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Jenny, honorary mod - inactive
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Dec 20, 2008 12:29PM
Know any good websites for book lovers? Apart from Goodreads of cause!
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ - want to know if your favourite author has a new novel coming out, want to know what other books your favourite author has written? Find out here!
http://www.readitswapit.co.uk/TheLibr... - from the UK and have books you want to get rid of? Swap them here!
http://www.book-clubs-resource.com/gu... - lots of links to online reading guides. Perfect if you are due to lead a book discussion!
I have jsut had an email about a new bargain book website. It's based in the uk. I took a look and it seems really good. The prices are brilliant. Most of the books are under £5 with a lot only £1. They also gave me a code for free postage which is BAN209. I don't know if it's one that will only work for one person but it's worth trying out. The address iswww.bananas.co.uk
I have been spending lots of time on www.bookreporter.com
The review section is huge, they are well written (for the most part) and they cover a large variety of books. The only downside I have noticed is, there is no way of really... sorting through the reviews, they are just straight up alphabetical order, with all the genres jumbled together. It's not that bad though, as it has prompted me to read reviews on books I normally wouldn't have. I am not even through the books beginning with A and I have a page of books to track down at my library!
Tina,That's a great site! I see myself spending a lot of time looking through reviews and collecting books for my "to read" list. I've already added it to my favorites. Thanks for posting it!
GreenMetropolis is good. All books are secondhand and all cost £3.75. Postage is usually free on a regular sized paperback but can be more if it is a bigger book. I got my copy of Rose of Sebastopol from there this morning and it is in "as new" condition as described. Excellent. (Based in the UK).www.greenmetropolis.com
www.paperbackswap.com is a good place to trade books, but I think you might need to be in the US to use it. How it works is you create an account and list books you are willing to mail to another reader. If someone selects a book from your list and you are willing and able to mail it you receive one credit for sending it to them. You use one credit for each book you request from another member. You can set up a wish list and wait in line for books you want to read and you also have the option to buy credits if you don't have any. It works out to be less expensive than Amazon.com and other sites like that.
Might be US only, but for a good selection of books and sellers (from housewives like me to big sellers like Better World Books), and dirt cheap starting prices, I always first try: http://www.half.ebay.com/
Please drop by www.the-reading-list.com, the blog of an ex English professor writing a memoir about her favourite novels and how they have helped her journey to happiness and self-discovery.....
Little, Brown Book Group:
http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/home
Don't know if this has already been suggested, but the above link is pretty good. Second best compared to Goodreads in my opinion, but worth checking out all the same.
http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/home
Don't know if this has already been suggested, but the above link is pretty good. Second best compared to Goodreads in my opinion, but worth checking out all the same.
Tina wrote: "I have been spending lots of time on www.bookreporter.com
The review section is huge, they are well written (for the most part) and they cover a large variety of books. The only downside I have..."
I see what you mean about everything being all jumbled together, but does look like a pretty good site. I saved it for further exploration! LOL
Lots of novels in this site . I got all the bestsellers from therehttp://www.downloadvilla.com/novels.html
I just came across www.bookbub.com. You can sign up for daily emails which contain e-bookdeals (either free or very cheap) of genres you're interested in. You can also say on which device you read, so you get only deals that are compatible with your ereader. Seems like a good website! Although I just found a book which was advertised for $1.99, but apparently that doesn't apply to all retailers, as it is indeed 1.99 at Apple, but over 4 euros at Google, and around €2.50 at Kobo.
Not quite a website, but seems a good place to put it. Stumbled upon this one. Someone's kickstarting a Jane Austen MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). Personally I like my games with more action, fantasy and puzzles/challenges/feats to work out, but if you like things like Second Life, and Jane Austen, you may be interested http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3...
Rusalka wrote: "Not quite a website, but seems a good place to put it. Stumbled upon this one. Someone's kickstarting a Jane Austen MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). Personally I like my g..."
Hmmm... I don't see any rogues.
Janice wrote: "Hmmm... I don't see any rogues."LOL your default class hey? Rogues are plausible. They had swords and daggers. Who knows what Mr Bingley does in his spare time.
I can't see any of the Bennett sisters secretly being a mage (my default) however...
It's possible there were rogues and I just didn't see them. After all, they can meld into the shadows. Or the helpful mage teleported them somewhere far far away.
Rusalka - that is the wildest thing I have seen in a long time! I watched his review of Wuthering Heights, The Sun Also Rises, and Pride and Prejudice. I book marked it watch some of the others for later. I may even suscribe! Who knew!!!!
And I just found this great google map by Edinburgh City Libraries of Around the World in 81 D.Is. You must look if you enjoy mysteries/crime novelshttp://ow.ly/BpTGS
So funny, Mariab. And SO true! I'll share the link in another group, where we have discussed all this points before. It will be interesting.Thanks for sharing.
I recognize a few of my idiosyncrasies! LOL!
wtf2read.comI came across this site earlier today... https://wtf2read.com
You can filter the search by the book genres you like and the site gives you the first page of a random book (without revealing the title). If you like the sound of what you read, you can choose to reveal the book's identity.
I recognised a few of the books from the first page (1984 for example) but I was surprised at some of the books that caught my interest.
I doubt many of us have problems adding books to our TBR list, but I spent a happy half an hour browsing anyway and waned to share!
Fantastic website, Annerlee! I recognized several and had read more than I thought. I even found a few that were on my TBR list.
Very cool website, Annerlee!
I like the idea of the site. When i wrote my book blog, i participated in a book meme in which I had to write the first paragraph of the book i was reading and then others would comment whether or not they would read it based on that paragraph. Ooh. That might be a cool idea for a thread on here.
