Where do you get your free classics for your e-reader?
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1clamairy
Up until today I've gotten mine from Amazon because I have a Paperwhite, so it's very convenient. I'm reading a book about Dickens, so I was looking to snag a copy of Martin Chuzzlewit. The copy they have in English* only has 400 pages, while the German version has over 800. (The file size is twice the size, too.) The French version is 500+ pages, but it's listed as Part 1. So I didn't grab it. Has anyone run into anything like this before?
* https://smile.amazon.com/Martin-Chuzzlewit-Charles-Dickens-ebook/dp/B0084BZU48/
* https://smile.amazon.com/Martin-Chuzzlewit-Charles-Dickens-ebook/dp/B0084BZU48/
2Bookmarque
I've always used Project Gutenburg and occasionally Manybooks.
https://manybooks.net/
https://www.gutenberg.org/
https://manybooks.net/
https://www.gutenberg.org/
3pgmcc
>1 clamairy:
The majority of free books on my Kindle would be from Gutenburg. There are a few Tor give-aways that someone living in your part of the world sent me a link for. :-)
The majority of free books on my Kindle would be from Gutenburg. There are a few Tor give-aways that someone living in your part of the world sent me a link for. :-)
6clamairy
>5 gilroy: How did I not know that Google had free classics? Probably because they are ePubs, and up until recently you could only read those with the Kindle Fire. But now... EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED!
Thanks, >2 Bookmarque:, >3 pgmcc: & >4 mnleona:. I have used Gutenberg in the distant past.
Thanks, >2 Bookmarque:, >3 pgmcc: & >4 mnleona:. I have used Gutenberg in the distant past.
7MrsLee
I have had both success and failure with Amazon classics. One I got had been photographed or something and the pictures were tiny, impossible to read because you couldn't adjust the size. I recently bought (1.99) the ghost stories of M.R. James, and one story lost text between one page and another. I forgot to try adjusting the font size there, but found it on Guttenberg and read it there on my phone.
9jillmwo
If we're talking about 19th century classics like Dickens, I'd usually go check Project Gutenberg first. They tend to have a variety of formats -- everything from the old mobi format used by the early Kindle e-readers to the more recent HTML5. Once I know what's available (and/or assuming I've forgotten how to side load a Gutenberg file onto the Kindle), then I'd go over to see if I could get the freebie version from Amazon.
Google Books is a bit more problematic; some of theirs work well on tablets but not on dedicated ereaders.
There's also the Internet Archive.
Finally, there's the Hathi Trust for materials that might be characterized as rather historically arcane. I was doing research on Mother Bickerdyke a few years back and Hathi Trust was the only online source for biographies of her.
Google Books is a bit more problematic; some of theirs work well on tablets but not on dedicated ereaders.
There's also the Internet Archive.
Finally, there's the Hathi Trust for materials that might be characterized as rather historically arcane. I was doing research on Mother Bickerdyke a few years back and Hathi Trust was the only online source for biographies of her.