I don't know of any way to get free books without leaving the house, but there are some cheap sources. There is PaperbackSwap.com for example and there is ThriftBooks.com. You can even get some pretty cheap ones at Amazon. A lot of books on sale there from third party sellers that are low in sales rank sell for a penny apiece. Now that does not mean that you can really get them for one cent. The shipping cost is $3.99, so the actual cost is four dollars. Recently I was on a site that I normally do not frequent, Craig's List, to place an ad for someone else and as long as I was there I went browsing the ads and one of the first ads under the books category was a lot of several hundred books. The price for the whole lot was kind of high, but when that price was divided by the number of books it was really cheap per book. There were also some single books for sale at varying prices. I only suggest Craig's list as something to look at, not a guarantee of cheap books. For that matter, there is eBay. In the books category there is the sub category of wholesale lots. On a per book basis these books can be just a few cents apiece too. The problem with buying these bulk lots, though, is that you have to take the whole lot all at once even if you don't want all of them and quite a few are likely to already be in the Bookshare collection. I would advise perusing the titles in the entire lot and comparing them to the Bookshare collection and deciding if the ones that might not be in the collection are worth buying the entire lot. There are other sources around the web too that I don't remember the URL's for like Book Mooch and some others that I don't even remember the names for. You might want to google around for some key phrases that might lead you to books like "free books" or "trade in your books" or whatever you can think of and then examining what you come up with that might be promising. If you find any really good sources you might want to report it here too. Another possibility is to find the title of a book that you want to scan and then look for that. OpenLibrary.org purports to be trying to create a page for every book that has ever been published in all of history. Well, they have a long way to go, but they do have tens of millions listed. That would be a good place to browse for books that no one has ever heard of. They often have links on there book pages that you can click to find out what libraries or even on line booksellers might have the book too. But just googling the title might lead you to places on line from which you can acquire the book. There is no guarantee that it will be cheap or free, but you just might find some source from which it is.
On 7/26/2012 8:05 AM, Regina Alvarado wrote:
I am really considering trying to scan. I have only scanned a couple of times. Can I scan in Word properly? Do libraries send out books to the house? I will ask my sister-in-law to keep an eye out for old books, but if we buy them before I check, that will be difficult too. I am totally blind and would need to pay ADA to get to a library or even to a bookshop. Any other ideas on how to procure books without the wonderful liberty of a car? Rambling I know. I do not even know if we have the room for me to scan here, but I know we need scanners, and I feel the need to step up! Won't be as good as Evan, Larry, Mary, et al., but I sure can try! Reggie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:10 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: New 3 hold maximum in check out queue The trouble with that is that it would likely encourage unnecessary holds. Like I said, I think we already get a lot of unnecessary holds. When someone announces that they have a book ready to upload and asks who wants it that is an unnecessary hold. If you are going to place a hold on it for the first person who asks for it then why place a hold on it at all? The overwhelming number of books on the checkout list have holds as it is. These suggestions of keeping some kind of form that people can state the kinds of books that they would like held for them seems to be steering the checkout list toward nothing but holds. There would be no room for a new volunteer to just browse it and try out proofreading. On 7/25/2012 9:56 PM, Ali Al-hajamy wrote:Great idea. Then people could get in touch with volunteers, new or old, who they know would be interested in whatever they've scanned, and this problem would be minimised. On 25-Jul-12 21:54, Ann Parsons wrote:Hi all, Tracy, have you made an effort to get to know folks here? Have you let anyone know the kinds of books you're interested in proofing? Have you put out an announcement on the list as to what you'd like to proof? A scanner cannot know all proofers, and may not know that you're interested in proofing a given type of book. Maybe what we need is to have volunteers write blurbs or fill out forms where they say what types of books they like. Just a thought. Ann P.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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