Working Poor

w0nderer

(1,937 posts) Sat Oct 10, 2015, 08:57 PM Oct 2015

entertainment (free libraries, ebooks, audiobooks, games and similar) pref with review

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from another thread and some of my own

one thing i recommend is grabmybooks
http://grabmybooks.com/
along with calibre
http://calibre-ebook.com/

grabmybooks is an addon for firefox, chrome and (free 5 article per book, or $1.35 unlimited) android app
that'll grab a webpage or rss feed (or multiple ones) into an epub ebook (you can even use multiple rss or atom feeds to create a 'newspaper' epub

calibre (windows mac or linux and FREE) allows conversion of ebooks (pdf<>epub<>mobi) and so on
also acts as a 'library/book database'

https://www.gutenberg.org/
https://librivox.org/ # audio books
android mp3 audiobook (normally mp3 is not suited to audiobooks)
-- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stohelit.folderplayer&hl=en
(i'll add iphone and similar when someone with an iphone posts a good idea..note gotta read mp3's)

https://www.loc.gov/about/
https://archive.org/index.php
http://books.google.com
http://
https://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx
http://littlefreelibrary.org/ (real world small libraries) (also check 'pirate boxes' ) for libraries
https://www.bookbub.com/home/

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android ebook readers:
moonreader+
aldiko
fbreader
first and last actually can read synthesized voice for vision impaired
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iphone: (when someone posts one)
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blackberry: (when someone posts one)

more to come
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movies, ebooks, text books, courses and audiobooks
all free
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entertainment (free libraries, ebooks, audiobooks, games and similar) pref with review (Original Post) w0nderer Oct 2015 OP

And this: The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2015 #1

welcome and thanks :-) n/t w0nderer Oct 2015 #4

Book Bub NV Whino Oct 2015 #2

welcome and thanks :-) scroll down people, took me a while LOL n/t w0nderer Oct 2015 #5

is it me, or is it funny how w0nderer Oct 2015 #3

Open culture Sanity Claws Oct 2015 #6

Nice one, thanks and welcome :-) n/t w0nderer Oct 2015 #7

I used to have enough money to buy all the books I wanted. SheilaT Feb 2016 #8

libraries are great places w0nderer Feb 2016 #9

Several years ago my personal financial situation PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2016 #10

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,706 posts)

1. And this:

Reply to w0nderer (Original post)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:00 PM

Oct 2015

http://littlefreelibrary.org/

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)

4. welcome and thanks :-) n/t

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:51 PM

Oct 2015

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

2. Book Bub

Reply to w0nderer (Original post)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:15 PM

Oct 2015

https://www.bookbub.com/home/

Free and low cost e-books. All sorts of different categories. Fiction and nonfiction. You can select different categories and get daily e-mail notifications. Lots of good stuff, classics as well as contemporary fiction.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)

5. welcome and thanks :-) scroll down people, took me a while LOL n/t

Reply to NV Whino (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:51 PM

Oct 2015

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)

3. is it me, or is it funny how

Reply to w0nderer (Original post)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:42 PM

Oct 2015

the middle class seems to believe the working poor don't read?

Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)

6. Open culture

Reply to w0nderer (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 03:27 PM

Oct 2015

http://www.openculture.com/
This website will link you to free ebooks, movies, courses, etc. This website told me about the Paramount vault on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzMVH2jEyEwXPBvyht8xQNw/playlists

Full Paramount movies are there. I already looked at a few -- they're not the best.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)

7. Nice one, thanks and welcome :-) n/t

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #6)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 08:00 PM

Oct 2015

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

8. I used to have enough money to buy all the books I wanted.

Reply to w0nderer (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 01:34 AM

Feb 2016

My life changed, and I rediscovered the joys of the public library. And I do mean it about the joys. I'd forgotten, in the years I only went to bookstores, that the mix of books at a library was different, and in many ways much better.

My life is actually better these days, now that I can't afford to buy so many books.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)

9. libraries are great places

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #8)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 02:07 AM

Feb 2016

and they have librarians where you can just throw out a 'name a good book'
you may not like what they recommend but i almost guarantee it opened a new perspective

used bookstores too (especially the trade in books)

and little free library
http://littlefreelibrary.org/
unfortunately in some places...
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/02/little-free-library-crackdown/385531/

and the classic leave the book on a table with a comment inside to 'read and pass on'

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,858 posts)

10. Several years ago my personal financial situation

Reply to w0nderer (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 05:08 AM

Aug 2016

changed so that I could no longer afford to buy very many books. I rediscovered the joys of the public library. In fact, I'm annoyed at myself, totally aside from the money aspect, that I'd abandoned the public libraries just because I could afford to buy whatever books I wanted.

Nowadays I rarely buy a book, and absolutely revel in the joys of the public library. Yes, there are times when they don't have a book I'd like to read, but luckily for me I have such a wide range or interests that I can simply go on to the next book.

One reason I don't own any of the e-readers is that I don't get spending money to download books I can check out for free in the first place.

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