🔖 Useful free websites

Over 70,000 free ebooks — the entire public-domain canon, from Dickens and Austen to obscure Victorian travelogues. Download them as EPUB, Kindle, or plain text with no account, no paywall, and no catch.

Takes your current car insurance bill and shops it against other providers to see whether you are being overcharged. It found me $1,300 last year, which is a stupid amount of money to have been handing over for no reason.

Free lessons on very nearly everything: math from counting to calculus, plus science, history, economics, and test prep. The quality is genuinely excellent — this is not "good for free," it is just good.

Borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your local library using nothing but your library card. Completely free and completely legal, and most library catalogues are far bigger than people expect.

A note-taking app that doubles as a place to organise your brain — notes, checklists, documents, and simple databases in one workspace. The free plan covers personal use comfortably.

Free movies and TV, streamed live or on demand and paid for by ads. Yes, there are ads — but there are also genuine gems buried in the channel list if you go looking.