I feel so stupid. I'm reading this and thinking, "what? you can download books for free?" Had not considered that.
Oh, yeah. Bittorrent is chock full of the stuff. Not that I'm recommending it or anything - but yeah. Just letting you know. You can find all sorts of stuff there. I've downloaded things from there that were public domain books from Bittorrent, for which I feel no guilt at all.
Because I'm not bloody well not going to fork over money to some publishing company who slapped a pretty new cover on Paradise Lost or Oedipus, got some schmoe professor to write up his thoughts on yaoi in the introduction and priced it at 11.99 plus tax. Fuck that for two larks and a swallow. It's public domain and if someone has it in PDF format that I can keep for my own reference on my computer, all the better.
That's one thing. Certain books I want to keep either for reference or because I love them intensely, so the library is a less feasible thing.
Sometimes I think people might get the idea that just because someone wrote a book, that means they have crazy money. Not always the case so I think I'd rather just stay honest
There are a lot of wrongheaded ideas about how writing and publishing work, I think, in general. Not sure why, but I think it has something to do with TV and the general ignorance of the public on most things like that.
I wish audible.com would come down on their prices a wee bit.
Amen. If they weren't so damned expensive, I might actually buy stuff from them, but I like them. But alas, no. Things are tough all around and the belt must remain tight.
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Date: 2009-02-06 04:24 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah. Bittorrent is chock full of the stuff. Not that I'm recommending it or anything - but yeah. Just letting you know. You can find all sorts of stuff there. I've downloaded things from there that were public domain books from Bittorrent, for which I feel no guilt at all.
Because I'm not bloody well not going to fork over money to some publishing company who slapped a pretty new cover on Paradise Lost or Oedipus, got some schmoe professor to write up his thoughts on yaoi in the introduction and priced it at 11.99 plus tax. Fuck that for two larks and a swallow. It's public domain and if someone has it in PDF format that I can keep for my own reference on my computer, all the better.
That's one thing. Certain books I want to keep either for reference or because I love them intensely, so the library is a less feasible thing.
Sometimes I think people might get the idea that just because someone wrote a book, that means they have crazy money. Not always the case so I think I'd rather just stay honest
There are a lot of wrongheaded ideas about how writing and publishing work, I think, in general. Not sure why, but I think it has something to do with TV and the general ignorance of the public on most things like that.
I wish audible.com would come down on their prices a wee bit.
Amen. If they weren't so damned expensive, I might actually buy stuff from them, but I like them. But alas, no. Things are tough all around and the belt must remain tight.