So I’m off on holiday soon, and my x4 e-reader is conspicuously devoid of unread sci-fi. Can anyone point me at a good source? I’ve checked the easily findable places
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You can use a caliber extension called DeDRM to remove the DRM from ebooks your local library provides. As a bonus having active members helps them secure funding to provide valuable community services.
That being said I don’t browse for books, I decide I want to read X and then get bummed when my local library doesn’t have it. The shadow library basically has everything, and yiu can see which instances are up at https://open-slum.org/
Usenet via Evan Buss’s Openbooks
annas archive is very nice
this is the only one you need to know, tbh. its an amalgamation of mirrors of basically every other public archive
Local library, best free source of ebooks I’ve found out there, and it’s perfectly legal.
Has anyone found a way to use the ebooks without Amazon? Every one I’ve joined has used Libby to access Kindle books and I haven’t found a different way to access the content.
There’s an extension for Calibre called DE-DRM that works in the majority of cases.
if you mean library books ? i use Kobo and it has Overdrive for e-Library access to my local library, works even overseas and I thought it might be geolocked. (I travel SE Asia 8 months a year on the cheap)
I just use Calibre and plug in via USB for the 10,000+ebooks i have.
Is it possible to remove the drm from overdrive?
I download for reading and either just read with the adobe DRM still there, or strip the adobe DRM to have a clean epub file.
Don’t know about amazon, haven’t encountered Libby using that.
Yeah I second that , huge selection of ebooks,audiobooks, and more just using a library card and you can get it digital also from libby or Hoopla. Free linkedin learning also
That’s a fantastic shout, I’ll get down there tomorrow
All the best shadow libraries
Perfect, thanks
Thank you for this.
lots of useful posts above but
not sci fi so much but Project Gutenberg has lots of old stuff, by that I mean Dickens, Joseph Konrad etal
my gfs currently reading Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” from there and loves it.
but for Sci Fi there’s Wells etc
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=h.+g.+wells
and they do have a science fiction category
fmhy dot net
Heck yeah, that’s a brilliant site, thanks. I haven’t sailed the high seas in a long while, I don’t consume much media these days that’s not physical, so that’s a really good shout
If you use Soulseek, you could do a search for a generic word and then filter it to .epub files and see what it finds
if you’ve got the spare time to wait for the open sign ups on myanonamouse, they’ve got an extremely extensive collection of rather rare ebooks.
if not, annasarchive and the sources on fmhy are very useful.
I’ll give that a go, thanks, I have time
the electronic library. for suggestions about titles, I usually browse the locus and the nebula prizes
I scout them regularly, so that’s perfect, thanks
It’s not piracy but https://freeread.de/@RGLibrary/ERBurroughs/ERBurroughs.html
Z-library has a 10/day limit, but is a neat source to find books.
Mint, thanks
Torrents are sometimes organized under an author’s name for their collected works
Archive.org has a bunch of public domain/commons books in e-reader formats
Torrent. Go on your favourite torrent site, google your favourite author, download their entire collected works.
Baen free library. You want SciFi? Baen has DRM free books before amazon existed.
