Today's Google Doodle celebrates Bram Stoker's 165th birthday, the Irish author best known for his vampiric creation, the gothic novel Dracula.
As I have often suggested in former blogposts, one doesn't need to spend money to read - that can only be considered an excuse (and a bad one) once there are different sites where you can get ebooks as these - public domain - legally and freely.
Again and again, Project Gutenberg offers over 40,00 ebooks you can download and here is Dracula, by Bram Stoker: 1. Choose format 2. click on download link 3. Done!!! You can read it any time anywhere.
Another possibility is http://dailylit.com/, a fantastic website I haven't mentioned before, where you can get installments of books and decide HOW, WHEN and WHERE to receive them! You browse books (by title, author, category) or enter search terms. In this case, Dracula is entirely free and has 176 installments - click here to check it and try it out for yourself! Weekend is coming, why not choose to start reading an installment on Saturday evening and another one on Sunday? Register and decide whether to receive these 176 short installments by email or RSS, the days you feel you can / want to read, the time... everything really is in (y)our hands. Have a go and let me know.
Happy Reading :=)
About Me
- Teacher Alex
- Portugal
- I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources. I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.
1 comment:
DailyLit is a really useful webtool for reading! I've already registered and started receiving my first installments :)
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