Dr. Jürgen Knödlseder
Sheril KirshenbaumSupport independent bookshops 📚
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Michael 🎇 
klmeow@[email protected] @Sheril https://www.indiebookstoreua.com/
Personally, I shop at Readeat; I absolutely love their service and support
Personally, I shop at Readeat; I absolutely love their service and support
unhammer
Steady Jed@Sheril Toronto’s bookcity.ca is an excellent bookshop
MBEverding@Sheril have you heard of momox? Second hand shop for books clothing dvd.
Árpád Fekete@Sheril I only like books that do not contain the terms "All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher or the copyright owner." If more people shared my principles, it would make such book retailers possible that exclude such terms from the books sold by them.
Lisa
RedAlert (Michael)
Andrew Briscoe@Sheril I just bought a couple books at Powell’s earlier.
Nine Stones Close@Sheril agreed… my e-reader got sent to the recycling centre quite some time ago. Wish people would do the same with music.
@Sheril @Sheril My band’s albums used to sell 2000 plus copies on cd and a good amount on vinyl too only 15 years ago. Now it’s a total waste of time pressing anything physical as everyone streams from Shitify and we get nowhere near recouping our costs of making an album, never mind making any kind of profit to put back into the band like we used to do. The arts are being slowly strangled by big tech.
GanondalfSeveral musician youtubers I watch have spoken of "the death of the middle-class musician".
I guess we're gonna have to acquire a new taste for cigar-box guitars and jawharps.
violettejeanAll my books are on bookshops!
Violette Jean is proud to be on their site
dxzdb
Quasit@Sheril
And if you don't have independent book shops in your area, you still have other options:
Online, Thriftbooks and Powell's Books are good. You might also check libraries in your general area; most of them sell books at very low prices to raise funds. I've made some great finds at library book sales! For used books, Biblio.com, BetterWorldBooks.com, and Biblio.co.uk are independent book marketplaces that serve independent book shops - NOT Amazon.
As for ebooks, you can borrow MANY ebooks for free from the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/texts
I'm always amazed that Barnes & Noble (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/nook-books/_/N-8qa) are still in business, but they do have a lot of books available for sale in EPUB format.
Kobo (https://www.kobo.com/) is another large ebook seller. They're based in Canada, but are owned by a Japanese company. They also manufacture their own line of independent ebook readers that are compatible with other formats.
Baen (https://www.baen.com/) specializes mostly in science fiction ebooks (and physical books). They also have a free library of ebooks. I've made some good finds there.
I haven't used epubBooks (https://www.epubbooks.com/) much, but they do seem to have a goodly number of free ebooks. I suspect that many of them are also available via Project Gutenberg, but that's just a guess.
The same applies to Snewd (https://snewd.com/) and FadedPage (https://www.fadedpage.com/index.php). FadedPage has some free ebooks that Project Gutenberg doesn't, apparently due to differences between Canadian and American copyright law.
Project Gutenberg is a treasure trove of free classics available in many formats; most of them are older books, but you can make some surprising finds. https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg Australia (https://gutenberg.net.au/) has some free books that aren't available on Project Gutenberg, since Australia has different copyright laws from the USA.
Standard eBooks (https://standardebooks.org/) hosts free public domain ebooks, many of which are sourced from Project Gutenberg. However, these books have been intensively cleaned up and are generally superior to their Project Gutenberg sources.
And if you're willing to fly the Jolly Roger, you can find virtually ANY ebook on Anna's Archive; look them up on Wikipedia to find their currently-functioning mirrors, as they're frequently attacked by various governments. It's still far more moral to use them than to give money to Jeff Bezos! He's put a lot of great used book shops out of business, treats his workers worse than animals, and is killing off the planet.
Happy reading! 🤓📖
#Books #Ebooks #FreeEbooks #AmazonSucks #AmazonAlternatives #QuasitBookRecs
Wasabi the Black Cat 😼I find as I am getting older (hitting 62) I do not read as much. But I did get all the way through Virginia Giuffre's memoir.
gut-wrenching.
So I do not dismiss books. I just find it a bit of a challenge to stay focused on the page. Probably a symptom of these damn "smart phone" thingies. So I keep mine turned off most of the time. I recommend that for all.
I should spend more time at my local library. I have been there a few times and it is a fine little institution.
Will
Lookie Loo@wannabemystiker @Sheril
In SoCal - Pasadena - Vroman's
2nd Floor has an amazing children's section.
https://vromansbookstore.com/
In SoCal - Pasadena - Vroman's
2nd Floor has an amazing children's section.
https://vromansbookstore.com/
Mousa Al Bateh | Cloud Security & Architect@Sheril I miss buying physical books till I had to move to a different continent and carrying the books became futile 😂
Дмитро Носаль@Sheril Wait, why does everyone react as if nobody was buying books from bookshops? Are you already buying everything in Internet?
Juggling With EggsIf you’re struggling to find where your physical bookshops are in the UK or you’re planning to do some book buying while on holiday here, check this out:
Also it’s Independent Bookshop Week coming up in the UK (17th to 24th June).
Some great children’s bookshops listed here…big shout out to #Norfolk Children's Book Centre. Was delighted day I discovered this place with my toddler twins…book heaven!
https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/childrens-articles/18-of-the-best-book-shops-for-kids
Simplescribbler@Sheril Kibworth bookshop, Kibworth, , Leicestershire. A lovely afternoon visit. Advice given on a book for a child of a particular ethnicity and age group. Was sold a superb humorous book that seemed a fine gift. A little way from home but I will make a trip monthly. Independent bookshops…Yay!