About us

What

We are a place to find free public domain audio books and eBooks.

You can explore over 100,000 Kindle, ePUB, and audio books using our free bookshelves.

Our powerful search engine not only looks hard for free digital books from great sources such as Librivox, Gutenberg, Google Books, and Open Library, but also includes results from Amazon to give you the best choice.

Why

Our goal is to help as many people as possible find and enjoy digital books.

We wanted to build an experience that was simple, easy-to-use and accessible no matter where you are in the world.

To provide a solution that works across thousands of device and platform combinations; on mobile, tablet or desktop.

How

The solution stack includes a modern responsive UI, currently tied to a more traditional backend pipeline.

  • Typescript
  • React
  • Recoil
  • Tailwind
  • HTML5, JS, CSS
  • Workbox
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Cloudflare
  • Nginx
  • PHP
  • Node JS
  • Sphinx server
  • Wordpress
  • MySQL
  • Linux

Who

  • Philip Battle
    Founder
    CEO
    CTO
  • Pete Midgley
    Founder
    CFO
    CMO

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