07-17-2010, 12:56 PM
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Bought a nook today, told how to search free books at B & N
Another rep told the clerk to use $0.00 instead of 0.00 and sure enough that worked. I just tried it at home and it returned 956,012 free books on their site. |
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07-17-2010, 01:00 PM
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Good tip, thanx!
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07-17-2010, 10:39 PM
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Techno-Junkie
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Don't be fooled by this... a lot of the titles are excerpts and partial books, not complete novels. Just sayin'...
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07-17-2010, 10:49 PM
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Also, most of those "free" books are DRM-restricted.
If you want really free books (all of them gratis and most of them libre), here's my standard cut-and-paste list, which I really need to park somewhere and link from my .sig or something: Right here on MobileRead is a good start -- the ebooks are built by hand by MobileRead members, and in my opinion they have the best formatting. There are a lot of other good ebook sites out there. Here's my personal free ebook source list: Public Domain MobileRead - best formatting, limited selection (hand-built by MobileRead members) ManyBooks - PG scraper, but sometimes has books from other sources, good formatting Feedbooks - mostly scrapes PG, improves formatting Project Gutenberg - the granddaddy of them all, phenomenal selection Munseys - painful to use, but has books nobody else does the Internet Archive - generally only the scans are readable Google Books - most of the time, what's good isn't free, and what's free isn't good Free non-PD Baen Free Library - amazing selection; also, they will tempt you into buying books 5th Imperium - Baen CD collections Other Things Search: Inkmesh. Sadly, it's not a very comprehensive search engine, at least when it comes to free ebooks - it misses a lot of them - but as far as I know, it's the only ebook-specific one out there. If you're using free ebooks, it's only right to give something back: proofread a page a day at the Distributed Proofreading Project. P.S. I almost forgot: get calibre. Its support forum is a few boards down from here.
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07-17-2010, 11:05 PM
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Open Library - opt "only show e-books" does a lot - and is growing fast.
More than a page?  check FreeLiterature.
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