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Ebooks projects on GitHub

Collections, managers, and resources around electronic books.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Ebooks projects on GitHub are free-programming-books (399.2K stars), legado (47.1K stars) and pandoc (46.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 11 Ebooks repositories with 630.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was free-programming-books, with +119 stars in a day.

11Projects

630.8KStars in total

+189Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+119

free-programming-books

EbookFoundation/free-programming-books · ★ 399.2K

It is a huge, community-maintained list of freely available programming books and other learning resources in many human languages; it started as a clone of a famous StackOverflow list and has grown to become one of GitHub's most popular repositories.

+32

awesome-english-ebooks

hehonghui/awesome-english-ebooks · ★ 38.2K

A repository of direct download links for English-language magazines - The Economist (with audio), The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Wired - available in epub, mobi, and pdf formats, updated weekly for free.

+10

calibre

kovidgoyal/calibre · ★ 26.2K

calibre is an open-source e-book manager: it can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books in all the major formats, and it also talks to e-book reader devices.

legado

gedoor/legado · ★ 47.1K

Legado (阅读) is an e-book reader app written in Kotlin, presented as 'Legado 3.0 Book Reader with powerful controls & full functions'.

The all-time top

11 projects · by stars

#1 · EbookFoundation/free-programming-books
free-programming-books
It is a huge, community-maintained list of freely available programming books and other learning resources in many human languages; it started as a clone of a famous StackOverflow list and has grown to become one of GitHub's most popular repositories.
399.2K
#2 · gedoor/legado
legado
Legado (阅读) is an e-book reader app written in Kotlin, presented as 'Legado 3.0 Book Reader with powerful controls & full functions'.
47.1K
#3 · jgm/pandoc
pandoc
Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting documents from one markup format to another, plus the command-line tool built on top of it — a universal markup converter.
46.6K

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awesome-english-ebooks
38.2Khehonghui/awesome-english-ebooks · CSS
A repository of direct download links for English-language magazines - The Economist (with audio), The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Wired - available in epub, mobi, and pdf formats, updated weekly for free.
5
awesome-piracy
26.9KIgglybuff/awesome-piracy · HTML
A curated list of piracy and warez links — VPNs, torrent trackers, streaming sites, Plex and Kodi tools, ebooks and much more — built from the author's years of saved bookmarks, Reddit posts and GitHub stars.
6
calibre
26.2Kkovidgoyal/calibre · Python
calibre is an open-source e-book manager: it can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books in all the major formats, and it also talks to e-book reader devices.
7
books
20.3Kprogramthink/books
A curated collection of e-book recommendations maintained by the Chinese blogger known as 'programthink' (编程随想), spanning many academic disciplines, with each entry pointing to a download source.
8
CS-Book
11.6Kiamshuaidi/CS-Book
A curated Chinese-language collection of popular computer science e-books, kept as a GitHub repo with about 11.6k stars — a go-to reference for CS study materials.
9
Game-Programmer-Study-Notes
10.1KQianMo/Game-Programmer-Study-Notes
This is a personal collection of study notes from a game programmer's career, covering computer graphics, real-time rendering, GPU programming, design patterns, and software engineering. It works like an enhanced blog, condensing and summarizing classic industry books and technical topics.
10
grimmory
4.5Kgrimmory-tools/grimmory · Java
Grimmory is a self-hosted digital library for managing and reading your own ebooks, comics, and audiobooks, with built-in reading, metadata lookup, and progress sync.
11
oryx
157wmahfoudh/oryx · Rust
Oryx is a fast, native desktop app for reading and writing markdown, with code editing, ebook and comic viewing, and PDF export, built for Linux, Windows and macOS.