I stopped at one those little boxes on a post with a roof that contained free books in my neighborhood and got a copy of “The Shipping News”. I have not read for “entertainment” for a very long time. My work was reading things I needed to know in order to do my job, which entailed even more reading. When not working; reading was not something I wanted to do more of. “The Shipping News” is brilliant. I almost quit at the beginning because all the characters were so wretched and awful I did not want to continue. The story starts getting a little brighter and I am sucked in now. Hopefully, renewing my reading habit towards more enjoyable books will pull me away from screens. There are enough books in thrift stores and I notice “Little Free Libraries” in towns and cities I ride through. They have an APP of course to locate the cutesy little boxes, and it is well worth getting.
I also found this resource of downloadable books for free. I am trying to avoid passive screen time by reading real paper books, but if this is a good list of free books to download.
List of 20 websites where you can download unlimited books for free:
1. Planet eBook
2. Free-eBooks. net
3. ManyBooks
4. Librivox
5. Internet Archive
6. BookBub
7. Open Library
8. BookBoon
9. Feedbooks
10. Smashwords
11. Project Gutenberg
12. Google Books
13. PDFBooksWorld
14. FreeTechBooks
15. Bookyards
16. GetFreeBooks
17. eBookLobby
18. FreeComputerBooks
19. LibriVox
20. ManyBooks