Is manybooks.net safe?
https://manybooks.net/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
ManyBooks is a long-running free eBook library with clean security checks and some complaints about its ads
ManyBooks is a free eBook library whose domain is more than 22 years old. It asks visitors for donations to support free literature. Our security checks found no malware or threat warnings, and the site lists a contact email on its own domain. A visitor review complains about pop-up ads and slow pages. That is a nuisance rather than evidence of fraud, so the site is rated Low Risk.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 80/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 5 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateOne customer complaint on a public review site: "Ads pop up, they are extremely slow and just not worth the hassle of sitting there waiting for pages to come up and having to deal with the Amazon ad blinking…"
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain has been registered for over two decades.
- SupportsSecurity engines and Safe Browsing reported no detections.
- SupportsContact email on the site's own domain (lisa.clifford@manybooks.net).
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
- SupportsLinks to 6 social profiles.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
ManyBooks is a free eBook library whose domain is more than 22 years old. It asks visitors for donations to support free literature. Our security checks found no malware or threat warnings, and the site lists a contact email on its own domain. A visitor review complains about pop-up ads and slow pages. That is a nuisance rather than evidence of fraud, so the site is rated Low Risk.
Clean technical checks and an established site
None of 93 security engines flagged the site, and the browser threat feed returned no warning. The connection is properly encrypted.
The domain has existed for about 8,300 days. The site gives a contact email on its own domain and links to six social profiles, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
What visitors report
One an independent review platform's reviewer said ads pop up, pages are extremely slow, and an Amazon ad blinks on and off. This describes an annoying experience, not stolen money or data.
An author who paid for a featured promotion slot reported about 200 downloads. They found the featured page hard to reach because it sat at the bottom of the home page. The main commercial prompts on the site are a donation request and a same-site signup.
Why the score is 80
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiEntertainment
- BitDefendereducation
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekercultural institutions
- Googlemedia_and_entertainment
- Sophosreference
- Xcitium Verdict Cloudblogs & wikis
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
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What the captured page showed
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What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
50,000+ Free eBooks in the Genres you Love | Manybooks
- Meta description
Great selection of modern and classic books waiting to be discovered. All free and available in most ereader formats.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Terms/termsRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
50,000+ Free eBooks in the Genres you Love | Manybooks
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The domain has been registered for over two decades.
- 02Security engines and Safe Browsing reported no detections.
- 03One customer complaint on a public review site: "Ads pop up, they are extremely slow and just not worth the hassle of sitting there waiting for pages to come up and having to deal with the Amazon ad blinking…"
Web research findings
Independent findings for manybooks.net, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- Trustpilotopen
"Ads pop up, they are extremely slow and just not worth the hassle of sitting there waiting for pages to come up and having to deal with the Amazon ad blinking on and off."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainmanybooks.net
- Redirects tomanybooks.net
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · clarity.ms
Domain Timeline
- Jan 2, 2004Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 22 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 19, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
manybooks.net has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (lisa.clifford@manybooks.net).
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for manybooks.net.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Microsoft Clarity
Payment providers the page loads
- PayPal
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One customer complaint on a public review site: "Ads pop up, they are extremely slow and just not worth the hassle of sitting there waiting for pages to come up and having to deal with the Amazon ad blinking…"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 19, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 19, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 19, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
ManyBooks is a long-running free eBook library with clean security checks and some complaints about its ads
ManyBooks is a free eBook library whose domain is more than 22 years old. It asks visitors for donations to support free literature. Our security checks found no malware or threat warnings, and the site lists a contact email on its own domain. A visitor review complains about pop-up ads and slow pages. That is a nuisance rather than evidence of fraud, so the site is rated Low Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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