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Post by Kath on Feb 26, 2024 13:15:51 GMT
Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I only recently discovered Prime Reading. If you have Amazon Prime you can 'borrow' certain books for free. There's a limit to the number of books you can borrow, but you can 'return' them when you're done and borrow more. I've been using it for a while but found out today that there are also a number of magazines you can read for free too. Just search for Prime Reading once you've logged into your account.
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Post by peterob on Feb 26, 2024 15:39:53 GMT
Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I only recently discovered Prime Reading. If you have Amazon Prime you can 'borrow' certain books for free. There's a limit to the number of books you can borrow, but you can 'return' them when you're done and borrow more. I've been using it for a while but found out today that there are also a number of magazines you can read for free too. Just search for Prime Reading once you've logged into your account. I used to have, co-benefit of another subscription, membership of Safari Bookshelf which does a similar thing. You could have up to 5 books out at any one time. It was mainly non-fiction and I used it for programming references mostly, because I used to code, however I found Jeff Schewe's The Digital Print on there, which was useful. For fiction our Public Library offers a similar and free service although it is a struggle to find anything readable. Annoyingly they change service provider every now again, same books but different access software. I think that some publishers must make a number of books available for a small per-access fee as a means of attracting readers and hence leading to sales of print-only books. There are few established authors amongst the on-line crowd and long waiting lists for some titles. It wouldn't surprise me if Amazon is swimming in the same pool of on-line books. |
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Post by don on Feb 26, 2024 20:26:46 GMT
I never knew about the magazines, I’m off to see what’s available
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Post by Kath on Feb 28, 2024 8:59:56 GMT
It included Digital Camera magazine which I've never bought before but which has given me some ideas for themes for the photography group I run.
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Post by lesleysm2 on Mar 2, 2024 19:58:30 GMT
You can get something similar on Kindle Unlimited, you pay £7.99 a month and can take up to 10 books at a time or it could be 12 and once read return them
Won't find too many well known bestselling authors on there but I've found a few writers I'd not discovered before on there
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Post by don on Mar 8, 2024 12:03:38 GMT
Some of these books are complete rubbish.
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Post by spinno on Mar 8, 2024 13:10:19 GMT
Some of these books are complete rubbish. That's why they're free |
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Post by don on Mar 8, 2024 14:19:57 GMT
Some of these books are complete rubbish. That's why they're free Ahh I get it now Good stuff you have to pay for but the rubbish is free, it makes sense from a business point of view but I’m sick of reading crap novels maybe I should just read magazines??? |
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Post by Kath on Mar 8, 2024 14:25:25 GMT
Some of these books are complete rubbish. That's why they're free In fairness, I've paid for books which turned out to be complete rubbish before as well. In one, the author changed the name of the lead character part way through. Then changed it back again a few chapters later. In another, we skipped a decade or so. |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Mar 8, 2024 18:54:00 GMT
In fairness, I've paid for books which turned out to be complete rubbish before as well. For some reason "The Casual Vacancy" by J K Rowling springs to mind |
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Post by andy on Mar 8, 2024 19:22:34 GMT
In fairness, I've paid for books which turned out to be complete rubbish before as well. For some reason "The Casual Vacancy" by J K Rowling springs to mind I'm guessing it was at least sold as fiction....Lance Armstrong published a book about how he didn't cheat before he got caught. I'm still waiting on my refund for having been mis-sold. |
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Post by spinno on Mar 8, 2024 20:23:37 GMT
For some reason "The Casual Vacancy" by J K Rowling springs to mind I'm guessing it was at least sold as fiction....Lance Armstrong published a book about how he didn't cheat before he got caught. I'm still waiting on my refund for having been mis-sold. Did he peddle it? |
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