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AllyFizzle
05-05-2010, 10:51 AM
I recently started reading Eat, Pray Love and have misplaced the book and so badly want to finish it but am away at college and have no money and am miles away from any library or store. Does anyone know of any free Eat, Pray Love e-book sites?

Also just any free e-book sites for newer titles. The classics are always pretty easy to find and I have read a good amount of them already.

Thank You!

lyni
05-07-2010, 11:04 PM
have you tried googlebooks?

ktm5124
05-08-2010, 12:16 AM
google books, project gutenberg, this very site itself

MANICHAEAN
05-08-2010, 04:50 AM
One I stumbled across was "The Burgomeister's Books".

Jozanny
05-08-2010, 07:07 AM
Ally, I understand the feeling about *newer titles*, as I cannot even buy selected titles for my e-reader; with living authors it seems to be a mish-mash between older works out of print and only a few selections available in digital form; for titles not in the public domain, however, Google will allow limited viewing, although some academic texts are nearly wholly available.

Someone needs to come up with a viable online lending library system soon. Amazon is suing Google, btw, over Google Books, and it would be an interesting case to track, as book selling and publishing are already under significant economic stress.

Sebas. Melmoth
05-08-2010, 08:25 AM
An 'e-book' is rather a collection of pixels on an electronic screen--pitiful in my estimation.

There is no substitute for a real book of bound pages printed in black ink on white paper.

MANICHAEAN
05-09-2010, 08:39 AM
Sounds a bit like the saying. " Women are all right, but you can't beat the real thing!"