4 Answers2025-08-07
I get free legal thrillers from BookBub – many free books are offered on a daily basis. Occasionally a publisher such as Tor will make an eBook free to download for a period of time. Open Library at Archive.org is also a good source of free eBooks – you create an account and then borrow books. This is all to be done within the bounds of the authorized distribution of the copyrighted work.
8 Answers2025-12-19
It’s late, I’m having a rather philosophical moment. All this over how to get to a book that contains ways of manipulating the universe with medieval scientific magic. The internet is a very strange and wonderful place. Goodnight.
9 Answers2026-03-14
After all that searching, I never did manage to find a complete set of resources. What I did find were isolated resources like a few tests on one site and the answer key for another, as well as a text file with all the vocabulary from the various tests. I managed to assemble the resources that I needed, despite my frustration.
Most search quests do not end with the perfect download. What one finds are the occasional complete tests, an answer key here, a vocabulary list stored in a text file there. It can be frustrating but in the end all of the necessary resources for completing the task at hand can be found. The Internet is a patchwork of content and that which one uses to learn often is a patchwork of resources that, when used together, provide what one needs to complete a learning task. That in itself is often a part of one’s preparation for using the Internet to learn.
8 Answers2025-07-29
The Archives of Nethys is the legally free resource for Paizo's SRD, posted on the website. It has all the rules. That Paizo can make money selling the nice hardcover edition of the rules and the nice adventures while at the same time making the rules themselves legally free for use by anyone, to play any game they wish, is cool. The website is a little bare, but completely functional. I have it bookmarked on every device I use. The best way to get information on anything at the table during play is to use the website – far better than to have to search through a PDF during the heat of combat. And while there is no free PDF, what Paizo has done is to provide something far more useful to actual players. Use the website – it’s the right way to do it.
3 Answers2025-12-30
Yes, please read The Hunger of the Gods by Gustav Gwynne. It’s a cracking read. The battles are superb. The entire book is a wonderful exploration of a great, Norse inspired world. Read it not via some dodgy, virus laden PDF, read proper copies. Maybe indie bookshops do ‘pay what you like’ sales, I’ve seen plenty of ebooks by this author discounted to near nothing at times too. Join a Discord server for fans of fantasy. I’m sure there’ll be people willing to swap/ lend you a copy of this.
Some indie bookshops do ‘pay what you like’ sales. You can also find plenty of discounted ebooks. And there’s always the chance that someone on a fantasy-themed Discord server will trade you recommendations with you, or even lend you a copy. Be creative, not a pirate!
10 Answers2025-12-30
It’s like subscribing to future stories. When you buy one of Brandon’s books, you’re not just paying for the paper and ink of that particular novel. You’re helping to fund the next Stormlight book, you’re helping him to get his next big project funded via Kickstarter, you’re a patron of the arts.
9 Answers2025-11-24
Are there any free ebook curation sites that have this book? That would be a really nicely packaged up ebook on one of the following free sites: Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks or Free-Ebooks.net. Almost all of the titles on these free sites are public domain or have been added by the authors themselves and these sites have very clean interfaces and safe downloads. Even if the book is not free it is often worth a search on these sites to see if it has recently gone free even if it is not a newly published title.
I’ve seen many books offered for free for short periods of time as part of a marketing campaign, often through platforms such as BookFunnel and StoryOrigin which enable authors to give away free review copies or reader magnets. Sometimes free books are promoted via authors’ own mailings, or indeed via Facebook groups or mailing lists for specific genres. It’s worth joining such groups or lists as you can get to hear about free books in your genre before they are promoted more widely on the web.
12 Answers2025-11-28
So rather than saving up for the physical copy of Rifts, or even downloading the official PDF (although that is lovely too), buying a copy of this inspirational, yet messy and disorganized artifact of a book will be worth every penny of the hard-earned cash you spend on it. Because what you’re buying is so much more than a rulebook – it’s a ticket to the world of Rifts and into a decades old community of fans who are passionate about a game that has inspired so many other games and scenarios. Work a couple of hours overtime at your job, skip buying a few coffees on the way to work, save up your pennies from your lunch money as a kid, it’s worth it!
10 Answers2025-08-01
Buying a book at a local, independent store as opposed to a big box store is a great way to support the community. Recommending a book to someone else by suggesting they get it from the library is also good. But downloading a pirated PDF of the book? That’s like sneaking into the back door of the restaurant, eating a whole meal, and then leaving without anyone seeing you or paying you. The restaurant gets no benefit from your having been there, and if too many people do this, the restaurant goes out of business. Similarly, many authors, even those who are published by big publishers, operate on the edge of poverty, and it is the big sellers like Maas that fund the publication of the mid-list authors that a publisher takes on risk with. Killing this revenue stream will hurt all of these people.
5 Answers2025-11-12
For searching for free PDFs of books like ‘All the Dead Lie Down’ (a book I’m currently researching for work with academic resources), I like to check the usual ‘formal channels’ first. This would include checking if the book is available through interlibrary loan systems and on institutional repositories. JSTOR, University Presses and some book chapters are also available for free. Looking up the book’s DOI and/or ISBN number on the publishers’ website or searching the book’s ISBN number on library catalogs also often helps to clarify access rights.
As authors deposit preprints of their work, as well as permitted versions under their publisher’s green open access policy, in repositories such as arXiv,doaj or researchgate, emailing the author directly is surprisingly often granted. This is in addition to sites such as piratebay that host illegal copies of work. Whilst I steer clear of these sites for legal reasons, it is also that one never knows the quality of the illegal copy in terms of integrity of the file. But, given the ethics involved, taking the extra time to find a legitimate copy, which in the end is usually readable anyway, is well worth it.