{"id":120,"date":"2007-04-09T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-04-09T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T13:02:08","slug":"this-is-convenient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"This is convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A set of links to various places to acquire free books. I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedbeef.com\/2007\/04\/02\/top-10-best-places-to-get-free-books-part-1\/\">original link<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/books\/top-ten-sites-for-free-books-250410.php\">LifeHacker<\/a>, and there are more links provided in the comments there. Following the original link, I noticed a link to part 2 on the left, as well as a link to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedbeef.com\/2007\/04\/09\/best-places-to-get-free-books-the-ultimate-guide\/\">the ultimate guide<\/a>,&#8221; which includes all the comments they&#8217;ve received so far.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these are e-books, which I&#8217;m liking more these days. I started having to use reading glasses about ten years ago, and the nice thing for me about e-books is that I have control over the font size. There&#8217;s a lot to be said for physical books, and even after having given away a few hundred of them, I still have a few thousand &#8211; many more than the average American. And I know people whose libraries hold several times the number of books I own.<\/p>\n<p>I used to have a bunch of links to on-line book sites, and I still do, at work. Most of them are links to individual books on programming or other technical subjects, though. One that I used to have was to Black Mask Online, which is apparently no longer there. Using a similar name is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackmaskmagazine.com\/index.html\">Black Mask Magazine<\/a>, which looks promising, although I don&#8217;t know if they intend to be an on-line magazine or a print one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/library\/defaultTitles.htm\">Baen Free Library<\/a> listed &#8211; I&#8217;ve downloaded almost everything there. Some I bought hardcopy for after reading, some I owned hardcopy before I downloaded them (see above), and some I haven&#8217;t bought hardcopy for yet (and may never). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/library\/palaver_index.htm\">Prime Palavers<\/a> are very interesting to read, as well &#8211; some very good thoughts on copyright, the network effects, and why some books are in the library and others aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of links to various places to acquire free books. I found the original link at LifeHacker, and there are more links provided in the comments there. Following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}