I haven't "seen" ATDrake recently. I do hope that he is well and will return to this forum before long.
I think that we usually depended on ATDrake to post the
free book of the month from the University of Chicago Press. Since he hasn't been around lately--at least in this forum--I'll go ahead and post it this time, at least. But, you do have the whole month of April in which to download it.
It's
Palace of Books, by Roger Grenier. Here's the blurb:
Why read? Why write? Our free e-book for April is a tour through some of the books in Roger Grenier’s well-stocked library, a conversation about some of the grand topics of literature: love, memory, death, and always, writing. Wearing his erudition lightly, Grenier intersperses passages from his favorite writers: Chekhov, Baudelaire, Proust, James, Kafka, Mansfield, and many others. Grenier’s elegant prose and wry humor are exquisitely rendered by translator Alice Kaplan.
Getting the monthly
freebie from the University of Chicago Press is easy peasy. Just go to
this webpage, put in your email address, and they'll send a link for the ebook right back to you. You'll have a choice of reading it online or downloading it. There are a plethora of readers to which they give you the option to download. if you want to download to your PC or Mac, it will be an .acsm file, that can be opened with Adobe Digital Editions.