Project Gutenberg

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.

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.