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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
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Indeed -- I already have too many public domain books! I see that a lot people here are eager to recommend various public domain resources regardless of that fact, though. Ah well! Thank you for these links, they look great.
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Originally Posted by Difflugia
I'm also a big fan of Google Books. There are all kinds of things that aren't popular enough to make it to Project Gutenberg, but that are still fun (dozens of cookbooks from the 18th and 19th centuries, for example). The advanced search page isn't straightforward to find, so you might want to bookmark it. After your search, click on "Free Google Books" on the left. The big downside is that the OCR is sometimes pretty bad (especially for older books), but it's not a huge deal if you're OK reading PDF scans. And who knows? Your new favorite Brunswick Stew recipe might need squirrel. |
That sounds enormously entertaining! I don't want to read OCR scans (that was why I found this website in my search for a Gutenberg alternative), so I'll look at the Advance Search options in Amazon and Barnes & Noble, but I may go without looking up the squirrel stews for now!
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Originally Posted by wawasteele
Welcome to MobilRead. I have found it a valuable resource for all things ebook and audiobook related.
As far as a library goes, you don't have to be a regular patron. Check and see if you local library has an online book source. The most common is Overdrive. You don't have to go to the library after you get a library card. Most of those have to be done in person, but there are some exceptions. After you have a card, all the borrowing is done online. After a fairly short learning curve, you have opened up a lot of current books for free borrowing.
As for the 'Deals, Freebies, and Resources' sub-forum, look at the listing of the posts. For example, if you like mysteries, each month a new thread is started. In Nov, the mystery thread is titled "Free/Bargain Mystery/Suspense/Thriller November 2013". When you come to MobileRead, just look for that thread and read only the most recent posts. The deals expire quickly, so there is no need to read the entire thread. There are also threads for non-fiction, youth, romance, scifi, and probably others. Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
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I'm
really not a library patron; it was one of my main motivations for purchasing an ereader. I don't like giving books back at the end of my time with them. That being said, thank you for explaining the sub-forum. I had been under the impression that I'd have to go through the entire threads to find something worth reading. It's all a bit higgledy-piggledy!