Open eBooks

New York Public Library

About this app

Our mission is simple: to foster the love of reading.

Our goal is to provide a free and safe reading environment in which students can develop a relationship with reading on their own terms. Open eBooks offers free ebook titles to students to read on their school-provided or personal devices.

Open eBooks stands apart from other ebook apps because we are focused only on reading. We do not collect, store or sell any personal data about users, sell any books or support any sort of in-app purchase, and do not gain any profit.

To learn more about our program, go to www.openebooks.org/faq

To get access to Open eBooks credentials to log on, teachers, school administrators, librarians and other educators can visit www.openebooks.org/educators where they can learn about our registration process.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely atrocious app! my teacher wanted the class to use this so you can read and stuff but when you try and read a book it doesn't show any text! and I was like "oh I think there is an update for it maybe that's why it wont work" but then I checked and it said the last update was in 2016!! Seven years without an update!!! Plus the books are boring, never using this app again.

There are many really good YA book selections but the app just doesn't work. When I first started using it I was frustrated that I had to go back to my books and tap read after every chapter to go to the next one. I could live with that but it doesn't always take me to the next chapter. It takes me back to the beginning or a blank page. I go to contents and choose the chapter I'm on which sometimes works but lately more often doesn't. 3 chap left and can't get it to work. I'm done.

I love the app, and the options of zoomed letters an black pages are great! The only problem is that it does not have most books that you might be looking for specifically, you kind of just have to find one that you like that is already on there. That's why I'm dropping 2 stars.

What's new

This release includes accessibility and readability improvements.