About goread

goread is a calm, beautiful home for the world’s classic literature — more than seventy thousand books that have entered the public domain, free to read on any device. No ads, no clutter, just the words and a comfortable place to read them.

Every book comes from Project Gutenberg, a volunteer effort to digitise and archive cultural works since 1971. These texts are free in the United States public domain; readers elsewhere should check their local copyright law.

Choose a reading theme that suits the light, set your type just so, keep your place across devices, save the passages that move you, and share them. Build a reading streak. Take the classics with you.