Public Domain Reader

eBook Software


The free Public Domain Reader (formerly Project Gutenberg Reader) site is designed to improve the readability of the eTexts by displaying them in HTML and through your Web browser. The site lets users download the Project Gutenberg eText file, or other text based file, read online in a Web browser and even buy a paper version at Amazon or Chapters. (See also our interview with the site's founder.)

Public Domain Reader

Some of the features of the site include:

  • the ability to change font face and size used to display eTexts
  • bookmarking
  • navigating to specific pages, as well as shortcut keys for moving backwards and forwards
  • Best Rated, Most Popular, Most Recently Added rating systems
  • search for eBook by Title or Author


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