free, as in free!
If you're a cheapskate like me who doesn't like paying for books you'll only read once, but unlike me you don't mind reading them in soft-copy, you should check out Project Gutenberg.
As it says on the site, it's the world's first and largest collection of free electronic books. The best thing is most of the books are free, as in beer, AND free, as in speech* (If you're familiar with open source software, you should know what that means). They're so because their copyrights have expired, so don't expect to find any Dan Browns or John Grishams in there. Instead, you'll find plenty of the likes of Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, etc.
Not bad if you don't mind staring at your computer for hours. But I'll stick to begging, borrowing and stealing my reads. Meanwhile, you enjoy and keep reading!
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* Free as in beer means it doesn't cost you anything, i.e. FOC. Free as in speech means you can do whatever you want with it (eg: modify it, reprint it, give it to someone else, use to wipe your arse, etc). This is also known as Gratis versus Libre.
As it says on the site, it's the world's first and largest collection of free electronic books. The best thing is most of the books are free, as in beer, AND free, as in speech* (If you're familiar with open source software, you should know what that means). They're so because their copyrights have expired, so don't expect to find any Dan Browns or John Grishams in there. Instead, you'll find plenty of the likes of Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, etc.
Not bad if you don't mind staring at your computer for hours. But I'll stick to begging, borrowing and stealing my reads. Meanwhile, you enjoy and keep reading!
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* Free as in beer means it doesn't cost you anything, i.e. FOC. Free as in speech means you can do whatever you want with it (eg: modify it, reprint it, give it to someone else, use to wipe your arse, etc). This is also known as Gratis versus Libre.
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