My ever-expanding eBook library has reached 1500 volumes and continues to grow. Fictionwise, my secondary source to purchase eBooks has had a 50% rebate special, so I’ve bought several new books about publishing. In addition I’ve added quite a few public domain offerings from Manybooks, Feedbooks, Munsey’s, and MobileRead Forums.
Some of my most recent titles are: An Egyptian Princess by Georg Ebers, The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy, and Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I have always loved books. In our house, we have a bookshelf (at least one) in every room, including most of the closets. Though I’ve given away most of the paperback books that I’ve read over the years, I love keeping my books, rereading them, looking at them, and smelling them. This may sound weird to you non-bibliophiles, but true book-lovers know of which I speak.
Now that I’m into eBooks, I’m trying to build an impressive eBook library. I’ve added a few books almost every single day. I try to download at least one book a day from Manybooks, Munsey’s, and Feedbooks; and download several from Mobile Read Forums. I check the Finding Free Ebooks blog and the Ebooks Just Published blog every day. Plus I buy books from various eBook sellers– notably the Sony eBook Store and Fictionwise. As yet, I’ve spent less than $100.00.
My goal is to have a library to rival the fabled library of ancient Alexandria. It is supposed to have had up to a million scrolls, representing tens of thousands of books. Call it 50,000 for a nice round number. I’ve got a way to go. I just passed the 1250 mark.
Always on the lookout for sources of free eBooks, I never the less somehow overlooked Munsey’s. Here you can find 20,000 unusual and hard to get titles in a variety of formats. This is an especially good place to find the “racy” detective stories of the fifties and sixties, such as the title pictured above. And they add on average, eleven titles a day. You can find Munsey’s Here.
City of Amathar 