PDFs For Free

Update December 10, 2013: There is an updated version. Click here for it.

Note that some of these will be scans of zines once in print — that’s history! All of these are legitimately free. No piracy. And all of these links lead to a website where you will find the download link. Direct-download links tend to mess people up.

Art/Design
Note: Some layouts are double-page, requiring landscape mode to view
PDF-Mags.com — list of art and design magazines
fanart magazine — gorgeous illustrations by fans
Pandemia fanzine — Spanish
Destructed — art magazine
Burlesque fanzine — Spanish
Drexter magazine — art & culture
Vektorika magazine — Vector Graphic Design
REVOLUTIONART International Magazine — graphic arts, videos, music, modeling, and world trends
FF3300 — art, design
Woosta magazine — artists
Five To Nine magazine — art, design
VIZIOMAG — art, design
Veer catalog — yep, a catalog; try it.
BEAST magazine — 2001-2002, design, typog­ra­phy, art, illus­tra­tion, pho­tog­ra­phy
DIF magazine — Portugal, design, photography
Multilink magazine — design, art
BATTERIEnext magazine — design; look carefully for PDFs
Picame magazine — 2008-2011 design, choose PDF version (others are Flash)
GizMag — art, design, interviews
Castle magazine — design, illustration
bedifferent magazine — design
Kromag — design, interviews
Brain Zone magazine — art, illustration
Scrapture magazine — Japan, design, photography
TXTnein magazine — art, photography
Phase magazine — art, design
Blur magazine — photography
Salissures — international street art, graffiti
Linked magazine — Spanish, art
Visual Streets magazine — street art, graffiti
Font magazine — typography and design
And I Still Miss You — photography, illustration
pict*re magazine – photography
ARTiSTiK magazine — art and design
Develop 3D — product design and development, registration required for free PDFs
aahsome magazine — “A platform for the indie Indian, showcasing creativity in different forms”
bitFUUL magazine — art and photography
Proteus magazine — art, design, photography
Daheim magazine — 2005-2010, art, photography
Design&Life magazine — art, design, photography
VernissageTV magazine — art, photography
Natural Selection magazine — art
Variant magazine — arts and culture, from Scotland
Render Out! magazine — Spanish, 3D character modeling for film and more
CG Chosen Robots magazine #6 — free sample
CG Chosen Environments magazine #5 — free sample
The Most Beautiful CG Girls magazine #2– free sample
CG Chosen Monsters & Creatures magazine #4 — free sample
Trash magazine — street art, graffiti
Pornofritti magazine — street art, graffiti
RideTheBeast — street art, graffiti; PDF starts with issue 4
Ursonate Fanzine — Spanish, art, music, culture
Yuck ‘n Yum — illustration, text
On|Off fanzine — fashion, photography
Foto DNG — Spanish, photography, photographic hardware and software

Books
Crimetime — crime fiction magazine, free PDFs start with issue 51
Deadly Pleasures — mystery fanzine, issue 54 is free

Comics
Fantastic Fanzine 11 1970 — print scan, link inside text at end
The Collector 28 1973 — print scan,link inside text at end
Charlton Bullseye 4, 5: 1976 — print scan,link inside text at end
Anomaly 4: November 1972 — print scan, link inside text at end
Phantacea 1977 — print scan, link inside text at end
Infinity 2 1970 — print scan, link inside text at end
Anomaly 1 1969 — print scan, link inside text at end
Phase 1971 — print scan, link inside text at end
Spasm 1973 — print scan, link inside text at end
Fan Spectacular 1981 — print scan, link inside text at end
Hot Stuf’ 1 Summer 1974 — print scan, link inside text at end
Abyss 1 — print scan, link inside text at end
Mindworks 1 1974 — print scan, link inside text at end
Venture 5 1976 — print scan, link inside text at end
Jim Steranko Portfolio 1970 — print scan, link inside text at end
Reality 2 1971 — print scan, link inside text at end
Epitaph 1 1975 — print scan, link inside text at end
Anomaly 3 1971 — print scan, link inside text at end
Voice of Comicdom 17 1971 — print scan, link inside text at end
CPL 11 1974 — print scan, link inside text at end
Always Comes Twilight 1 1976 — print scan, link inside text at end
Comic Crusader 10 1970 — print scan, link inside text at end
Fantastic Fanzine 12 1970 — print scan, link inside text at end
Nimbus 3 Sept 1977 — print scan, link inside text at end
Seraphim 5 1970 — print scan, link inside text at end
The Star Slayers — print scan, link inside text at end
Infinity 5 Summer 1973 — print scan, link inside text at end
Comic-Con Annual — comics fandom
KarmaComics fanzine — Spanish, fan-produced comics
Boule de Gomme fanzine — French, fan-produced comics; gorgeous stuff
Nova — Portuguese, from Brazil, comic book
SPACE Anthology fanzine — 2010, 2011, 2012 issues available, fan-made comics

Games – Screen
360Zine — Xbox 360 fanzine, free sub available
PS3Zine — PlayStation 3 fanzine, free sub available
PCGZine — PC games fanzine, free sub available
MMOZine — mass multiplayer game online fanzine, free sub available
League of Fans — League of Legends fanzine
Paradox — video game fanzine published from 1992 to 1996
exp. minus infinity — games fanzine
Digital Press — videogames fanzine
ReVival — English, from France, homebrew on retro consoles, sample issue available
Games Tribune — Spanish, gorgeous magazine, click on cover for download link on next screen (“Revista Games Tribune número ## sin comprimir”)

Games – Role-Playing
TrollZine fanzine — Tunnels & Trolls RPG (issues one, two, three, four)
Various PDFs for the Talislanta RPG
Tamar, 4th Edition Unofficial Fanzine — Talislanta RPG
Third Imperium fanzine — Traveller RPG, print scans
d6 Magazine — Open D6 RPG fanzine
Warp Rift — magazine for Battlefleet Gothic
Into the Deep — Traveler RPG fanzine
OD&DITIES — original Dungeons and Dragons fanzine
Chronopia World — various Chronopia fanzines

Music
L-Ektrica fanzine — music, English and Italian versions
Sonic Death fanzine
It’s Alive! fanzine — UK music and arts
Heavy Metal PT fanzine — Portuguese
Adrenalin fanzine — heavy metal rock, PDFs of print zine are free
List of classic Metal print fanzines — scanned PDFs
Rockin’ Bones fanzine issues 1-7 – The Cramps band, print scans
A variety of UK punk rock print scan zines
Dirt fanzine 1978 — punk rock print scans
CMS Productions — Christian Musician and Worship Musician magazines (hit Current Issues button)
Documentation of the Music Underground, Before the Internet — PDFs of musician interviews
KC-INFO — punk rock fanzine
Rhodeways/Terra Incognita — the Happy Rhodes fanzine, 1994-1998
Archive of 1990s Rave zines
The Burning Up Times — Stranglers band fanzine
Punks Is Hippies — print scans, 1980s punk rock fanzines
Fan the Fire magazine — music, games, style
THE MICK — from “the longest-running Goth and Post-Punk writer in the world”
United Reggae magazine — Reggae worldwide
Eartrip magazine — jazz, improvised music and the outer reaches
EleKtrogene fanzine — French, electronic music
Riot on the Rocks — rock music fanzine
Beastiemania — scroll down for Blister Fanzine, print scan of 1981 fanzine
Indecent Exposures Fanzine — print scan, early Canadian punk rock fanzine
Fanatico Fanzine — German, pop, punk, bubblegum, rock music
Schizo Fanzine — DIY punk rock fanzine
Bristol Archive Records — print scans, various music fanzines
The Spooks Book — fanzine of The Spooks band
Vox — 1980-1983, print scans, punk, electronic and progressive music, underground poets, performance artists and fringe entities
Garage — music, issue one, two, three, four, five, six

SF/F (print/movie/TV)
eFanzines.com: science fiction fanzines on-line — huge list with browse by cover
Plotka fanzine — SF, issue 26 begins PDF version
Infinite Frontiers: Star Trek fanzine PDFs
The Eyepiece fanzine — Doctor Who
Fish Fingers and Custard — Doctor Who fanzine
The Hub — Torchwood fanzine
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey — Doctor Who fanzine
Time Space Visualiser (TSV) — Doctor Who fanzine
Whotopia — Doctor Who fanzine
Myth Makers: Retrospective — Doctor Who fanfic previously published between 1991 and 2001
Peon — print scans, published 1948 through 1957
Leer — print scans, published 1956 or 1957
Argentus — Hugo-nonimated fanzine
The Collins Mausoleum — Dark Shadows fanzine
File 770 — fanzine, issue 159
eFNAC — fanzine
Futurian Observer — print scans, Australian fanzine, 1940-1942
Chunga — fanzine
Critical Wave — the European SF&F Review
The Drink Tank — fanzine
Prolapse and Relapse — fanzine
SFcrowsnest — fanzine
Southern Enclave — prints scans, Star Wars 1984-2000 letterzine
Steampunk Magazine — steampunk!
Planetary Stories — four issues of pulp magazine available
Some Fantastic — fanzine
Boldly Gone — print scans of three 1970s Star Trek zines, two of which are erotic
The Tides of Time — Oxford University Doctor Who Society

Sports
TAL (Tiocfaidh Ar La) fanzine — Celtic football, back issues in PDF
Under The Boardwalk — the original FC United of Manchester fanzine, sold-out print issues are free as PDFs
REDNews — free sample of Manchester United fanzine
Fossa Dei Leoni — Italian, print scan, fanzine for Associazione Calcio Milan football team
Leeds United Fanzines — print scans

Religion
Jehovah’s Witnesses — various PDFs
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — various PDFs

Other
Yipe! fanzine — costumes, cosplay
Public Collectors — list of different topic PDFs, some of historic value
The Pulp Magazines Project — print scans of various pulp magazines
Scooter-Forums — three odd miscellany (music?) fanzines
Re:Porter — Canada, Porter Airlines magazine
Spike magazine — 600 pages, interviews, features And reviews
The Invisible College — New Age
Annals of Improbable Research magazine — lo-res PDFs are free
Ovi magazine — 2004-2010, politics, news
Indie Travel Podcast Travel Magazine — travel
LEDs Magazine — by email, lighting technology
Agricultural Research Magazine — farming, from the USDA
Five Dials magazine — content varies
RC Soaring Digest — radio-controlled model flying
Coastal Services — bimonthly magazine for the nation’s coastal resource managers, from the NOAA
Connection Magazine — New Age, health
Virginia Tech magazine — the school
Federations magazine — what’s new in federalism worldwide
Rails magazine — Ruby on Rails programming
Findings magazine — general medical science, National Institute of General Medical Services
Traditional Roofing Magazine — home improvement, with other roof-related PDFs
Direct Action magazine — 1996-2009, worker and political activism, Solidarity Federation, UK
The Proto Labs Journal — product prototyping, rapid injection molding and CNC machining
Stanford Business magazine — each issue has a free PDF, click cover for link, from Stanford University
Lumpen magazine — a few issues are free PDFs
Carolina Public Health magazine — health, from U of NC
Anarchist Voices magazine — politics, anarchism
GP Week — motor racing
Convergence — magazine of engineering and the sciences at UC Santa Barbara, click covers for download link
Focus newsletter — from the Institute for Research on Poverty
Feminist Africa — Africa, feminist political studies journal
International Alliance of Women — text newsletter
Society for the Study of American Women Writers newsletter — twice each year
New Moon Girls magazine — free sample issue
How to Publish a Fanzine — Mike Gunderloy of Factsheet Five fame
Commodore Free — fanzine for Commodore Computer owners
LeXo fanzine — French, by a lesbian in Algeria
LA 13/14 fanzine — Spanish, various subjects
Fallopian Falafel — Jewish feminist zine, in English, a few issues are free
Firemail and It’s Just This Little Chromium Switch Here — Firesign Theater fanzine
Four-Alarm FIRESIGNal — Firesign Theater fanzine
Firezine — Firesign Theater fanzine
Fanzines Plus — collection of erotic Star Trek (K/S) and Wiseguy fan fiction
Westerns… All’Italiana! — spaghetti western fanzine

Science
National Academies Press — free PDFs (see press release)

Special
MartView — uses an app to view massaged free PDFs. See library.
Issuu — many PDF magazines and fanzines I didn’t list here because they are available there, registration required
Liga Fanzine — Brazil, Portuguese-language fanzines