Let's talk about money!
Namely, the fact that I don't have a ton of it.
Haha!
Today I'm going to tell you how to get books for free or cheap.
So, Money!
Money, money, money!
If you are like me, you have a lot less of it than you would prefer.
Unfortunately, it is not raining like manna from the heavens.
It is scarce and hard to come by sometimes.
So I've heard a common complaint about Booktube: that it's just not very affordable.
You see a lot of these people holding shiny, brand new hardback books that they can hold
in their hands and talk about in their videos.
Well, I don't have that kind of money and honestly a lot of the booktubers don't have
that kind of money.
Maybe they're getting those books for free from publishers to help kind of promote the
book before it comes out.
Maybe they DO have that kind of money, I don't know.
But, I am going to tell you how you can find books to read for free or cheap.
Yes, you can feed your addiction without going broke.
Or as my kid would call it , "broke five broke.
We ain't
got it."
#1 is the Overdrive app.
This is probably the most handy thing and it's revlutionized the way I read, the way
I have access to books.
It's through the library, but if you are a busy, professional woman such as myself, or
man, you don't have time to always go to the library.
Ot another problem Iwas having was I would go to the library and then procrastinate in
returning the bookss and constatly be late.
ha!
Or I would put something on hold and not be able to get to the library in the 2-3 days
that it took before they reshelved it, to go pick it up.
So, the Overdrive app delivers the books directly to your smartphone, your tablet, whatever
device you download the app on, it works on Androids and iPhone devices.
What you do is put in your library number, you find your library on the app, add your
library card number, your passcode or whatever they require for you to get in, and then it
gives you access to the lending library of audiobooks and Kindle books.
Whaaaaat?!
Yes!
yes, you have full access to audiobooks and I say Kindle books, but they don't have to
be delviered to a Kindle.
They can be read directly on your device of your choice or just right there on your smartphone
using the web browser; however you best wat to consume it.
That's where I probably do 90, maybe 85% of my reading.
Um, it was either downloading stuff form that app directly to my Kindle or listening to
the audiobook on my iPhone.
It's SO handy.
So handy!
And free!
It's free!
It's through the library; totally fre.
And because it's all digital, you don't have to worry about going to the library to return
it because they just revoke your access to it and pull it back whenever time's up.
So you don't have to physically return it.
Although, the problem I run into is I go on a borrowing frenzy and then am not able to
listen to or read everything in time.
So that's one thing to keep in mind is that you may have to go back and recheck stuff
out wait in line for it to become available, and get to it then.
#2: Netgalley.com.
This is where you'll see some people getting advance reader copies (ARCs) of books.
Now, if you're not a huge booktuber, like for example, I'm not huge, people aren't sending
me stuf in advance in the hopes that I'll read it, I don't get anny sort of special
favors, so what I'll do is I'll go to Netgalley.com and if there's a book that's going to come
out in the near future hat looks good, I'll go ahead and put in a request on it there.
Now they do favor people who actually review books.
So if you have an account on Goodreads where you review books, if you give your ratings,
or if you have a blog like I have where you review books, again my audience is not very
big, so I don't get automatically approved.
In fact, I don't get approved for at least half of the stuff I request.
But, every now and then, I get some good stuff, like The Girl Before, I got to read Sophie
Kinsella's latest book before it came out, Fitness Junkie, I got to read that before
it came out...I've gotten some really good finds that people have approved me for, surprisingly
enough.
So netgalley.com.
get over there and you might be able to read some stuff before it comes out.
The only thing they ask in return is just an unbiased, honest review.
#3 is the Kindle, and I know this is kind of cheating.
This is not really free, nor cheap.
The thing is, you have to buy the Kindle, and then one of the free options that I'm
going to recommend, you have to buy the Amazon Prime membership.
So that's a $200-$300 right there before you've even started.
But, if you have a Kindle, which is the e-reader from Amazon, and if you have an Prime account
with Amazon, which is, I think the going rate right now is somewhere around $100 per year,
then they have a lending library
where they have lots of Prime books available for you to read for free
on your Kindle. Now, they used to have a limit of 1 Prime book you could borrow per month.
I don't now if they still have that limit on there, or if you can do multiples in a month.
But, there's that option.
You can also find a lot of Kindle versions of books for cheaper than you would find in their paper counterparts.
because it's digitized, their delivery method is a lot cheaper.
They don't have all of the production costs,
the materials, the shipping, all that go into it.
It's literally just a digital copy, so oftentimes, you can find a Kindle book under $10.
So, I know there's an initial investment with that,
but it's just so handy. It's so convenient!
I held out for the longest time on not getting a Kindle because,
as you can tell,
I love the tactile experience of reading.
I love turning the pages, pointing at certain things,
It's wonderful!
I held out for so long. But when I finally got my Kindle, it was like "What took me so long?"
If you get the paperwhite version, it's a lot easier on your eyes.
If you try to do your reading on Kindle Fire or an iPad, there'll be a lot more eyestrain because it's backlit.
The Kindle paperwhite is lit by different means, so it looks more like an actual page that you're looking at.
So I recommend it, even though technically it's not free or cheap.
But the books you can get afterwards are cheap.
Now, an honorable mention that I didn't talk about here because i've done a whole other video on this is thrift stores!
Used bookstores are great, too.
Thrift stores are where you can go to find a diamond in the rough,
you can find books that are out of print,
books that you might not have thought about doing,
but since it's only like $1 or even less, you might as well give it a try.
I have a whole video where I talk about thrift store finds.
I've found some funky books that I read that I never would have come across otherwise.
They're wonderful!
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