So I’m off on holiday soon, and my x4 e-reader is conspicuously devoid of unread sci-fi. Can anyone point me at a good source? I’ve checked the easily findable places
Where to fill my e-reader
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1 daylots of useful posts above but
not sci fi so much but Project Gutenberg has lots of old stuff, by that I mean Dickens, Joseph Konrad etal
my gfs currently reading Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” from there and loves it.
but for Sci Fi there’s Wells etc
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=h.+g.+wells
and they do have a science fiction category
- squeeb@quokk.auEnglish2 days
this is the only one you need to know, tbh. its an amalgamation of mirrors of basically every other public archive
- ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 days
Local library, best free source of ebooks I’ve found out there, and it’s perfectly legal.
- noodles@slrpnk.netEnglish2 days
Has anyone found a way to use the ebooks without Amazon? Every one I’ve joined has used Libby to access Kindle books and I haven’t found a different way to access the content.
- dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
There’s an extension for Calibre called DE-DRM that works in the majority of cases.
if you mean library books ? i use Kobo and it has Overdrive for e-Library access to my local library, works even overseas and I thought it might be geolocked. (I travel SE Asia 8 months a year on the cheap)
I just use Calibre and plug in via USB for the 10,000+ebooks i have.
- ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 days
I download for reading and either just read with the adobe DRM still there, or strip the adobe DRM to have a clean epub file.
Don’t know about amazon, haven’t encountered Libby using that.
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Yeah I second that , huge selection of ebooks,audiobooks, and more just using a library card and you can get it digital also from libby or Hoopla. Free linkedin learning also
- Manalith@midwest.socialEnglish1 day
If you use Soulseek, you could do a search for a generic word and then filter it to .epub files and see what it finds
- PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
Heck yeah, that’s a brilliant site, thanks. I haven’t sailed the high seas in a long while, I don’t consume much media these days that’s not physical, so that’s a really good shout
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if you’ve got the spare time to wait for the open sign ups on myanonamouse, they’ve got an extremely extensive collection of rather rare ebooks.
if not, annasarchive and the sources on fmhy are very useful.
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the electronic library. for suggestions about titles, I usually browse the locus and the nebula prizes
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Z-library has a 10/day limit, but is a neat source to find books.
Torrents are sometimes organized under an author’s name for their collected works
Archive.org has a bunch of public domain/commons books in e-reader formats
Baen free library. You want SciFi? Baen has DRM free books before amazon existed.
- Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 days
Torrent. Go on your favourite torrent site, google your favourite author, download their entire collected works.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish2 days
I would suggest, unsolicited as it is, to visit some place in the world, and leave the internet behind for a couple of weeks.
They’re bringing books, not the internet. Some people enjoy reading books in their spare time.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish2 days
Books? I am unfamiliar with that term.
I am reading Nobel House, part of the Asian Saga of my man, James Clavell. Nah de leh moh all government. (Fuck the mother of… in Cantonese, no one can swear like the cantonese.)
Terry Pratchett currently. Just finished The Rose Field by Philip Pullman. Love the series, the ending was great. Took an anti-capitalist turn I didn’t expect.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish2 days
I have been doing some history, including this book from 1905 or something, they are shorts, 40 pages or so each, this Russian one I read, authored in part by Tolstoy if I recall, was just sad, talking about the “Russian Revolution” of like 1905 or something.
It was something, labour unrest that spread, the tsar tried to violently quash it as they were wont to do, and it made the protests spread further. The Tsar eventually agreed to a constitutional monarchy and all that, but then the new duma angered him right off and he had them sent to the gulag and death. But then had to reinstitute it at some point.
The authors were all hopeful for Russia’s future and shit, just sad, given a couple years later WWI tore them up.
- PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
Thing is, to get to the place that I’m visiting, I have 20+ hours of flying each way, and a months worth of reading in bed to do when I’m there. If I took enough books to keep me occupied, I’d need to pay for extra baggage
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish2 days
James Clavell is great for historical fiction. I would skip Shogun to start, and start with Tai Pan.
- doubtingtammy@lemmy.mlEnglish2 days
Anna’s archive is a cheaper thrill that enables one to join the long tradition of being pseudo-cosmopolitan through reading
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish2 days
Sure. OP made it sound like they have a job that gives 2 weeks paid vacation, and if that’s the case, go somewhere cool. If you are not in that position, yes, what you say.
