The Following Websites For Readers Provide Free Access To Online Books
The internet is a rich resource for book lovers to mine. You can travel solo, or join like-minded readers in online book clubs to read and discuss authors, eras, or subjects that fire up your passions. Book clubs offer unique perspectives from others on the books and authors you love to read.
Or break out of old reading habits and try something new-- use these websites to explore new authors and new genres, sign up for portable email snippets or whole chapters, or download entire books for reading on the go.
For Lovers of the Unusual and Vintage – Chest Of Books. Com
This website is irresistible for the sheer magnitude of titles, categories, and subcategories of both books and articles. You could easily spend an entire day on this delightful site.
- For hundreds of additional topics, including articles on computers, health, home repair and more, scroll down on the left to FAQ Help Tutorials.
- Publication dates range from present day to vintage. I came across an intriguing magazine article written in 1902 explaining electricity.
Free Downloads For Readers - Many Books.comRead on the go. These are just some of the more than 50 categories of books available for free download: Adventure, African-American Studies, Banned Books, Correspondence, Creative Commons, Criticism, Drama, Espionage, Essays, Etiquette, Fantasy, Games, Gay/Lesbian, Ghost Stories, Gothic, Harvard Classics, History, Humor, Music, Mystery/Detective, Myth, Nautical, Philosophy, Pirate Tales, Poetry, Pulp, Romance, Satire, Science, Science Fiction, Short Story, Thriller, War and Westerns.
Book Lovers Can Sign Up For Clubs And Email Deliveries - Dear Reader.Com
The site’s founder, Suzanne Beecher, says, “Thanks for reading with me. It’s so good to read with friends.” Among the rich offerings at this site:
- Book Forums, 12 genres to choose from. Some of the current club selections are The Great Depression, by Benjamin Roth (non-fiction); The Fourth Assassin, by Matt Beynon Rees (mystery); They Almost Always Come Home, by Cynthia Ruchti (good news); Veracity, by Laura Bynum; (science fiction); The Diviner's Tale, by Bradford Morrow (pre-publication); Where the Dead Lay, by David Levien (thriller), and Things the Grandchildren Should Know: A Memoir (audio)
- The Penguin Classics Bookclub. Two or three chapters of the featured classic are emailed to you once every two months. Some past selections have been: Dangerous Liaisons, by Choderlos De Laclos, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton, and In Patagonia, by Bruce Chatwin.
- The Breakfast Club. A daily five-minute email sampling, fiction or nonfiction, from the weekly book selection. Provides a quick read and an opportunity to discover authors and books that you might not otherwise find.
- The St. Martin’s Read-it First Email Book Club. Receive a daily sampling from a new or soon to be released Minotaur book, sometimes before it is in stores. At the end of the week you will have read several chapters.
- The Author Buzz Club. Authors share insights into their work. Each week three to six featured authors write special notes for the book club. Check the archived author’s notes on the website.
For Readers Looking For Inspirational Books And Email Deliveries - Oshkosh Public Library .org / Readers / Inspirational
Use the Oshkosh Public Library link above for the following:
- Sign up for daily email snippets from new and best selling inspirational books
- the Good News Online Bookclub
- inspirational reading lists
- links to award winning inspirational books
For Book Lovers – There Are So Many Choices, So Little Time
Book lovers cannot imagine life without reading. Some of us even read several books at the same time. Nonfiction books are especially conducive to randomly opening up to any page and uncovering a nugget that inspires, informs, or entertains.
Today readers have access to a virtual worldwide library, and the ability to exchange ideas about books and their authors with countless other readers. And it just keeps getting better.
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