So I’m off on holiday soon, and my x4 e-reader is conspicuously devoid of unread sci-fi. Can anyone point me at a good source? I’ve checked the easily findable places

Local library, best free source of ebooks I've found out there, and it's perfectly legal.

Z-library has a 10/day limit, but is a neat source to find books.

fmhy dot net

if you've got the spare time to wait for the open sign ups on myanonamouse, they've got an extremely extensive collection of rather rare ebooks.

if not, annasarchive and the sources on fmhy are very useful.

annas archive is very nice

Has anyone found a way to use the ebooks without Amazon? Every one I've joined has used Libby to access Kindle books and I haven't found a different way to access the content.

Torrents are sometimes organized under an author's name for their collected works

Archive.org has a bunch of public domain/commons books in e-reader formats

this is the only one you need to know, tbh. its an amalgamation of mirrors of basically every other public archive

MAM is great if you can get in

There's an extension for Calibre called DE-DRM that works in the majority of cases.

I download for reading and either just read with the adobe DRM still there, or strip the adobe DRM to have a clean epub file.

Don't know about amazon, haven't encountered Libby using that.

the electronic library. for suggestions about titles, I usually browse the locus and the nebula prizes

https://open-slum.org/

All the best shadow libraries

Yeah I second that , huge selection of ebooks,audiobooks, and more just using a library card and you can get it digital also from libby or Hoopla. Free linkedin learning also

I would suggest, unsolicited as it is, to visit some place in the world, and leave the internet behind for a couple of weeks.

Anna's archive is a cheaper thrill that enables one to join the long tradition of being pseudo-cosmopolitan through reading

Sure. OP made it sound like they have a job that gives 2 weeks paid vacation, and if that's the case, go somewhere cool. If you are not in that position, yes, what you say.

They’re bringing books, not the internet. Some people enjoy reading books in their spare time.

I scout them regularly, so that’s perfect, thanks

Thing is, to get to the place that I’m visiting, I have 20+ hours of flying each way, and a months worth of reading in bed to do when I’m there. If I took enough books to keep me occupied, I’d need to pay for extra baggage

James Clavell is great for historical fiction. I would skip Shogun to start, and start with Tai Pan.

Heck yeah, that’s a brilliant site, thanks. I haven’t sailed the high seas in a long while, I don’t consume much media these days that’s not physical, so that’s a really good shout

That’s a fantastic shout, I’ll get down there tomorrow

Mint, thanks

I’ll give that a go, thanks, I have time

Perfect, thanks

Baen free library. You want SciFi? Baen has DRM free books before amazon existed.

https://www.baen.com/allbooks/category/index/id/2012

If you use Soulseek, you could do a search for a generic word and then filter it to .epub files and see what it finds

Thank you for this.

lots of useful posts above but

not sci fi so much but Project Gutenberg has lots of old stuff, by that I mean Dickens, Joseph Konrad etal

my gfs currently reading Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" from there and loves it.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

but for Sci Fi there's Wells etc

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=h.+g.+wells

and they do have a science fiction category

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/638

if you mean library books ? i use Kobo and it has Overdrive for e-Library access to my local library, works even overseas and I thought it might be geolocked. (I travel SE Asia 8 months a year on the cheap)

I just use Calibre and plug in via USB for the 10,000+ebooks i have.

It's not piracy but https://freeread.de/@RGLibrary/ERBurroughs/ERBurroughs.html

Is it possible to remove the drm from overdrive?

Usenet via Evan Buss's Openbooks

You can use a caliber extension called DeDRM to remove the DRM from ebooks your local library provides. As a bonus having active members helps them secure funding to provide valuable community services.

That being said I don't browse for books, I decide I want to read X and then get bummed when my local library doesn't have it. The shadow library basically has everything, and yiu can see which instances are up at https://open-slum.org

Yes, there is a De-DRM extension for Calibre which will automatically strip DRM when you import files into your Calibre library.

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I don’t browse that much either - I find authors that I enjoy and then launch myself down their back-catalogue’s rabbit hole. I buy a lot of books, but for travelling I want things to be easier, and to try some of the things I’m not sure I want to spend money on

If you add it as a telegram bot your limit is 20. Then it will also deliver the files via telegram.