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7 Legal Ways To Get Free eBooks

https://www.howtogeek.com/legal-ways-to-get-free-ebooks/

(just skip Amazon for obvious reasons)

#books #literature #ebooks

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The Smashwords Read-an-Ebook sale has started — which is very convenient timing for anyone maybe looking around for alternatives to Amazon right now.

There’s heaps of DRM-free indie books on sale or even free for the next week:
https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos

Mine are here, all 50% off (making them the massive investment of US$2 to try out) for escapist queer romantic fantasy fun:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer
All proceeds to Ukraine 🇺🇦
Content warnings on my website: https://wendypalmer.au/content-warnings/

There’ll be plenty of other #MastoAuthors on sale there too (feel free to tag yourselves).

Give it a browse, you might discover your next favourite writer

@bookstodon @indieauthors #BookSale #Smashwords #fiction #ebooks #fantasy #QueerRomance #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks

An extension of the usual Smashwords Read-an-Ebook orange and grey advertising banner, which is those words plus a cartoon woman reading on her phone. This one adds an ereader with a pile of physical books stacked atop it (cartoon still), and some words about discovering new indie authors, getting DRM-free, great discounts - the point being a fantastic opportunity to stock up.

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February Project Gutenberg Newsletter

Contents

Mourning -> Celebrating
Tributes and Thanks from our community
A new feature: ARK linking
Our finances
New Releases at Gutenberg.org — January 2026
Links

https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/

#ebooks #publicdomain

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Distributed Proofreaders goes to Egypt - via London - with E.A. Wallis Budge's 1909 Guide to the Egyptian Collections at the British Museum https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/06/01/egypt-in-london/ #ebooks #AncientEgypt #BritishMuseum

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If you're not following @gutenberg_org you are missing out.

A wonderful source of everything from #cryptography through #art, #feminism to the #philosophy of #physics and a whole lot more I can't make vaguely alliterate.

#ProjectGutenberg - free #ebooks

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Why philosophy of physics?

Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful

By James Read

https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=708ceef367-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Philosophy of physics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7005

#ebooks #philosophy #physics

Divine Comedy, Paradiso II (c1492-95) by Sandro Botticelli.

In the larger circle on the right, two elegantly drawn figures are depicted. The figure on the right, dressed in a long robe and looking upward, represents Dante Alighieri, the poet. To his left stands Beatrice, his guide through Paradise, who gestures upward, symbolizing her explanation and guidance.

On the left side of the image is a diagram of concentric celestial spheres, representing the Ptolemaic model of the universe.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sandro_Botticelli%27s_illustrations_to_the_Divine_Comedy#/media/File:Botticelli,_Paradiso_2.jpg

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You own more than 75,000 books. Yes, they are yours! Come get them!

https://www.gutenberg.org/

#Ebooks #PublicDomain

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TIL: Whatever #ebooks or documents you put on a #Kindle, they're being indexed & uploaded automatically to the #Amazon server if the device has an internet connection. Just found out with an unpublished #manuscript that someone wanted to read on their Kindle and it ended up on the Amazon server, although it was put onto the Kindle manually via cable. Whatever you do with Amazon devices, you're adding everything to Amazon's data collection. #Enshittification #AuthorRights #IntellectualProperty

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The Return of the Leading Ladies Bundle is out now from Humble Bundle!

These 36 DRM-free digital comics from Image Comics are a powerhouse collection of femme-led stories celebrating the full spectrum of the femme experience without drowning it in pink. 💜

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/return-leading-ladies-image-comics-books

#DRMfree #Comics #Ebooks

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Is hosting all of your #ebooks on a server going a bit too far? Maybe not. I'm not sure what to think of #Booklore just yet, though I could very well give it a try.

https://www.xda-developers.com/this-self-hosted-app-fixed-my-messy-ebook-collection-overnight/

https://booklore.org/

https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

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This robot scans rare library books at 2,500 pages per hour

Digitizing rare manuscripts is getting increasingly hands-off.

By Andrew Paul

https://www.popsci.com/technology/book-scanning-robot/

Book scanning at Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning

#DigitalMedia #Ebooks

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A nice older review of my fantasy story The Last Philosopher from a non-fantasy reader 😊

Free ebook in comments.

@reading @books @fantasy
@worldbuilding
@bookstodon

#WIPWednesday #Short #Excerpt #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #eBook #eBooks
#SpecualtiveFiction #FantasyBooks #Fantasy #SciFi #WorldBuilding #Satire #Humor #Humour #Comedy
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #FantasyBooks
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Review #Bookreview #Recommendation

My overall impression of "The Last Philosopher" was not what I had expected it to be. As previously mentioned, Fantasy is not my go-to genre. So, going into this story, I was not entirely sure what to expect. Was this story going to be as painfully slow as what "The Hobbit" was? Or was this one of those rare times where I actually found myself enjoying a story of the Fantasy genre? I even enjoyed looking at the pictures that were added to each chapter.

"The Last Philosopher" is a story I would recommend to other readers on here to go read and share with their friends, relatives, frenemies, or anyone that could use a good read. Even if you are like me and have a specific genre you are drawn to, I would recommend you give "The Last Philosopher" a try. I found myself to be progressively more interested as the chapters continued. East really does do well with descriptions of chapters without there being much dialogue included.

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Distributed Proofreaders learns its lesson from Aesop one syllable at a time https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/07/01/aesop-in-words-of-one-syllable/ #ebooks #aesops_fables #childrensbooks

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Project Gutenberg turns 54!

On July 4, 1971, Michael Hart had the idea of using a computer to read and enjoy literature. This innovation led to the creation of Project Gutenberg, which continues to thrive today.
via @gbnewby

You can read more about the history of Project Gutenberg in our 50th anniversary writeup:

https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/50years.html

#Ebooks #PublicDomain

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Wonderful to see that a Standard Ebooks edition of Mary Butts’ brilliant but somewhat neglected modernist novel Armed With Madness has been released today.

#MaryButts #ArmedWithMadness #Modernism #ModernistLiterature #StandardEbooks #Ebooks #FreeEbooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mary-butts/armed-with-madness

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