Librarian Chick site helps you find free e-books
Hello, Robert and other new XO owners—or Kindle folks. Want a list of Creative Commons books that are over 35,000 words, free online, and have been commercially published? Check out Librarian Chick for a pointer to the right section at the CC site.
If you need PDF in an appropriate size, go to another of the Chick’s listings, Manybooks.net, which, by the way, has a young readers section with such titles as The Adventures of Grandfather frog. Also remember a new favorite of the TeleBlog, Feedbooks, another multiformat site (surprisingly not listed by Librarian Chick). Want textbooks or other specialized works? The Chick suggests a bunch of possibilities. Oh, and for online reading, the Chick mentions A Collection of the World’s Fairy Tales.
Need to locate the just right book for you or your child? The Chick points you to the OLPC FictionFinder. No guarantees your dream title will be free, of course.
Free online books with CC licenses or in the public domain are not the full solution for adults or children, but it’s still good to know they’re out there. Here’s to balanced copyright law! Fourteen-year terms would be mean-spirited toward authors, but, to me, a writer, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act remains an abomination—a year-long Scrooge-act against education and culture.
And speaking of holiday reading: If you’d enjoy folksy stories about rural life and want the inside lowdown on Christmas tree farms, take a look at Life on Santa Clause Lane, a for-sale book in E and P by Darrell Bain—yes, the sci-fi writer (among other genres). In the same vein: Doggie Biscuit.
Coming: Later today or this week, we’ll be running a post on Twilight Times Books, Darrell’s publisher, and other E houses that are also doing P.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Hey David, thank you for featuring Librarian Chick! Thanks for mentioning FeedBooks… I had never been! Of course I had to add it to the listing!
Thanks again!