eBooks for Holidays

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It’s no secret I’m all for the printed word, for real books both for academic and recreational readings – they don’t need electricity, I can freely underline, mark… However, I have to admit that digital books also have advantages and, right now, besides the environmental issue, the economic reasons top my list (and maybe yours as well!). Having said that and taking into account that what really matters is that we / our kids / our students read and not how we / they do it, why not share some links so that we all read something during the summer break?

So, with no excuses, read free and legal ebooks anywhere, any time.

Try these links and choose for yourselves:

http://www.planetebook.com/ - the home of free classic literature

http://www.intechopen.com/books - over 1800 scientific books

http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - all the 150 books can be viewed for free and most can be downloaded for free as well. The titles in the collection are appropriate as supplemental books, more for mathematics and science than for the humanities.

http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search - google hosts thousands of books that are in the public domain; many of them can be viewed and downloaded in their entirety for free.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ - Project Gutenberg has over 40,000 free ebooks in English and there are also over 500 in Portuguese at http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/PT_Principal check Os Lusiadas at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27236  

The next one is also a very good source for ebooks in English or in Portuguese

http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/PesquisaObraForm.jsp and at  http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/pe000004.pdf  - you can check Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa

Strange enough is this link http://purl.pt/index/geral/aut/PT/index.html  but worth visiting, Biblioteca Nacional Digital, from where one can also download Mensagem, de Fernando Pessoa http://purl.pt/13966
Besides the titles already mentioned above that many of our sts will need to read for next schoolyear, check the next link where you can find 1900 free and legal ebooks - by Portuguese authors as well as, among others, some plays by W. Shakespeare but in Portuguese:
http://utilnet.blogspot.pt/2009/03/1990-livros-para-download-gratuito.html 

For those who for any reason don't / can't read, don't give up, because there are audiobooks! Please check AudioLiterate where you can select either from the featured audiobooks or by category. Just stream it; it's free!

Well? Any suggestions?

There are many more, but the ones above have just been checked thinking about the holidays as well as a kind of preparation for next school year :D

I’m sure we all want our students to read. According to them, in the age of digital devices, books are old fashioned, outdated and some may even fear being teased by their peers. Why not give or send them links for free (and legal) ebooks they can read on their smartphones / tablets / PCs?

Enjoy… Enjoy your holidays and your Readings!