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The TFP free ebooks offer until Sunday March 18th

Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by cynthetiq, Mar 17, 2012.

  1. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    A publisher approached me offering free ebooks to the TFP community. The following books are free from Amazon until March 18th. Unfortunately, these are kindle only books, this means you'll need to have a Kindle or access to Kindle reader on your device or PC.

    Since I have an interest in this, I figured I'd pass this onto the rest of the community.

    Enjoy!
     
    cynthetiq, Mar 17, 2012
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  2. fflowley

    fflowley Don't just do something, stand there!

    Hey, that's cool. Thanks.
    I do a lot of my reading from the free books list.
    There's great classics on there.
     
    fflowley, Mar 17, 2012
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  3. Jove

    Jove Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Michigan
    Cyn: You are now my temporary best friend.
     
    Jove, Mar 17, 2012
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  4. CinnamonGirl

    CinnamonGirl The Cheat is GROUNDED!

    Location:
    Central Republic of Where-In-The-Hell
    Fan-TAS-tic! Thanks, cynth!
     
    CinnamonGirl, Mar 17, 2012
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  5. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    Sadly I don't have a Kindle. Interestingly, it was the proprietary format stuff that made me choose a different device in the first place.

    If they made it available in epub I'd be a happy man.

    Also, let's everyone take a moment and remember that Project Gutenberg is and always will be free.
     
    martian, Mar 17, 2012
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  6. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    I really like manybooks.net: sleek browsing, reviews, recommendations, and way more available formats. It accesses the stuff on gutenberg.org from the 2003 DVD archive. It will create your preferred format on the fly. If I had an ebook reader, I'd be using that site.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Mar 17, 2012
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  7. Scud

    Scud Vertical

    Location:
    Belle Vernon, PA
    Now you all have planned the rest of my weekend for me... TFP 1/Productivity 0
     
    Scud, Mar 17, 2012
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  8. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    Here is a comment from the publisher. He is quite excited to be sharing with us and wanted to address those epub considerations.

    :):):)
     
    cynthetiq, Mar 17, 2012
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  9. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    I wasn't aware the the publisher was reading the responses here. Nor was I aware of NetGalley. I'll check it out.
     
    martian, Mar 17, 2012
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  10. Daniel_

    Daniel_ The devil made me do it...

    Location:
    The United Kingdom, naturally
    The same titles are also free on Amazon.co.uk, if (like me) you are registered in a real country, rather than the USA. ;)
     
    Daniel_, Mar 18, 2012
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  11. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    That's great to know!
     
    cynthetiq, Mar 18, 2012
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  12. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    I did not know about the PC version of the Kindle reader before but have it installed it now. Downloaded all of the titles above and will try to get to them as I make time to read books on the computer screen. They all sound interesting just from the descriptions.
     
    Speed_Gibson, Mar 18, 2012
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  13. Remixer

    Remixer Middle Eastern Doofus

    Location:
    Frankfurt, Germany
    Fucking hell.

    I want all those books. But I'm in Germany and my main computer in Afghanistan.

    Make me an exception or something. :D
     
    Remixer, Mar 18, 2012
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  14. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    You should be able to just order them and don't download them yet, that's all.
     
    cynthetiq, Mar 18, 2012
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  15. Remixer

    Remixer Middle Eastern Doofus

    Location:
    Frankfurt, Germany
    Hah! Just as I thought the issue got fixed, I log into my Amazon account and find Germans are excluded from the offer.
     
    Remixer, Mar 18, 2012
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  16. Nefir

    Nefir New Member

    Location:
    Leesburg, VA
    Wow, that Germany thing is a bummer. Have you tried going the NetGalley route? Admittedly, not all their titles are there, but I'm pretty sure you can do this from anywhere in the world.
     
    Nefir, Mar 25, 2012
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