Category: book Nook
Hi all!
May I know is there any website where I can go and read books for free online without have to subscribe or even have to pay for it? Thanks.
Web-Braille is free but you gotta sign up.
Unfortunatley, web braille is only available to citizens of the US who have a qualifying reading disability. Project gutenburg has thousands of free books and they r free for anyone anywhere in the world. They also have a wide variety of languages. The bad part is that they can only offer material that is in the public domain, but it is worth checking out anyway. I will post the link to this site in a separate message.
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
Don't forget www.bookshare.org for textbooks; it's only $50 a yearplus a $25 signup fee. Also ask publishers for copies of electronic textbooks/books; many are offering them now to people with qualifying disabilities. www.audible.com isn't too badly priced either.
These suggestions are all well and good for someone who lives in the US, but the person asking this question, Cill Bot , lives in Singapore. Bookshare is also good for US residents only. However, I will post another link in the next message. This site has quite a few audio books for free, but the free versions don't have the best audio quality and u have to register.
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com
Not to be mean KC, but are all these free sites legal? Just checking, I'm sure you wouldn't do anything bad, but yeah, just checking.
The gutenberg site is really neat. it looks sort of cluttered to me, and when I browse by either author or title alphabetically, there is usually over 1000 links, almost too much for me to handle, lol, but it's a pretty good site. I started a book called the abandoned room, by someone whose last name is wadsworth, can't for the life think of the first name, but It started with a c. It's a good old gothic sort of mystery. I hope there more horror and mystery books there. Most of them seem to be historical literature, but still seems like a good site. I think they're mostly a hundred years old or more. Thanks for the url kc.
wonderwoman
I just went back and read about 11 more pages of the abandoned room. The author is Wadsworth Camp. I thought I was going to need a place marker for it, but my temporary place marker doesn't land back where I left it for some reason, but at least the books are divided into short pages, so I just have to remember what page I stopped on, and there is a go to page, so if you remember the page where you left off, then you can just type the page number you want to go to in the go to page edit field.
wonderwoman
I believe project gutenberg has an ftp site, so u might want to try that WW if u can navigate those any better. Yes, these are both legal sites. If they weren't, I would have said so, or not given the information to begin with.
Thanks to those who had responded to my question. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the suggestion kc, but the problem with text books is when you download them, there's no easy way to mark your place when you want to stop, and placemarkers only work on the web. I'm getting a bit more use to it I think. At least I can type in the name of an author and it comes up with whatever titles they have by that author. It's just when I type in a title in the search field, it reads the title back to me that I typed, but it doesn't point to a link that I can enter on.
wonderwoman
Hello WW. As far as finding the place where u left off goes, if you simply remember the last few words of what you have read before you stoped the last time, then you can just hit control f, enter those words in to the find function of jaws, and be right where u left off. I'm not that experienced with gutenberg since I am a member of bookshare and most of the books from project gutenberg r also on bookshare, so I'm not sure how to help you with the navigation of their site. Glad u r getting some use out of the site though.
Thanks kc, now if I could only remember the exact words where I left off, lol. Sounds like a good plan, at least with that technique, I should be able to put myself fairly close to where I left off. I, like cillbot, like to read my books for free whenever possible. It's a nice sight though, thanks,
wonderwoman