About e-book.au

e-book.au is a free, open library of Australian writing that has passed into the public domain. It is built and hosted in Brisbane.

Principles

Rights first. Nothing goes up without a complete, public rights record.
Australian-hosted, lean and green. The site is plain static files on a small Australian server. There's no database, no tracking, no ads and no third-party scripts or fonts. Pages are compressed and cached so they use as little energy and data as possible.
Nobody left behind. The site works without JavaScript, on slow connections and old devices, and with screen readers. You can download books for offline reading.

Semantic HTML with landmarks, headings and a skip link. Every function works by keyboard.
Light and dark themes, which follow your system setting by default. Colour contrast meets WCAG AA.
A font switch: the standard serif, Atkinson Hyperlegible (designed for low-vision readers) and OpenDyslexic. All fonts are hosted here under the SIL Open Font License.
Adjustable text size in the reading view. Your settings stay in your browser, and nothing is sent to us.
EPUB files include a navigable table of contents and accessibility metadata.

If something doesn't work for you, please tell us so we can fix it.

The OPDS catalogue, catalogue JSON and each book's rights.json are free to reuse (CC0).