If you're into reading (not much, I presume sadly...) one of the things that you might do to improve your skills is make the most of the possibilities that the Internet offers. Too skint to afford that thick book you were craving for, desperate to find out what happens? Not willing to waste any more money on books?
Well, you're not likely then to read the latest fiction but if you just want to read for the sake of it, because it broadens your mind and to learn more English, these are a few websites where you can either download books in pdf. format or else read them online or even get them in e-format if you happen to be one of those early adopters who buy the latest gadget, the newest in-thing, and you have one of those e-book readers that -I foresee- one day will take over paper books, then a relic of the past.
Freebookspot is an online source of free e-books download. You can search and download free books in categories like scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many other books. No registration is required to download free e-books.
Free-eBooks is an online source for free e-books, you also download free magazines or submit your own e-book. You need to become a Free-EBooks.Net member to access their library. Registration is free, though. You can read Moby Dick by Herman Melville or some Dickens too.
ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader. Why not read Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë? This novel is a must! Of course you can find Jane Austen too. And if you're an anticapitalist you can handle The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels...
Planet PDF A small collection of classic novels all in PDF format. You've got some Hawthorne, Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, D.H. Lawrence. Ever heard of them? Classics of British and American Literature they are!
Planet eBook -Free classic literature to download and share. You can read 1984 by George Orwell (Big Brother is watching you!) or Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (don't even think for a second it's a book for children, even though you probably read one adaptation when you were little.)
Scribd is just a bit different. It's actually an online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document, a slideshow, a book or anything that someone has just uploaded to share with the rest of the world. You need to register to have access to the materials, but it's free. Try typing down, for example, English Advanced Grammar in Use in the Search box and hey presto! What d'you get? 350 pages of free grammar practice.
You might also be interested in Audiobooks. If reading is such a drag just prick up your ears for the words of well-known fiction writers while you're commuting or gone for a jog or a stroll down the park. I'll be supplying you with some stuff next...
That's all.
'I love to read' photograph by Carlos Porto. See his gallery at flickr
You might also be interested in Audiobooks. If reading is such a drag just prick up your ears for the words of well-known fiction writers while you're commuting or gone for a jog or a stroll down the park. I'll be supplying you with some stuff next...
That's all.
3 comments:
It is a good purpose but I definitely prefer paper books. It is very tiring to read from the screen. When I am at work and I have to read something more than 2 leaves long I have to print it.
Does it happen to you?
Amazing Mikel! I can't believe you are able to do that... Respect the environment!!
But I have to say that I don't like to read, but when I used to do it, I read books, not e-books or something like that!
Peace for everyone
Palma Tocón. 1st advanced,group M.
Like both of you, I prefer to read books in a traditional way. But, I think that I'm going to download some e-books and puting them in my ipod. It might be interesting for me, now that I had less time than before.
Ah, thanks Carlos for giving us so many resources to improve our English. You really work hard!!!
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