Loaded onto my Nook

[pegkerr]

I discovered manybooks.net yesterday and have loaded onto my Nook free books by Jane Austen, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Rafael Sabatini, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Fanny Burney, George Eliot, Alexandre Duma, père, and, ahem, Baroness Emmuska Orczy (talk about guilty pleasures). W00t

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[dreamflower02]

I just love my Nook! Though I confess, I've mostly loaded mine with my favorite fanfics...

Thanks for the link, though!

[pegkerr]

Yeah, I've loaded mine with favorite fanfics, too!

[comrade_cat]

Emmuska? Emmuska. That is a fabulous and beautiful name...

[satakieli]

Ooh. If you don't already know about it, Project Gutenberg is your friend. (I think that they are the source of most of the manybooks.net texts.) They're a crowd-sourced project to digitize the texts of all out-of-copyright English-language books. I think they started out with just .txt format, but they now also have all the standard ebook formats, and have for some years now. They're even beginning to have some illustrated ebooks. The formatting sometimes it leaves something to be desired, but usually it's just fine, and sometimes it's quite nice (I can only speak for epubs, but that's what your Nook uses).

I've only rarely looked for books that are definitely out of copyright and found them not to have them yet. Most of the time checking back in a few months or a couple of years solves the problem. (The most recent lack I've found: The Columbian Orator, cited by Frederick Douglass as a key goad to his determination to escape slavery. Which I would never have known about if I hadn't been reading one of his autobiographies

[anonymous]

I too have a nook, and love it a lot! But I did not realize that you can download library books onto it. How does that work? Is there a web page I can go to?

I also like your list of authors - I'm particularly glad to see my old favorites Rafael Sabatini and ahem, Baroness Emmuska Orczy. :-)

I'm not familiar with Fanny Burney, but since I know and love all the others, I will have to look her up!

KC

[pegkerr]

Check your local library's website. Mine, the Hennepin County Library, uses the Overdrive Digital catalogue. You choose which books you want, and give them the number on your library card, and then you can download the books. Very handy! I did have to download Adobe Digital to do it (a program that manages digital books which is the interface that Overdrive Digital uses), but that was very easy.

more free books

[catalogermom]

In manybooks, you can find a number of Wodehouse, and a couple of early Agatha Christie's novels as well. You might also take a look at Cory Doctorow, a YA author. He likes to offer his novels as free ebooks through Creative commmons licensing. Kelly Link has a couple of her short story books posted there and Jo Walton has at least two books up. You might also like to take a look at Instapaper, a free service for marking and reading webpages later.