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Alternatives to Free Programming Books

50 Reading apps to use instead, best rated first.

Top picks

  1. Substack

    Launch

    Discover & subscribe to independent writers, podcasters, and video creators.

  2. Are.na

    Launch

    A platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge. A thoughtful corner of the internet.

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    ArchiveBox

    Launch

    📸 Save the current page with the toolbar button, keyboard shortcut, or right-click menu. 🏛 Send URLs to your own ArchiveBox server to preserve websites for later. 🏷 Search, sort, tag, and manage your saved URLs in one place. ⚙ Automatically

    Self-hosted

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    RSSHub

    Launch

    Easy to use, and extensible RSS feed aggregator capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything ranging from social media to university departments. (Demo, Source Code) MIT Nodejs/Docker

    Self-hosted

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    Linkwarden

    Launch

    Collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters. Open-source, self-hostable bookmark manager with full-page archival.

    Self-hosted

  6. W

    Wallabag

    Launch

    Self-hosted web article archiving tool that extracts content for comfortable reading. Import from Pocket, Instapaper. Open source with API access.

    Self-hosted

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Koodo Reader

A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for…

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Readest

Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader

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Fluent Reader

Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI

Launch
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MediaMTX

Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read

Launch
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C

Calibre Web

Browse, read and download eBooks using an existing Calibre database

Launch
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Kavita

Cross-platform e-book/manga/comic/pdf server and web reader

Launch
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MdBook

Create books with Markdown using Rust

Launch
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BookWyrm

Join a federated social reading platform where you can track books

Launch
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B

Boring Report

News by AI - Information Without the Noise

Launch
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GlassWire

Personal Firewall & Network Monitor

Launch
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Hacker News Books

Top Hacker News Book Recommendations in All Categories (all time)

Launch
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Komga

Media server for comics/mangas/BDs

Launch
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Koreader

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB

Launch
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C

Calibre Web Automated

All-in-one solution, combining the modern lightweight web UI

Launch
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7

7-min

Positively Impacting Your Health

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arXiv Vanity

Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages

Launch
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B

Beelinereader

BeeLine Reader's award-winning technology helps readers stay focused for longer

Launch
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B

Blogosphere

The frontpage of the indie web

Launch
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Hacker Book

Community, All the HN Belong to You! 2006

Launch
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Hacker News Trends

Search & Chart Any Topic Over Time

Launch
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H

HTML for People

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field

Launch
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ScrollGuard

Block Reels, Shorts, TikTok & More

Launch
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NetNewsWire

RSS reader for macOS and iOS

Launch
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Feedbin

Feedbin is an RSS reader with a beautiful reading experience

Launch
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Quarkdown

Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books

Launch
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Omnivore

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution

Launch
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Armbrust American

Comprehensive Mask Testing

Launch
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B

BookStack

An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

Launch
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B

book.sv

Great book recommendations

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DevFreeBooks

A collection of free books for devs

Launch
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Feed me up, Scotty!

RSS feeds for arbitrary websites, using CSS selectors

Launch
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Haven

Haven is a new way of sharing things on the internet

Launch
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HN Update

Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

Launch
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Paper HN

Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

Launch
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TechYaks

The Best Software Tech Talks Ever, Ranked By Techyaks Score

Launch
42
T

Trails

Thematic links across books, automatically discovered by Claude

Launch
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Stump

A fast, free and open source comics, manga and digital book server

Launch
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S

Selfoss

New multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

Launch
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Librum

The Librum client application

Launch
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0x.tools

X-Ray vision for Linux systems

Launch
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Anfractuosity

Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind

Launch
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Byte

A visual archive

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Crafting Interpreters

A handbook for making programming languages

Launch
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Forty News

Real-time news. Delayed forty years

Launch

About Free Programming Books

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Free Programming Books

Freely available programming books

Free Programming Books is a long-running list of free learning resources for programmers, kept by the Free Ebook Foundation on GitHub. It gathers freely available books, courses, interactive tutorials, podcasts, screencasts and problem sets, sorted by subject and by programming language, and in many spoken languages besides English. Everything listed is free to read, and the list is built by contributors who add and fix links through pull requests. A separate search site lets you search the whole list by title or topic. It is one of the most starred repositories on GitHub and a common starting point for learning a new language for free.

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Price
Free
Made by
EbookFoundation
Category
Reading
Website
github.com/ebookfoundation/free-programming-books