Mar. 26th, 2020

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In case you haven't seen it yet, the Open Library is now the National Emergency Library, which means you can borrow ebooks with no waitlist. They've got over a million books--I did a broad search last night for science fiction and fantasy, and they've got a ton of books, both well-known and obscure, from the mid-1990s and further back; adult, YA, middle grade, and kids. Especially when I got to the 1970s and 80s, it was like scanning the shelves at my childhood library and bookstore trips.*

Formats tend to be epub, PDF, and encrypted daisy for print-disabled users. [[personal profile] rachelmanija points out this online ebook conversion service for other formats. Don't know if there's DRM on the books that will stop it or not.]

Robotech books! Star Trek novels! A bunch of other good and terrible books! If there's something that's out of print that you've been trying to get your hands on for a while, it's worth searching for it here. [personal profile] yhlee I saw The Visual Guide to Amber by Zelazny and someone else. I was reminded of tons of books I'd forgotten about. There's even this odd book I read years ago that was written by someone who was a Cepheid* before I was, and who set it in a thinly-disguised future version of College Station/Texas A&M, IIRC.


*Cepheids = members of Cepheid Variable, the science fiction club at A&M that ran Aggiecon for years.
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In response to my post about the National Emergency Library (see one post back), [personal profile] rachelmanija is challenging people to:
1. Look up a year of your choice, and report back to me in comments about books you remember.

2. Download a book, read it, and report back on it in your own DW or here, as you wish.

3. Challenge me to read and report on something of your choice!

4. Post this in your DW, and let your readers challenge you.
Not sure I'll have time to actually read books I get challenged on, because I've got the day job and a backlog of covers to work on, but I'd be happy to see your posts and comments, here on your own DW, or on [personal profile] rachelmanija's post.

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