great free libraries into LuceVoce. Search them all at once, or browse Project Gutenberg, and a tap on Download puts a book in your library.

Know the sources

  • Project Gutenberg, with about 78,000 classic books in 60 languages.
  • LibriVox, with audiobooks read by volunteers.
  • Wikisource, with texts in every language.
  • unglue.it and the Open Textbook Library, with books and textbooks under open licences.
  • Any catalogue of your own you add, such as a calibre library.

Search for a free book

  1. In the library, choose Free books in the rail (on an iPhone, under Browse).
  2. Type a title, an author or a subject in the search box.
  3. Narrow the results if you like, by Language, by Books or audiobooks, and by Source.

Each result shows its cover, title, author, language, source, licence and size, and In your library when you already have it.

Browse Project Gutenberg

Under the search box, look through Project Gutenberg's whole catalogue:

  • Popular: shelves of well-loved books.
  • Titles and Authors: from A to Z or Z to A, with a row of first letters to jump with.
  • Genres: the books sorted by subject.

Download a book

  1. Choose Download on the book, or Download audiobook.
  2. LuceVoce shows the progress. Choose Cancel to stop.

When it is done, the book is in your library, ready to open. A LibriVox audiobook comes with its chapters. Each book keeps its source and licence in its information.

Add your own catalogue

  1. Open Settings > Free books.
  2. Under Your catalogues, type the catalogue's address and choose Add a catalogue.

This works with a calibre content server and other catalogues in the OPDS format. In the same place you can turn each source on or off, and see when Project Gutenberg's catalogue was last brought up to date, with Update now.

Good to know

  • Most of these books are in the public domain in the United States. The law where you live may be different, and each book says so: "Public domain in the United States; check the law where you live".
  • LuceVoce only goes online for this when you open Free books, and only downloads the books you choose. The free libraries get your search words and nothing else.
  • Project Gutenberg's catalogue, about 6 MB, is downloaded at most once a week when you open Free books, and searched on your device.
  • At the end, More free books on the web lists other sites. They open in your browser; LuceVoce doesn't search them.

Related

  • Add your first bookHow to add books, documents and audiobooks to your LuceVoce library with the Add button, drag and drop, or by opening a file from another app.
  • Listen to audiobooksHow to add MP3 and M4B audiobooks to LuceVoce, move between chapters, change the speed and volume, and pick up where you stopped.
  • Browse and organise your libraryHow the LuceVoce library shows your books in a grid, a list or by series, how to sort and file them in folders, and how to reopen recent books.
  • What stays on your deviceLuceVoce has no account, no server of its own and no tracking. This page lists exactly when it goes online, what it sends, and what your sync folder holds.

Last updated 13 November 2026