7 Answers2025-12-15
I got the first volume for free a couple of years ago when it was featured in a Kindle Daily Deal. Those still happen from time to time. I have an alert set up on ereaderiq.com for books by Dennis E. Taylor as well as for this specific book, so whenever it goes on sale for zero or even just a few bucks, I get a notification. Note that these freebies are not pirate copies, but rather part of a author’s/publisher’s marketing campaign to gain new readers. It’s a nice, round cycle of getting people to read a book for free, hopefully getting them hooked, then people buying the rest of the author’s books because they’re a fan. That’s certainly better than getting the book via torrent where no one gets any value and you might get some adware thrown in for good measure.
9 Answers2025-08-01
Just reading the recommendations. This term “projection novel” is new to me, but I do like BL+sci-fi/fantasy. Following this thread for ideas.
5 Answers2025-12-17
A story being widely available on a number of pirate sites might end up getting picked up by a publisher, given it proves popular enough, in what is essentially an unethical method of proof of concept. This is very different, though, from someone stealing an English original story by a published author. Not only is it stealing work that the author has gone to direct effort to put out, and taking money from them directly, there’s no ‘it might get noticed’ upside – the biggest potential benefit of word-of-mouth, for example, is greatly diminished when the person who did the pirating is less likely to promote the work via legitimate channels. And so, all-in, it’s very likely to be net negative for the author of an English original story, as opposed to an untranslated foreign work.
4 Answers2025-12-18
I'm considering ethics here technically speaking there may be ‘Strangers in Time’ torrents floating about on pirate websites etc. But I detest the thought of pirating a book when a die-hard bookworm like myself recognizes authors to be human beings who toil away to produce their work and therefore deserve to be compensated for it.
If you can’t afford a book, I won’t stop you from getting it secondhand or even from renting e-books via services like Scribd (which I’ve found is very cheap and allows you to read lots of books for a low subscription). Plus, maybe the universe is just leading you to another great time-travel story until you can afford this one! The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, for example, totally scratched my time-travel itch last summer when I was otherwise broke.
4 Answers2025-12-18
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.
8 Answers2026-01-15
Is there anyone reading only eBooks and not even visiting our website? Such readers would be missing all the revisions to a chapter as well as the author’s notes added to the end of each chapter. These often are quite funny and very insightful.
6 Answers2025-11-28
I've read most of these comments already. Nobody has brought up the quality of the official translation though, and that is actually very good. As the basis for a ‘pirated’ version it would presumably use an older, rougher fan translation, whereas the JAST/Steam version that you pay for is polished and captures all of the nuance of the original Japanese. And for a story so heavily based in prose and psychological complexity, you really do want the very best translation of it all. It would be a waste of time of the worst kind if you were to settle for a dodgy free version and not even manage to get the story right.
3 Answers2025-12-02
Looking for free PDFs of manga can be quite of an adventure. I personally would not recommend randomly clicking on links to download “The Classmate” for free. There are way too many scam links and the risk of malware is too high. On the other hand there are many aggregator websites for manga that host fan-made translations of manga, most of which are illegal but often gray.
If you are into physical copies of manga, second-hand bookstores and comic shops may well have copies for sale at low prices. I found a battered copy of ‘The Classmate’ for the modest sum of $3 – it was one of those days!
3 Answers2026-02-05
Most modern books such as For the Record are not released legally as free books unless the author has chosen to release them as free books. You may occasionally find a fan translation floating about on obscure forums that offer free downloads, but these are generally to be avoided. Instead, consider using your local library through an app.
Some books, like ‘For the Record’, are offered for free by the author, but usually not legally. Fans can sometimes find a translation of a book and offer it for download, but often these are found on dodgy forums and you don’t know where the money from the download is going. A better option are library apps which offer budget readers a vast choice of books and are perfectly legal. Occasionally authors will run a giveaway for their book on Goodreads or Twitter, so it’s worth keeping an eye on those. It’s not exactly quick and will mean you’re reading within the law, but it’s worth waiting for.
3 Answers2026-01-19
I want to read ‘Choujin X’ so badly! The comic is just like the usually so grim and unpredictable as Ishida’s id unleashed. Vol. 1 is not free right now and I don’t know when it will be, so I check Kodansha’s social media every now and then for announcements.
You can find ‘Choujin X’ Vol. 1 on Google Play Books, Apple Books, and Kodansha’s online bookstores. Most branches of my local library also have copies available for digital loan. Low-quality, fan-translated scan versions of the work are available online but they are not adequate to do justice to the work’s pace and overall feel. Secondhand bookstores and online auction sites like eBay are good places to find very cheap copies of the work. Holding the printed book in your hands and seeing how Tokio changes in them is pure magic.