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How Free is Free?


Early in the morning i glued my fat ass on a chair and never changed my gaze into the direction of the computer. I realized that it's been a while since i basked myself into the land of books. i've never read any book since summer except for the blog posts and online articles. i thought of maximizing my remaining week to expand my vocabulary and at the same time add on a book to my list of favorites. And since i don't have any book in hand, i decided to download a free e-book.

i google-d quickly to find some links and i found few sites to quench my thirst for books. i tripped into www.manybooks.net and was glad to have downloaded the whole chapters of The Phantom of the Opera for FREE. Then I tried Paolo Coelho's and found out that the site only offered old published books. I wasn't contented so i went to another site, I found this www.ebook.com and saw all their catchy statement. it said, "Search your ebook or submit your ebook, it's for free." then i browsed through a couple of the editors' choice and found The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks a must-read one. I remember reading A Walk to Remember by that author and thought that this book would be as marvelous as the one i read.

Alas! I was able to download the ebook and the reader in a dnl. format. I was so moved by the prologue alone and continued reading the first chapter. after the chapter, guess what? a pop-out box eventually appeared asking for my personal information and exact address so they could send me the ORDER. hell, order what? i downloaded the book for free. it never emphasized that only one chapter was free. now, tell me, How Free is FREE?

6 comments:

Joebs said...

Haha, a lot of sites really have interesting tricks -- especially when it comes to "FREE".

Reading your entry reminds me that i have to read a book soon too!lol. (wait does that sound weird).. i haven't read a book for ages. O.O I got bored with Stephenie Meyer's the host. Haha.
I wanna read A Walk to Remember. Although i've seen the movie it's always better to read the book, ne? xD

April ♥ said...

Haha.. Ano ba un sis ung 1st chapter lng pala ung libre aw. Ano ba book ang gsto mo? baka makatulong ako ibigay sau ung pdf file :)

Shanne said...

@ Joebs: The book's cool. =) you better read it sis.

@ April: Sis, THE NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks or any book you have there. thanks sis. :)

Louise Viray said...

Shanne & Louise, "We shan't tolerate to these corrupt deeds! You'll go down by May 10, 2010!!!"

I still want my Phantom of the Opera! Useless have-beens! Prejudiced domains! Give me my soxal book-on-screen-with-classical-music-on-the-background!!!

Shanne said...
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Shanne said...

im HERE, here.. saying HEAR, HEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!