News & Reading Web Apps

Y Combinator's link aggregator for technology and startups: a deliberately plain interface where ranking rewards intellectual curiosity and the comment threads often outvalue the articles. Free.

RSS reader for following websites, blogs and publications in organized feeds with a clean reading interface, keyboard navigation and mobile sync. Free tier follows up to 100 sources.

Read-it-later service that strips articles to clean, adjustable text and syncs them for offline reading, with highlights, notes and speed-reading. Free tier covers core saving and reading.

The free encyclopedia anyone can edit: tens of millions of articles across 300+ languages, maintained by a volunteer community and the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. No ads, no paywall.

Nonprofit digital library preserving the web (Wayback Machine), plus millions of books, audio recordings, films and software — including emulated vintage games playable in the browser. Free.

The oldest digital library: over 75,000 public-domain ebooks — the classics of world literature — free to read online or download in EPUB and Kindle formats, no registration required.

Volunteer-produced editions of public-domain classics with professional typography, modern formatting, careful proofreading and lovely covers — free ebooks that feel like commercial releases. New titles are released continuously and everything downloads free in every major format.

An open, editable catalog aiming for a page for every book ever published, with millions of titles borrowable digitally through the Internet Archive's lending program. Free.

Reading tracker and recommendation engine built around moods, pacing and content warnings rather than star ratings alone — a community-favorite Goodreads alternative. Free core features.

Publishing platform for newsletters and podcasts where writers own their subscriber lists — read thousands of free publications or subscribe to paid ones, with a reader app and comments.