Books & archives
Open Library
openlibrary.org
Books & archivesfree
Catalog and lending arm of the Internet Archive — useful for finding which editions exist and where.
Import into NotebookLM
- 1Copy the link above (or a specific page from the site).
- 2In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
- 3Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.
For public-domain books, download the Plain Text file and upload it — the 500,000-words-per-source limit fits most novels whole. ePub uploads are supported too.
More books & archives sources
- Project Gutenberg75,000+ public-domain books. Grab the Plain Text UTF-8 edition for the cleanest import.
- Internet ArchiveBooks, historical documents, magazines and archived websites — much of it downloadable as text or PDF.
- Standard EbooksCarefully typeset public-domain ePubs — a cleaner starting point than raw scans for literature notebooks.
- WikisourceTranscribed historical texts, speeches and primary documents, page-linked and citable.