Världens bibliotek är ett digitalt bibliotek. Här finns ljudböcker och e-böcker på andra språk än svenska. Du läser och lyssnar på webbsidan. Skapa en användarprofil med din mejladress för att komma igång.

Världens bibliotek är en del av det offentliga bibliotekssystemet i Sverige och Norge. Kungliga biblioteket driver Världens bibliotek i samverkan med norska Nasjonalbiblioteket. Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier ansvarar för den tekniska driften.

Vill du veta mer om tjänsten eller har du idéer kring utvecklingen? Hör gärna av dig på adressen info@varldensbibliotek.se.

• https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/nytt-fran-kb/nyheter-for-bibliotekssektorn/2019-04-26-varldens-bibliotek---fri-onlinetjanst-for-mangsprakiga-bocker.html
• https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/nytt-fran-kb/nyheter-for-bibliotekssektorn/2025-09-01-kb-tar-over-driften-av-tjansten-varldens-bibliotek.html

Where to find e-books

• Standard Ebooks, a curated collection of free and libre ebooks. Via reddit.
• Project Gutenberg, a large collection of free ebooks.
• Litteraturbanken, svenska klassiker. Via egen länknot.
• Z-Lib , z-lib.org domain seized, access via TOR or "personal domains" instead.
• Library Genesis
• Anna's Archive, an open-source search engine for shadow libraries like Sci-Hub, Libgen, and Z-Library that aims to catalog all books in existence. Via TorrentFreak.
• The Internet Archive books collection. Very varying quality, some only for lending (via libraries), not download.
• Open Library, an open, editable library catalog by the Internet Archive. I'm not sure how it relates to IA's book collection.
• OpenStax, a growing collection of chemistry/physics/math textbooks made available under open licenses.
• World Bank's open knowledge repository, over 34000 publications.
• BookFinder, a search engine for new, used, and out-of-print books.
• AbeBooks, another search engine for used and out-of-print books.
• Helda Open Books, monographs from different disciplines written/edited by University of Helsinki faculty.
• OAPEN, Online library of open access academic books, operated by the National Library in The Hague.
• DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books), community-driven, operated by OAPEN.
• Bookshop.org. Via LitHub.
• A list of all the free ePUB, PDF and MOBI eBooks published on Planet eBook - primarily European classics.

Managing your ebook collection

• Calibre, the software for managing all aspects of your ebook library. Created by Kovid Goyal, maintained by hundreds of contributors. Project repo.
• For a full-fledged web interface to your Calibre library, look no further than Calibre-web. Just like Calibre's built-in server, Calibre-web also supports OPDS, which makes it easy to integrate with mobile apps such as Librera Reader.
• COPS, a Calibre PHP OPDS server. A less-powerful alternative to Calibre-web, in my opinion. But it served me well for some time before I discovered Calibre-web.

Tools for finding e-books

• libby a commandline tool to search and download books from Library Genesis. Via lazybear.

Reading e-books

Recently discovered Thorium Reader. Works very nicely on the Linux desktop and connects to our Calibre-Web OPDS server. My Ansible role.

Foliate is another nice desktop ebook reader. My Ansible role.

For reading on Android I use Librera Reader.

More links

• A not entirely bad guide to Calibre (desktop only) by MakeTechEasier.
• Library Athena, books from Project Gutenberg neatly displayed for reading in the browser.
• https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ynipok/pirated_ebook_site_zlibrary_vanishessending
• https://tenforward.social/@jeffcutsinger/113084913783829362

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Via Edtech Factotum