You can use a caliber extension called DeDRM to remove the DRM from ebooks your local library provides. As a bonus having active members helps them secure funding to provide valuable community services.
That being said I don't browse for books, I decide I want to read X and then get bummed when my local library doesn't have it. The shadow library basically has everything, and yiu can see which instances are up at https://open-slum.org/
Usenet via Evan Buss's Openbooks
lots of useful posts above but
not sci fi so much but Project Gutenberg has lots of old stuff, by that I mean Dickens, Joseph Konrad etal
my gfs currently reading Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" from there and loves it.
but for Sci Fi there's Wells etc
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=h.+g.+wells
and they do have a science fiction category
If you use Soulseek, you could do a search for a generic word and then filter it to .epub files and see what it finds
Baen free library. You want SciFi? Baen has DRM free books before amazon existed.
It's not piracy but https://freeread.de/@RGLibrary/ERBurroughs/ERBurroughs.html
I would suggest, unsolicited as it is, to visit some place in the world, and leave the internet behind for a couple of weeks.
Local library, best free source of ebooks I've found out there, and it's perfectly legal.
annas archive is very nice
All the best shadow libraries
fmhy dot net
if you've got the spare time to wait for the open sign ups on myanonamouse, they've got an extremely extensive collection of rather rare ebooks.
if not, annasarchive and the sources on fmhy are very useful.
Z-library has a 10/day limit, but is a neat source to find books.
the electronic library. for suggestions about titles, I usually browse the locus and the nebula prizes
Torrents are sometimes organized under an author's name for their collected works
Archive.org has a bunch of public domain/commons books in e-reader formats
MAM is great if you can get in
Torrent. Go on your favourite torrent site, google your favourite author, download their entire collected works.
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