Best ebook site ever (ok, only one I know of)

http://www.ebooksclub.org

I buy books from either amazon or abesbooks.com

http://www.amazon.com
http://www.abesbooks.com

I also use amazon for reading book reviews, but I'd like to know of several other sites I could check out as well.

Also, here's a poetry site I used to post at:

http://poets.unknowncommunity.com

If anyone's got any more links like this one, that would be great.

I used http://www.ecampus.com/ for used books. I've gotten a bunch from there for pretty cheap. Get books for about 2-5 bucks each, including shipping.

Thanks, this is a good one.

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http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

A bunch of free e-books

EVERYONE GO SIGN UP HERE NOW http://www.shelfari.com/invite/BImL7TI$GhFRxA8bOXFP-A

It's kind of like last.fm but with books. I just signed up, and it seems pretty cool. And we can be friends. Book reading friends. <3

p.s. On the right hand side of the page it says that I wrote the following: "I just joined Shelfari to connect with other book lovers. Come see the books I love and see if we have any in common. Then pick my next book so I can keep on reading" I didn't write that shit, they wrote it for me.

Eh, the idea isn't bad, but it doesn't look like that site executed it very well.

Shelfari? It's still in beta. I imagine they plan to really fix it up once it's not so new.

Well I'm fucking addicted to it.

Hmm, did not know that. It's definitely got potential. I'd like it if it had a different, semi-separate section for movies, as well.

The problem with sites like these is that there's so many of them and it takes so long to add books. There are so many apps like this for Facebook... it's nuts. But since everyone else is using this, I guess I will too.

You mean like DVDAF or Flixster?

Hell if I know. Too lazy to google those. I just think that one super site with subsections for different mediums would be bitchin'.

And I am liking this shelfari jive more already. Definitely many kinks to iron out, though.

Wrong board for this, but...

dvdaf: http://janesnacks.dvdaf.com/

and then flixster.com is stupid so LOL

Got some new links, though I suspect this topic is a bit dead.

http://dearreader.com/
Sign up for any of the email book clubs listed on this site and every day you get a 5-minute sample from a book. By the end of the week, you'll have read 2-3 chapters, and if you like it, you can go check it out at a library or buy it or whatever. It's pretty cool, and I just joined 5 clubs this week, but I'm thinking about going down to 2 because it's kind of annoying when I check my e-mail and there are a million excerpts from a million books.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/
From my library's website: The world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. You can read and listen to contemporary English-language poets and poets from the past.

http://www.reader2reader.net/
A site for readers to share opinions about books - what you loved, what you hated, and what you got stuck on.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Pretty cool site, though I don't think it's popular enough to work very well. Basically, you take a book and register it with the site. They give you a number and you put it inside the book. Then, you leave the book in a public place where someone will find it and enter the number back at Bookcrossing. It's neat, kind of like a wheresgeorge.com type of thing, but like I said, I don't think it's catching on with enough people. Also, I just joined it and it seems to be a bit like Shelfari as well. I like the look of Shelfari better, I think.

http://www.dailylit.com/
This e-book site charges you to download a bunch of the books, but the reason I'm listing it here is because a lot of the classics are considered public domain, so they are free.