I’m not good at haggling but dangle a freebie in front of my face and I’m all yours! Well, I firmly believe that the best things in life are for free and if it doesn’t hurt anybody then why not? In this post, you’ll find my journey to satisfying my never ending craving for books. Not the buy-me-and-stack-me-at-one-corner-of-your-house-for-dust-to-eat-me kind. Now that I have my ebook reader with me, the next most logical question must be, “where to get those ebooks?” In my case, I don’t need any more pushing; I surfed the internet for ebooks for free ones as well as paid ones seconds after I placed my order for the ebook reader itself!
First off, ebooks are electric books or digital books. Literally, they are books published in digital form to be read on computers and other digital devices. A device that is designed specifically for an ebook is an ebook reader. With an ebook reader, you can adjust font sizes as well as the brightness of the “pages” depending on your eyes’ preferences. Nonetheless, an ebook can be read using mobile phones that support certain types of format.
When looking for an ebook, make sure you are looking for the right format your ebook reader supports. Some of the most popular ones are .pdf, .html, .doc, .rtf, .txt, .mobi, .epub and .rgo. If you are using an Amazon Kindle, you should be looking for .azw format. To date, Apple and Android devices have the widest range of supported formats, in fact, the only formats they don’t support are .lrx and .wol.
So where to buy new ebooks to load up your E-readers? If you are a Kindle owner, of course you have to buy ebooks from Amazon. However, there are many ebooks you can find scattered around the internet to buy—even publishing houses are now selling digital copies over their website! All you need to do is take a peek inside your favorite book (the paper kind) and look for the publishing house’s website! For magazine collectors, magazine in digital format can also be uploaded to your E-Reader.
As mentioned earlier, not all ebooks are with tags. The beauty of having an E-Reader is you can download all the ebooks you want, paid and free! Free ebooks can also be found in legitimate sites such as Project Gutenberg. Ebooks here are classic ones such as Pride and Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables. These books were released for free because their copyright has already expired.
You might find newly released ebooks for free on P2P sites but you have to be very weary on downloading through them as it is illegal to do so. Aside from that, this is a popular way of transmitting viruses to a computer. You wouldn’t want to risk your computer’s health for just an ebook you can buy for a couple of dollars right?
