One of the best things I’ve ever bought is my PocketBook Touch Lux 5. It’s a small, yet quite powerful e-ink book reader. It has quite modest specs with 8Gb of internal storage, though extendable via a micro SD card.

You can even make the reader itself better by replacing the default one with KoReader, an Open-Source one having a tad more features.

So, in this day and age, where do you find books? Well, thanks to the power of the internet, this is easier than ever, and with an added bonus, every single entry in this list is completely DRM-free.

  • Project Gutenberg: probably the most well-known online library. It has thousands upon thousands of books over a great variety of subjects. Lots of the books loaded on my e-reader are from there.
  • HumbleBundle: yup, the same ones that usually do games. Though the offers rotate periodically, it is a good source of books. Usual subjects are software development and other technical subjects.
  • StoryBundle: one I wasn’t familiar with at the time of writing this post. A bit like HumbleBundle, StoryBundle offers curated e-books packages at a really decent price. If you pay over a certain price (20USD for instance), you’ll even get bonus books. Given most of the money goes back to the writers, this is an excellent way of getting books.
  • Anna’s Archive: probably the largest aggregator of shadow libraries. Sadly downloads are really slow if you don’t pay, so I’d recommend going for shadow libraries directly. Though this aggregator is really useful when needed to find some exotic stuff.

Do note that some options listed above might not be available in your country. For instance, Anna’s Archive is being actively blocked in Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK.

In any case, I hope you’re having as much fun as I do reading books. At some point, I’ll look into either swapping the current micro-USB port of my reader for a USB-C one, or try to find a completely Open-Source e-ink reader.

Micro-USB in this day and age is kinda annoying to use given it’s not as common as 10 years ago.