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MyBookPDF is dedicated to making classic literature accessible to everyone, everywhere. We believe that great books — the works that have shaped cultures, defined literary movements, and inspired generations of readers — should be free to read, free of distraction, and free of the friction that comes with downloading files, installing apps, or creating accounts. Every title in our library can be opened and read in seconds, in any modern browser, without signing up.
Every title in the MyBookPDF library is a public domain work — a book whose copyright has expired, was never asserted, or was explicitly placed in the public domain by its author. In the United States, this generally means works published before 1929 (the cutoff slides forward by one year each January). Other jurisdictions use the “life of the author plus 50 to 70 years” rule. Public domain works are not just legal to read for free — they belong to everyone, in every country.
Our primary text source is Project Gutenberg, the volunteer-driven digital library founded in 1971 that has digitized over 75,000 public-domain books. Project Gutenberg texts have been proofread by volunteers from the Distributed Proofreaders project and are released under the Project Gutenberg License (free for any non-commercial use; commercial use permitted with the Project Gutenberg trademark removed). Where appropriate we supplement Gutenberg with texts from Standard Ebooks (formatted, professionally typeset public-domain editions) and the Internet Archive (scanned originals).
Each book on MyBookPDF includes its publication year, original author, original language, and source citation — typically a link back to the Project Gutenberg page where you can download the underlying EPUB, plain text, or HTML in any format you prefer. We don’t scrape, redistribute, or modify the public-domain texts beyond formatting them for browser-friendly reading. The text you read here is exactly what Project Gutenberg released.
High school and college English programs assign classic literature for a reason: works like Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein, and Their Eyes Were Watching God are foundational to how we discuss class, ambition, identity, scientific responsibility, and race. Reading them as an adult — or as a curious teenager outside the classroom — is a different experience than studying them for a quiz. We built MyBookPDF for the second kind of reader: the person who wants Austen on a Saturday afternoon or Dickens on a long flight, without paying for a paperback they’ll read once or wrestling with a download.
MyBookPDF is not affiliated with Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, or the Internet Archive — though we’re indebted to their work. We are not a piracy site: every book we host is verifiably in the public domain. We do not host copyrighted works without permission. We are not a download site: we offer browser-based reading, and link out to the underlying source for anyone who wants to download the file in a format of their choice. We do not collect personal data or require sign-up to read.
MyBookPDF is operated by an independent publisher in the Netherlands as part of a small library of independently-operated reading and reference sites. The site is funded by display advertising via Google AdSense — visible only on category and editorial pages, never inside the reading interface itself. We do not run pop-ups, interstitials, or autoplay video. If an ad placement ever interferes with reading, please report it via the contact page.
If you find a typo in a book, a broken reading interface, a citation that’s out of date, or anything else that needs correcting, we appreciate the heads-up. Reach us at our contact page. We typically respond within 48 hours. For copyright concerns specifically — if you believe a book on our site is not actually in the public domain — please include the title, author, publication year, and the reason you believe the work remains under copyright.