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Originally Posted by issybird
I don't count public domain as freebies, even though they're, well, free.  When I download a pd book, it's because I actively choose to read it, not because I've been seduced by the price. For "freebie" I tend to read "self-pubbed junk."
I love the classics, finished one pd book on Thursday and immediately started another and I'm concurrently reading the copyright version of a pd classic for the book club this month. I'd pay for public domain if it weren't free, and that's the acid test. Seriously, if you wouldn't pay a few bucks for a freebie, then you shouldn't acquire it for nothing. |
The only free books I have are a few classics which I have either already read or expect to read soon. I figure the public domain books found on Gutenberg or MobileRead are out there and available and when I am ready to sit down and read another, I will download it.
My main source of "free" books is the library, and I have to read those books before the expiration date, so they can't pile up unread.