Who Needs Amazon? Read for Free
Get that book your kid has to read for school or your college student has to read for a course online for free. Classic literature is widely available online, as dedicated volunteers and librarians have been scanning and posting thousands of volumes on websites worldwide. Which sites are easiest to use?
1) Wikisource - You must know by now we are big fans of Wikipedia, occasional controversies and factual problems notwithstanding. Wikisource is the virtual library portion of the Wiki-empire. Recent additions to Wikisource are right up the alley of college and high school students studying literature and the humanities: "The Mayor of Casterbridge," by Thomas Hardy, "Daisy Miller," by Henry James, and "Erewhon," by Samuel Butler.
2) Online Books Page - This is more of a directory than a repository, with links to more than 25,000 online books. It offers links to books in their holographic (that is, original format and design) format, especially good for students and scholars.
3) Want a good study guide to “Brave New World?” Go to Bibliomania which offers study guides to classic literature developed by final year and postgraduate literature students from top UK and US universities.
4) Gutenberg Project is the granddaddy of all online book projects. It has continually evolved, and now permits downloads of entire CD-length collections via BitTorrent. Site data indicate that more than 3 million books were downloaded from Gutenberg in the last 30 days. Tops in the last week? “Manual of Surgery,” by Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson, with 4,597 downloads. According to book uploader Laura Wisewell, the online edition was produced just after World War I and contains accounts of gangrene, tuberculosis and syphilis. “Read it and be grateful that you live in a time and country with antibiotics,” she says. “In this book, amputation is the answer to everything.”
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Prefer a hard copy? Checkout PaperBackSwap.com and BookMooch.com. List the books you're willing to part w/ and request the books you want. All you pay for is postage when sending a book to another member. Great way to get an offline copy and is often cheaper than Amazon. ~Jason
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esnips.com is another website where you can find books - in many different languages!
Great tips, there are definitely plenty of ways to avoid paying for books and info. Amazon.com is the king of marketing for the impulse purchases, these expenses eat your wallet up pretty quickly. This is a good tip, I need to add it to my 20 Easy Ways to Save Money Without Changing your Lifestyle.
Cheers!
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