of eBook readers

Feb 20, 2011 12:15

I am resolved to get one -- literally, it's one of this year's resolutions. Which has the added requirement of being in such a financial situation as to be able to buy one ( Read more... )

jedi would like fic please, this jedi would like some help

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catherinehaines February 20 2011, 01:30:39 UTC
I have a wireless Kobo. I quite like it. Light, easy to use (you can just drag and drop all the drm-free ones like the ones you get which are out of copyright) and if you do buy off the Kobo site it's nice and quick and they often have coupons for like 20-30% off.

As for places to get free ebooks: try Gutenberg, EpubBooks, FeedBooks and ManyBooks.

Cory Doctorow (pubbed with Tor) releases his novels for free online under Creative Commons. In YA UF/fantasy & adult UF there's been a trend to e-only prequel/midquel novellas/short stories being released, which is neat. And in the same area, pubs are sometimes offering up the first book in a series for free for a limited time, to try and tempt people into getting the rest.

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