Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. E-Book Site for Classics launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1EB
   E-Book Site for Classics▲94

   2017 · bookeyes.co · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Rocket Reads▲147

   A simpler alternative to Goodreads

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3AR
   A Reddit+Wiki-like site for finding and sharing audiobooks▲9

   2018 · audiobookreviews.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Sapiens▲185

   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Tubes▲54

   A Journey to the Center of the Internet

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Vatican Library Online▲66

   Thousands of ancient manuscripts now available online free

   2015 · vaticanlibrary.va · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Folio▲98

   A read-later app sending a typeset digest to your e-reader

   Aug 2026 · myfolio.so · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Kooba▲141

   An interactive graph for finding new books

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   RedShelf▲5

   E-books

   2018 · redshelf.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Commonplace Book App▲78

    Digitally record quotes and book notes

    2017 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Bookbot▲61

    Discovery tool from /r/fantasy community recommendations

    2016 · bookbot.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders▲85

    I created a site (https://printableclassics.com) that allows you to download classic books and customize things like the font size, page size, and the cover. As part of this, I wrote a software pipeline that takes epubs, html files, or pdfs and converts them into formatted books with custom covers, page numbers, chapter formatting, etc. I used an LLM for categorizing the books. There's a nice way to filter such that you could easily find "Young Adult, Ancient, Fantasy" for example. When downloading from the site, the PDFS are rendered in a work queue. Hopefully the server I'm using…

    Feb 2026 · printableclassics.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Ask▲63

    The counterintuitive online formula

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Tablo▲115

    Medium for ebooks.

    2014 · tablo.io · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Readmill▲69

    A beautiful e-book reader for iPhone, iPad and Android

    2013 · readmill.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Marvin▲63

    eBook reader for iOS. Your books, everywhere.

    2014 · appstafarian.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    The Dark Net▲62

    A revelatory examination of the internet

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Librify▲76

    Reading with friends

    2014 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Project Gutenberg▲69

    Free books that are completely legal

    2015 · gutenberg.org · its alternatives →

20. 20IB
    I built a website that lets you read classic books as email newsletters▲39

    2023 · modernserial.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    E-Book▲5

    Have all your favorite books in one place!

    2018 · its alternatives →

22. 22BV
    Bookpub v1 – free web library with classic books▲16

    2020 · bookpub.club · its alternatives →

23. 23IM
    I'm building a website where people can swap books▲8

    2021 · swapiverse.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    The Gutenberg Elegies

    The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →