OEAC Digital Library is an open-access library run by OEAC Network. It holds 15,000 books across 6 languages — including 1,251 in Pashto, Dari and Persian, with a dedicated Afghanistan studies collection.
Everything here is free to read. There is no paywall on the catalogue, no account wall in front of the reader, and no advertising. If a title is restricted, it says so on its own page before you do anything else.
The catalogue is free to browse and free to read online. Nobody is asked for a card to open a book.
Every imported item records its source and, where one exists, its licence. Items with no stated licence are flagged rather than quietly published as ours.
These languages are under-served on the open web, so they get priority in every daily import and in the catalogue layout.
No pop-ups, no interstitials, no autoplay. Premium books state their price plainly and are the exception, not the model.
Five independent axes, so a book can be found the way you actually think about it.
Four steps, no surprises.
Search by title or author, press Ctrl + K anywhere, or browse the five category axes.
Free titles open straight in the built-in reader. No plugin, no download, no waiting.
A free account saves your place, your favourites and your reading lists across devices.
Save a book for offline reading, or download the file once you are signed in.
Reading online is open to everyone. Downloading needs a free account, because downloads are logged and we want to be able to tell a rights-holder what was taken. A small number of Premium titles show a price, are ordered manually from your dashboard, and unlock once an administrator verifies the payment. Premium is the exception — almost the entire catalogue is free.
We publish public-domain works, openly licensed works, and material our contributors hold the rights to. Imported items record their source and licence. Where a source states no licence, we say so on the book page rather than implying a licence we cannot prove. If you believe something here should not be public, tell us and we will look at it promptly.
Send us the title, the author, the licence and a file. Works in Pashto, Dari or about Afghanistan are especially welcome, as are textbooks, poetry collections and government publications. We do not publish anything whose rights we cannot establish.
The counts on this page are read live from the catalogue database — 15,000 published books, 12,259 recorded reads and 7 downloads. Nothing here is a marketing figure.
Yes. Everything tagged Free can be read online and downloaded at no cost. A small number of titles are marked Premium because they were supplied under a licence that does not permit unlimited redistribution, or because the rights-holder set a price; those show the price clearly before you do anything.
Not to browse, and not to read online. You do need a free account to download a file or to keep your reading position — that is how progress and favourites follow you between your phone and your computer. It takes under a minute and needs only an email address.
Yes. Reading and downloading are separate permissions on every book. If a title allows online reading you can open it in the reader immediately, signed in or not.
A Premium book shows its price on the book page. You start an order from your dashboard, submit the payment reference, and an administrator verifies it. Once verified the book unlocks in your account. Nothing is charged automatically and no card details are stored on this site.
Yes — use the contact page and tell us the title, the author and the licence. We only publish material that is public domain, openly licensed, or that you hold the rights to. Works published in Pashto, Dari or about Afghanistan are especially welcome.
Around thirty of the original uploads are scanned documents with no text layer, so their titles could not be read automatically, and a few look like company paperwork rather than library books. Those are kept out of the public catalogue until a human confirms them, rather than being published with a guessed title.
They share a script and, in practice, a great deal of vocabulary — automatic detection cannot separate them reliably. Rather than mislabel one as the other, they are grouped as “Persian / Dari” and can be re-tagged individually from the editor dashboard.
OEAC Digital Library is a project of OEAC Network (https://www.oeacnetwork.com). The main site covers the wider work of the organisation; this library is its open-access reading and publishing arm.
15,000 books, 6 languages, nothing to pay. Or visit OEAC Network to see the wider work.