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
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annas archive is very nice
this is the only one you need to know, tbh. its an amalgamation of mirrors of basically every other public archive
All the best shadow libraries
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lots 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
Local library, best free source of ebooks I’ve found out there, and it’s perfectly legal.
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.
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.
Is it possible to remove the drm from overdrive?
Yes, there is a De-DRM extension for Calibre which will automatically strip DRM when you import files into your Calibre library.
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.
You can use a caliber extension called DeDRM to remove the DRM from ebooks your local library provides. As a bonus having active members helps them secure funding to provide valuable community services.
That being said I don’t browse for books, I decide I want to read X and then get bummed when my local library doesn’t have it. The shadow library basically has everything, and yiu can see which instances are up at https://open-slum.org/
I don’t browse that much either - I find authors that I enjoy and then launch myself down their back-catalogue’s rabbit hole. I buy a lot of books, but for travelling I want things to be easier, and to try some of the things I’m not sure I want to spend money on
fmhy dot net
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
Usenet via Evan Buss’s Openbooks
Baen free library. You want SciFi? Baen has DRM free books before amazon existed.
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.
the electronic library. for suggestions about titles, I usually browse the locus and the nebula prizes
Z-library has a 10/day limit, but is a neat source to find books.
If you add it as a telegram bot your limit is 20. Then it will also deliver the files via telegram.
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
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.
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.
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
James Clavell is great for historical fiction. I would skip Shogun to start, and start with Tai Pan.
Anna’s archive is a cheaper thrill that enables one to join the long tradition of being pseudo-cosmopolitan through reading
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.
