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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2016 4:26:19 GMT -5
Figured I'd give this its own thread so more people will see it.
BookBub is super cool; you sign up, choose your genres and frequency of emails (I get weekly), and take your pick of dirt-cheap or free books! The selection isn't the greatest if you're looking for best-sellers, but I've gotten a ton of bodice-rippers and I'm sure y'all will find something you like. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 8, 2016 8:03:18 GMT -5
And how much are you CHARGING for this free book email?
But no, SLOW is right y'all, BookBub is really awesome. I just got A Head Full of Ghosts for $1.99 there yesterday, and have about 6 books I got from there for free or cheap on my Kindle right now.
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Post by nowimnothing on Mar 8, 2016 8:42:35 GMT -5
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Mar 8, 2016 8:49:18 GMT -5
The Baen Books Free Library caused a real problem when it came to me getting work done on college computers because they offer a lot of free science fiction and fantasy ebooks, and have for well over a decade. They have a lot of old books for free, but also more recent books - especially 'first in a series' options, as if they were a crack dealer throwing you your first hit (which in a way they are.) |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2016 12:25:02 GMT -5
I like Overdrive when I have a title (or author) in mind, but BookBub is great for browsing. I just scroll down and see what's free. If I like the description, it's mine! MINE, MUAHAHAHA! |
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Post by sarapen on Mar 8, 2016 13:35:32 GMT -5
Yeah, my library has all of those. It made me realize that I don't really read magazines anymore, even when they come for free at the click of a button. Anyway, my only problem with Hoopla is that there doesn't seem to be a way to watch it on a smart TV, unless you feel like physically connecting your laptop via HD cable. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 8, 2016 20:32:53 GMT -5
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 10, 2016 0:35:51 GMT -5
I love BookBub. At one time I signed up for a lot of ebook email lists, but this is the only one I've kept.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on May 2, 2016 11:27:43 GMT -5
I signed up for BookBub based on this recommendation and even though I don't have a ton of interest in a lot of what comes through, it's fun to get the emails at least.
The thing that really amuses me though are all the bonkers, garbage e-books that start showing up in your Amazon recommendations the second you purchase even one free book. Just so many DIY skin-care booklets and ever more niche Christian devotionals.
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Post by Desert Dweller on May 4, 2016 0:23:45 GMT -5
Amazon's recommendations have always been a joke. Whenever I buy a book of any kind, it immediately changes my recommendations to be filled with other books by that same writer, regardless of subject.
Or, an opposite but equally annoying problem, for years I couldn't get Amazon to recommend me books other than extremely basic American literature. Like, your 8th-10th grade required reading lists. Meanwhile, I was buying books by Borges, Vargas Llosa, Saramago, Calvino, Balzac, Mahfouz, Proust, etc. AKA, NOT 8th-10th grade American literature. No, Amazon. I don't want to buy "Animal Farm" or "Of Mice and Men".
The only time I got Amazon to recommend me foreign literature is when I made one huge order of about 10 novels that were all foreign literature.
Anyway, I find about 1-2 really good deals through BookBub per month. Usually very popular biographies or non-fiction discounted down to $1-$3. Occasionally a great mystery by a well-known writer. And once in a while some great popular fiction under $3.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on May 4, 2016 8:57:32 GMT -5
Amazon's recommendations have always been a joke. Whenever I buy a book of any kind, it immediately changes my recommendations to be filled with other books by that same writer, regardless of subject. Or, an opposite but equally annoying problem, for years I couldn't get Amazon to recommend me books other than extremely basic American literature. Like, your 8th-10th grade required reading lists. Meanwhile, I was buying books by Borges, Vargas Llosa, Saramago, Calvino, Balzac, Mahfouz, Proust, etc. AKA, NOT 8th-10th grade American literature. No, Amazon. I don't want to buy "Animal Farm" or "Of Mice and Men". The only time I got Amazon to recommend me foreign literature is when I made one huge order of about 10 novels that were all foreign literature. Anyway, I find about 1-2 really good deals through BookBub per month. Usually very popular biographies or non-fiction discounted down to $1-$3. Occasionally a great mystery by a well-known writer. And once in a while some great popular fiction under $3. Oh, I know Amazon's recommendations are mostly garbage but I still weirdly enjoy scrolling through the list and removing the worst suggestions. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 4, 2016 16:37:36 GMT -5
I must have super-predictable taste because I’ve learned to ignore Amazon’s recommendations because I often find them kind of tempting.
The most on-point recommendation I’ve ever gotten, though, was from Hulu—I mainly use it to watch old Lupin III episodes for my write-ups, which typically are at least 25% old French car spotting, so what does Hulu recommend? Ronin. Very smart, Hulu. Very good (and a France-set film with a Japanese name, as opposed to vice-versa).
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Post by Trurl on May 11, 2016 19:28:15 GMT -5
I must have super-predictable taste because I’ve learned to ignore Amazon’s recommendations because I often find them kind of tempting. The most on-point recommendation I’ve ever gotten, though, was from Hulu—I mainly use it to watch old Lupin III episodes for my write-ups, which typically are at least 25% old French car spotting, so what does Hulu recommend? Ronin. Very smart, Hulu. Very good (and a France-set film with a Japanese name, as opposed to vice-versa). Speaking of free e-books, I've been lately reading the Lupin stories which I found at Project Gutenberg |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 12, 2016 12:01:36 GMT -5
Trurl I’ve been doing the same (also a nice way to keep up with my French, which doesn’t get enough exercise here in LA).
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Post by Paleu on May 13, 2016 18:21:22 GMT -5
Trurl I’ve been doing the same (also a nice way to keep up with my French, which doesn’t get enough exercise here in LA). Are they any good? I've been burned by fin-de-siècle pulp before. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 16, 2016 11:29:30 GMT -5
Paleu I’ve only read the first collection but I enjoyed it, though it’s not terribly pulpy in the sense of crime-novel pulpy—more in the sort of clever Sir Arthur Conan Doyle vein. I’m also reading them in the original, which means I get the benefit of both having both much less context for French literature and losing the chance of getting a bad translation.
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