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6584166 No.6584166 [Reply] [Original]

What's a good way to get free books?
>too poor to buy any good books
>local library has crap selection
>don't have a car to drive to nearest b&n to shoplift

What am I supposed to do?

>> No.6584190

buy a used kindle on ebay for like 30 bucks

>> No.6584197

Pirate them online.

Failing that steal physical copies from nice ethical targets like Barnes & Noble.

Or, y'know, use a library or some shit, whatever works for you.

>> No.6584233

>>6584166
Your local library.

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6584401

>>6584190
>kindle

>> No.6584425

>>6584166
I work at goodwill
Books come everyday
Especially last week, where the local library donated a bunch of old books that were "taking up space" or whatever. No one bats an eye if I take a couple books. Recently took older prints of the hobbit and cat's cradle. Lots of Anna Karenina for some reason...

>> No.6584443

You can find pretty much any 'famous' novel from the 1950s or earlier online by just googling '[x] full text'. If you want to get more obscure works or nonfiction academic books, can't help you there.

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6584445

i download books for free online and read on a 5.5'' phone

>> No.6586285

>>6584401
Are they making nike socks?

>> No.6586289

>>6584401
And? Do I have to pay all these people? Who gives a shit, mane

>> No.6586295

I usually steal them from barnes and noble or other chain bookstores. I probably wouldn't steal them from a charity store like >>6584425 because they're like 2 dollars each at goodwill where I live.

>> No.6586302

I work as a janitor in a college dorm. Sometimes I steal textbooks from students dorm rooms and after I've read them I sell the ones that don't interest me.

>> No.6586305

>>6584443
>nonfiction academic books

libgen.org for textbooks and academic papers

gotta love the ruskies

>> No.6586533

>>6584401
Pretty much everything you use is made either by slave labor or by machines that leave countless workers on the street, so who cares at this point?