Posted on 03/04/2024 6:14:24 AM PST by LouAvul
I use the Gutenberg Project and have downloaded some classics from them. I'm looking for a source for modern, popular books that I can pay a fee, download to my laptop, and the book is mine even if I terminate a subscription with the source.
Kindle says if I terminate the subscription I lose the book. Besides, with Kindle, can you use a generic computer or is it a Kindle compatible device?
For years I used Barnes and Noble’s NOOK type e tablet readers and uploaded my epub format books from various sources to read. Kindle seemed to make it harder to source your own and load them to their Fire tablets.
I just read this: “Barnes & Noble is sunsetting support for some of its oldest e-readers. It’ll start by disabling the devices’ services starting in April 2024; afterward, the company will disable access to the Barnes & Noble bookstore, removing the ability to buy new books on the devices beginning in June 2024.”
I have a Kindle, and they make it difficult but not impossible to use other resources.
I download pdfs onto my desktop, then copy to the tablet..............
Source?
Are you talking about a purchase fee per eBook or a fixed monthly fee to download whatever is available on the service? The latter doesn't exist (legally).
Maybe one of our resident authors who uses eBooks has a suggestion.
No, the former. Purchase fee per book.
For Science Fiction of all types, Baen Books is my go to place for eBooks. Many authors have a couple of books from their series for free in the expectation that after you read it, you will then buy the rest of the series. I have done this many times as it is excellent to try one for free first.
I have used kindle for years, lately I use the local library online. They are part of a larger cooperative. They have free downloadable books and online movies. The movies are through hoopla, free.
One advantage of Kindle....you can ‘loan’ books to other Kindle readers. Not all books, but it seems like more than half fit into the category.
I’ve got about 40 historical Kindle books that I’ve gone through. Don’t know what number is loanable.
I use calibre to manage epub/mobi books and move them onto my kindle. It is not an intuitive program.
Kindle Unlimited, has a fee, but is also a good source of books if you're more interested in genres rather than specific books. A lot of self-pub writers there.
Related to that, amazon sells those books for next to nothing. I got a few box sets totaling 18 books for the 3 dollars of digital credit I received by picking a longer shipping options on an order.
Of course, you can sail the seven seas and go the pirate route. Calibre will get them on your device.
Various sources. Most university libraries and many city libraries have downloadable books. I just google the name of the authors or titles of the books I’m interested in and add ‘pdf’ to the query...................
Sample:
I have a Kindle app on my iPhone.
Lots of free stuff there.
I've used this to download some books. A few I was very surprised I could get as they are in current circulation and very expensive. Others you can checkout for a time period, you can always checkout them again.
Not the same thing, but you can probably borrow library e-books as needed.
Kindle has a PDF to Kindle application program, that lets you push up any PDF document onto Kindle. Many popular books are privately scanned into a pdf format on the internet, some of quite good quality, which can be downloaded. (A book I’m interested in I search for on google as
“Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control” filetype:pdf
) In Acrobat linking to and back to table of contents is dependent on how it is managed—unfortunately, you are looking at shelling out for the professional level of Acrobat.
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