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| Thread ID: 139439 | 2015-05-01 05:00:00 | Free Ebook Sites | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 1399793 | 2015-05-01 05:00:00 | Hi All. Does anybody use or know of safe sites to download books from? I realise that a lot of books on offer are quite old and/or out of copyright. The library Pukapuka service is unreliable at the moment. Possibly due to congestion on broadband. Thanks. PJ |
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| 1399794 | 2015-05-01 05:25:00 | gutenburg press? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1399795 | 2015-05-01 05:33:00 | gutenburg press? Got some Thanks. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1399796 | 2015-05-01 08:21:00 | Goodreads.com has some as well. Some are out of copyright. Some are fan fiction and given away. | psycik (12851) | ||
| 1399797 | 2015-05-01 11:07:00 | Kobo have free books for an e-reader. I am not sure which e-reader you have, Amazon have free ones for Kindle as well. Both of those sites are safe. | Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1399798 | 2015-05-01 11:44:00 | i use the website with the sailing ship on the front page. | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1399799 | 2015-05-01 18:24:00 | If you look at this thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/showthread.php?139229-Can-this-price-be-right) I got a couple of good site recommendations. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1399800 | 2015-05-01 22:45:00 | ebooks.adelaide.edu.au mebooks.co.nz (This site has many free NZ books of historic significance. Select NZ Electronic Text Centre under the Publisher drop down menu to see them). Or, you can go to nzetc.victoria.ac.nz to get the NZ books. wiki.mobileread.com (worth looking here for guidance to ebook sites). http://www.mobileread.com/ (has a forum you can join that has heaps of free books that are out of copyright. They are often in different formats from which you can choose, though Calibre can usually sort that out whatever you get). http://www.gutenberg.org/ (I use this as a last resort, because their formats are often crappy and not as easy to read as a professionally laid out book). http://inkmesh.com/ is a search engine to find free ebooks. I don't know whether it is legit or not, and I haven't used it. Most of the above sites deal with ebooks that are out of copyright - if you want to get free contemporary works, you will have to go to the dark side of the internet. Amazon (Kindle that is) often have very cheap copies of older books, for $1 or $2, and they are usually better produced than Project Gutenberg, so it is worth checking there even though they won't be free. An example is John Mulgan's "Report on Experience", which is $1.59 at Kindle. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1399801 | 2015-05-01 23:00:00 | PJ, that reference above to "wiki.mobileread.com needs amending, but PressF1 is refusing to let me edit the post itself as I am out of time. The best thing is to go to www.mobileread.com/ as noted above, and you can then access the Wiki and the Forum (links are at the top of the page). The Wiki actually has many useful sections, not just the section noted above. You may get brain freeze when you first look at the list of sites for accessing e-books... I think you have to sign up to the Forum to post, but you can read it as a non-member IIRC). |
John H (8) | ||
| 1399802 | 2015-05-02 05:08:00 | What type of eReader do you have? Feedbooks sell ebooks and have free public domain ones, i have found that they are a lot better formatted in general than a number of the other sites As for recommendations i have been reading a lot of the old Charlie Chan books in fact anything by the author of those books. The antiquated language or idioms in some of the old books can be inadvertently humorous, I just finished reading one recently where the character had been "making love" to another mans wife, which actually meant flirting (rather chastely too) |
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