Do computer geeks still read?

[sabang]

I can get all the movies and series I want off Vuze. But books? not on your nellie. The selection is very poor indeed. As best I can see, thats pretty much the case in all torrent sites.

The best I've been able to find is a non-torrent spot :-

FreeBookSpot | Download e-books for free


Theres a lot of chaff- I mean , if you're the sort of person who is fascinated to find out about stuff like 19th century Norwegian tapestry, or how to build your own American colonial spinning wheel, you might just be in heaven here. But theres some good stuff too, and I'm glad to gave found the site..

This is not to say it resembles the Library of Congress. If anyone knows of any decent resources to nab books off the net, I'd love to hear about them. Do geeks still read?

[Norton]

This one is pretty good.

www.mininova.org

[chitown]

I love my Kindle!!

[harrybarracuda]

There's 5,000 items listed here but obviously some crap in there.

Isohunt

[PlanK]

What kinda books are you lookin' for?

There's loads of techie e-books out there, the classics might be a bit thin on the ground.

[Marmite the Dog]

I've only ever read one E-book that wasn't something like a motorbike repair manual (even though I printed the entire thing out at work).

Paper still rules.

[The Fresh Prince]

Paper still rules.

Nah, Audio Books are the way forward. Load one up onto your phone or ipod, stick you're headphones in and read with your ears. This leaves both your hands free. One for a beer and one for a smoke.

[sabaii sabaii]

Heres the top 100 from the BBC

BBC.Top.100.eBooks (download torrent) - TPB


1984, George Orwell
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Aliceâ??????s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Dubliners, James Joyce
Emma, Jane Austen
Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Grimm Brothers
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
Holes, Louis Sachar
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Les MisÃ???©rables, Victor Hugo
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garc
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Memoirs of Fanny Hill, John Cleland
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garc
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Tales of Terror and Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
The Provost, John Galt
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Stand, Stephen King
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams

[sabang]

Bump. Sorry, neglected this thread a bit. Thanks for the responses too.

What kinda books are you lookin' for?

General interest really. I've not found a site that can be considered anywhere near comprehensive, my interest was originally piqued because I wanted to look up a couple of well rated VN war histories, and recent works by Chalmers Johnson, and one or two other authors that have slipped my mind. No luck there.

But, with a bit of flexibility and patience you can still get plenty of decent stuff. Off 'Free book spot' (link in post #1)-

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
James Lovelock - Gaia - A New Look at Life on Earth
Freakonomics.-.A.Rogue.Economist.Explores.the.Hidden.Side.of.Eve rything.-.S.D.Levitt, S.J.Dubner.
Bicycle Diaries (Travel) David Byrne
Griftopia Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, Matt Taibi
Wilbur Smith- collected works
Neither Here nor There Travels in Europe (Travel) Bill Bryson
Investing online for Dummies
Seeing further_ the story of science & the Royal Society


Thats just a random selection that I've downloaded so far- it will take me ages to read that lot.
Enuff to keep most bibliophiles happy, if you ain't too fussy. 'Free book spot' is the best single site I've found, still. Navigating the site is a bit cumbersome, but thats fun for the bibliophile- kinda like rummaging through an old book shop. Quite a few audio books there too.

If online resources can be used as an indicator, it does seem though that reading has largely been replaced by the idiot box.

[Gerbil]

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

33,000+ eBooks... all legal (just expired copyright - just about any classic you can think of)

[Boon Mee]

Paper still rules.

Nah, Audio Books are the way forward. Load one up onto your phone or ipod, stick you're headphones in and read with your ears. This leaves both your hands free. One for a beer and one for a smoke.

Indeed.

There's thousands here: https://signup.easynews.com/

[9999]

Here's pretty much every book on learning Thai...

Thai and Lao Language Learning Pack (Updated)

[sabang]

^ Wow- nice find.

[9999]

So yes our geeky generation does read books, more than anyone ever, but it's usually on the screen, or lying in bed reading a laptop, kindle or ipad.

[Neo]

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[Neo]

Paper still rules.

Nah, Audio Books are the way forward. Load one up onto your phone or ipod, stick you're headphones in and read with your ears. This leaves both your hands free. One for a beer and one for a smoke.

Well worth the wait..

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[Neo]

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