Girlebooks is a free website that helps to download free eBooks written by female writers. All books available in this website are DRM (Digital Rights Management) free. You can download those eBooks in PDF, ePub, PDB, LIT (can be opened by Microsoft Reader), and Kindle/Mobipocket PRC format. Hundreds of eBooks are available which you can browse by author, romance, American Literature, British Literature, mystery, etc.
There are many paid eBooks also in its Ebook Store. But the interesting fact is that those eBooks can also be downloaded completely free. However, illustrations (photographs, watercolors, etc.) will not be available in free version of paid ebooks.
Interface of this website is visible in above screenshot.
Similar websites that helps to download free eBooks are: Litfy and Smashwords.
Key Features of Girlebooks:
- Ebook Catalog section is available in this website. Using this section, you can find all the newly released ebooks.
- If you have browsed a particular category of eBooks, then you can further sort eBooks by released date, original publish date, etc.
- Before downloading an eBook, you can also read review (done by Girlebooks) regarding that particular eBook. This might give you better idea whether you should download that eBook or not.
- Paid eBooks can also be downloaded for free without illustration. However, you can add eBooks to cart to get illustrated edition of paid books. Payment can be done via PayPal.
- Text digitization and proofread is used from Project Gutenberg. So error free and grammatically correct eBooks can be found here.
- You can also rate eBooks and post your own comments.
How To Download Free eBooks From This Website?
Girlebooks require no sign up process to use this website. You can directly browse eBooks just by accessing its homepage. Its homepage link is present at the end of this review.
Main interface of this website will show you first page with cover art of eBooks present on that webpage. Author name will also be visible to you for each individual eBook. You can browse through pages to find eBook of your interest or can search for a particular eBook. Apart from this, you can browse books by author, mystery, title, romance, or by tags (biography, Illustrated, travel, slavery, etc.).
To download a particular eBook, simply click on its album art. After that, you can click on drop down option to find the available formats for download. As soon as you click on a particular format, eBook will start downloading to PC.
Once the download is completed, you can open that eBook with associated application. For example, if book is downloaded in ePub format, use some ePub reader to open it.
Conclusion:
For females as well as for all those people who love to read female writers eBooks, this could a great platform to get DRM free eBooks. Online book reading is not possible here which might disappoint you. But its a nice website where you can find hundreds of eBooks available completely free.