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Can I Download My Lobotomy For Free Legally?

2025-12-18 04:48:46
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Quincy
Quincy
While 'My Lobotomy' is not old enough to be in the public domain, Dully deserves to be paid for his haunting and powerful memoir. While audiobook trials, such as Audible.com, often have a selection of memoirs available for free to try the service, I paid $5 for a used copy of this book at a flea market. It was worth the hunt.
2025-12-19
Ulysses
Ulysses
My Lobotomy is a work that is probably best borrowed from a library with e-book copies. If your library doesn’t have it, ask if your library participates in a reciprocal borrowing arrangement with the city’s larger libraries – I’ve gotten to read hundreds of books through this sort of arrangement.

Dully collaborated on a NPR documentary about his lobotomy and I highly recommend it in addition to the book, though of course it is not the book. Non-profits that work with individuals with disabilities or that focus on medical history often archive relevant materials; I try to link to those instead of pdfs on otherwise questionable websites – you never know what kind of pop-ups orfailures to download actually are lurking, and I find that stories about real human experience are worth paying for every now and again.
2025-12-21
Yasmin
Yasmin
Unfortunately I couldn’t locate a legal free version of this book. As I mentioned previously most legal free books are library books, and as Project Gutenberg and the Open Library are repositories for older public domain works, ‘My Lobotomy’ by Howard Dully would not be found on these sites. Occasionally a publisher will offer a book for free, and to find out about these look for the author’s newsletter on their website, or follow the author on Twitter etc.

But there are many other versions of my life on earth that you can listen to as podcasts and/or read as shorter interviews. If you are very patient, there will eventually be a Kindle sale of this memoir, for several dollars, which is typical for such books.
2025-12-21
Beau
Beau
My reason for wanting to read My Lobotomy by Howard Dully is that it is a very interesting and scary true memoir. Of course, there are already many legal free online copies of new books. The problem is that there are not many online free versions of recently published books such as this one (2008). The best way to read this online for free would be to check if your local library has it on digital lending, such as Libby or OverDrive. If not, then see if they can get it for you through interlibrary loans.

This book could likely be purchased used at a secondhand bookstore or on eBay for far less than the cover price of a new copy. There are many true memoirs of abusive and dark situations. It would be unfair to the author of this true story to download a pirated copy of his book for free, as many such copies contain hidden malware. Support true memoirs that detail such abuses in our history, rather you agree with them or not.
2025-12-22

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