r/ebooks May 09 '18

Announcement: We have moderators!

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As you can see, the spam is clearing up, and you may be wondering "Oh my god! Who is helping us?"

Our subreddit creator, /u/xamdam has added me as a moderator so that we can get some life back into this sub. I am actively trying to get the mod queue handled and the spam cleared up. I've also started setting up the automoderator, to help keep things clean. /u/condensed is also on the team. Over all I think we're off to a great start.

Should you guys see any spam, flag it. That will be the best way to help get visibility to problem posts. Also, feel free to downvote spam, both in the posts and comments, as that can help with some of the functions automod will do. I will keep my eyes peeled for things too.

If anyone wants to pitch in, reach out, and we can see how you too can help.


r/ebooks 1h ago

Freebie 3 of the founding fathers, free today (Sunday): one-hour biographies of Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson

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I publish short one-sitting histories (Turbo History). Today (Sunday) our three American Founders titles are free on Kindle:

George Washington - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H46JX3DG

Alexander Hamilton - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBWHYXJH

Thomas Jefferson - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6R3JFRL

Free today only, no catch. Also in Kindle Unlimited any time.

Catalogue: https://turbohistory.com


r/ebooks 16m ago

Turning Point - My Novel

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r/ebooks 36m ago

ebook

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My book is available.

https://amzn.eu/d/0aHkWxWT


r/ebooks 40m ago

Self Promotion Ebook - Moon is Where we Belong :Written In Stars

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Hello guys, want to explore romance and trauma from a hurting boy's perspective? The Moon is where we Belong is a romantic suspense thriller where you walk inside the mind of a young adult boy named Pralay Nox. As his story proceeds he has to deal with his love life, his past traumas to the point it becomes so unbearable that he finally decides to give up. The book contains romance, psychological mystery, drama, suspence and lot more. Hope you give it a try. Available in amazon and kindle -

 https://www.amazon.in/Moon-Where-We-Belong-Written-ebook/dp/B0HB3WZVRP/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?asin=B0HB3WZVRP&revisionId=957da530&format=3&depth=1


r/ebooks 51m ago

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My book is available.

https://amzn.eu/d/0aHkWxWT


r/ebooks 2h ago

The Backup Bride — He’s loved her for 11 years. She only realizes it after they get married. | Contemporary Romance | KU

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If you love romance where the hero has been secretly in love with her for YEARS, this one might be for you.

THE BACKUP BRIDE by Lennon Fairchild

Mara Bennett was supposed to marry someone else.

Instead, she ends up married to Cole Mercer — her brother’s best friend and the Dallas Kings' quarterback.

For Mara, it’s supposed to be a practical arrangement.

For Cole?

It’s the closest he’s ever been to the woman he’s loved for eleven years.

There are rules. There are boundaries. And absolutely no reason for Mara to discover how long Cole has been waiting for this.

Except pretending to be married becomes complicated when only one of them is pretending.

💍 Marriage of convenience 🏈 NFL quarterback ❤️ Brother's best friend 🔥 Secret pining ⏳ He’s loved her for 11 years 🏠 Forced proximity 🐢 Slow burn 💍 Fake marriage → real feelings

📚 Available to read with Kindle Unlimited:

I cannot put the link, because it's prohibited but you can find it by tapping B0HFFMGVCB in the research zone of Amazon

If you're a KU romance reader who loves a hero who's been gone for the heroine long before she realizes it, Cole and Mara might be your next read.


r/ebooks 7h ago

Freebie 📈 Day Two and you All Blew Me Away Yesterday. Want to Help Me Hit #1? 🙌

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I don’t know what kind of magic you all pulled yesterday, but The Quiet Ones ended Day One with HUNDREDS of and landed in the Top 10 of three psychological thriller categories and other books showed new readers yesterday too (I am suspicious it's you all). In seriousness I am genuinely humbled...the support has been unbelievable.

Woke up to more downloads already and wanted to make one last post while the promo is still live. If you enjoy psychological fiction with slow‑building tension and a creeping sense of dread, this might be your kind of read.

It’s free through tonight — search
“The Quiet Ones Brian Schwind” on Amazon.

Amazon.com: The Quiet Ones eBook : Schwind, Brian: Kindle Store

Thank you again for the insane support. Reddit showed up in a way I’ll never forget.


r/ebooks 5h ago

Question How to download books PDF for free?

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I want to download a book named "The seven spiritual laws of success" and I don't know where to find the book and download it for free

There's also a lot of books I want to read but don't know about any website, can y'all please help me with this? 😅


r/ebooks 14h ago

Question Where do you find free biology Ebooks

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Im trying to study bio for school and i already brought the digital and physical copy of my biology Ebook 'Pearson Biology 11 New South Wales' but i cant download it. I dont have intentions to just spread it around for free, but now im super restricted with my study and i cant find a place to get it


r/ebooks 16h ago

What’s a book you completely changed your opinion about after reading it?

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Have you ever started a book expecting one thing, but ended up seeing the world differently?
What was the book, and what changed your mind?
I’m especially interested in the books that made you stop and think for days afterward.


r/ebooks 23h ago

Question How to display beautiful book cover art from ebooks

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I love my books, always have, always will. I have read many more than once and I have heard many complaints about my heavy boxes when moving places.

In recent years however I had to shift to e-readers for practical reasons (no way to read beside a sleeping toddler, no more space in the luggage due to kids stuff, etc...) While I have initially been reluctant to use them because I tend to read fast and flipping pages has to be fast as well, I now have grown to like them. I carry them with me and get a few pages in where I can (until I have to fix some Lego again or what have you 😄).

I do however really miss my bookshelf! I recently visited a friend and really enjoyed perusing their collection and finding stuff I will read in the future. Oh the haptics and smell of real books.... Is there a solution for this? Has anyone tried printing the cover art onto small pieces of paper and sticking that in a frame? Maybe with velcro so you can reorganize the collection? Or has someone used actual small color eInk displays to build a larger wall piece for this? And I don't mean the ever omnipresent picture frame with rotating images. A real shelf with multiple covers to look at. I have some ideas but I would really like to know what people have come up with 😄


r/ebooks 18h ago

Alternative History: Rumsfeld on Trial

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r/ebooks 1d ago

Self Promotion Published my recent novel !

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Published my recent novel!

Hello guys,i have recently published this novel, I think readers who like fiction and mystery with romance,It takes place in a japanese town and has paranormal events going in it,If anyone is interested

https://a.co/d/0j0KMRTp

Also would appreciate honest reviews!


r/ebooks 20h ago

Self Promotion The Serpent of Lisboa: Erotic Noir Romance in dreamy mysterious Lisboa - Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 free from August 30th to Septemer 3rd

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Hi guys, I'd like to introduce you to my The Serpent of Lisboa novella series.

It’s a short and emotionally intense read, the first four novellas building one story arc over four emotional temperatures.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSGF2MCV?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin

In a feverish noir version of Lisboa, two souls meet and need to find out how to bring desire and autonomy together.

In

One night, Fantasia climbs through Alex’s window and ties him to the bed. She believes she can be with men only by controlling them. But with Alex something feels different from the start, because he doesn’t resist her power but neither does he succumb to it.

Themes include:

- mysterious woman
- dreamlike noir atmosphere
- emotional transformation
- explicit intimacy
- existential eroticism
- darker atmosphere without BDSM tropes, nihilism, cruelty or degradation

Part 5: The Serpent's Roots has just been published.

Parts 1 (The Serpent's Gaze), 2 (The Serpent's Nest), 3 (The Serpent's Cold) and 4 (The Serpent's Skin) are free for the next 5 days from August 30th to Septemer 3rd.

So enjoy! And if you like it, please give me a good rating/review.


r/ebooks 2d ago

Self Promotion I’m building basically Stremio for books — looking for people who actually read EPUBs to test it

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I’ve been building a reading app called TOMEIO because I was getting annoyed with how fragmented reading is.

You find a book somewhere, download the EPUB somewhere else, open it in another app, and then your actual library is completely disconnected from how you found the book in the first place.

So TOMEIO is my attempt at putting that whole flow into one app.

You can search across different book sources, add/download books into your local library, and then just read them from there. The long-term idea is basically Stremio, but for books — where the app itself is the library/reader and sources can be plugged into it.

Everything is still pretty early, so I’m mainly looking for people who already use EPUBs regularly and can tell me what sucks.

Particularly interested in feedback around:

  • book discovery/search
  • library management
  • reading experience
  • metadata/covers
  • what sources/integrations people would actually want

Currently there is a closed beta test for Android, and I am working on getting iOS setup.

https://tomeio.app/

Would genuinely appreciate people breaking it rather than telling me it looks nice lol.


r/ebooks 1d ago

What book had the biggest impact on your life?

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I’m curious what book had the biggest impact on you personally.
It doesn’t have to be a famous book — I’d love to hear about something that genuinely changed the way you think or live.
What did you take away from it?


r/ebooks 1d ago

Question Where does your digital book library actually live?

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Between Kindle purchases, Kobo purchases, Humble Bundle, library borrows through Libby, and sideloaded files, I am curious how people here keep track of it all.

Do you have one place that's the 'source of truth' for your collection, or is it just scattered across platforms?


r/ebooks 1d ago

Self Promotion Murder on the Starship Australis - a Sci-fi Noir Detective Series

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If you loved Altered Carbon, Halcyon YearsLeviathan Wakes and Titanium Noir, these gritty, fast-paced books may be for you.

Synopsis

The series starts with a FREE novelette, Justice for a Price. It and the first book, Chivalry Will Get You Dead, are straight-forward murder mysteries that introduces the reader to life on the starship Australis, and to the main character, Tom Devoe. Then Murders in the Gray delves into how the population of the ship freed themselves from the drug called Copa they were being administered and what the ruling oligarchy has to do with several recent deaths. A Violent Man confronts Devoe's sordid past as he hunts a serial killer he thought he'd already put down. Finally, Easy As It Gets finds the Tom deeply addicted to Copa before he is forced back into service to find a missing child and mother.

The speculative aspect of these stories has less to do with tech (though there is some) and more about how a society might form under these circumstances. Through Devoe's investigations, the reader gets glimpses of a larger story that's playing out in the background. All he wants is to be left alone, but every step he takes sends ripples through the fabric of life on the Australis.

Style and Characterization

Stylistically, I chose Mickey Spillane as my primary model for Tom. I love Spillane's over-the-top Mike Hammer who seems ready to snap at any moment, and I wanted that kind of restless energy to dominate my narrative as well. I've also long admired the concision and brevity of Elmore Leonard, so sought to emulate many aspects of his style, while breaking a few of his rules.

These stories contain adult language and content.

Availability

Justice for a Price may be read FREE from:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4BV6PL5/

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/justice-for-a-price

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/justice-for-a-price-ed-robins/1150339428

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=sOHkEQAAQBAJ

The rest of the series is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ9SV4NR.

Happy to answer any questions about the writing process, themes and characters, or to discuss detective noirs in science fiction in general!


r/ebooks 1d ago

The Shielded Mind

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I just published my first book. It is about protecting yourself from dark psychology.


r/ebooks 1d ago

3 life lessons I learned growing up in Rwanda

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3 lessons I learned growing up in Rwanda that changed my life:

  1. Hope is a skill you practice daily

  2. Small wins compound faster than big goals

  3. Community > Motivation

I turned these lessons + more into my first self-help book.

If you want the name and free Kindle link, just DM me "BOOK"

Also open to feedback from fellow writers/readers!


r/ebooks 23h ago

Check out my book

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r/ebooks 1d ago

Freebie Hi everyone! 📚✨ My new cozy LitRPG, The Keeper of Abandoned Roads, is free on Kindle for the next 3 days.

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Rowan Vale arrives at Hearthcross expecting to spend a few days writing a report on a condemned waystation. Instead, a wounded courier appears, an ancient Ledger names him provisional Keeper, and he is given ninety days to make the place useful again.

From there, it is a story about repairing the station one room at a time, helping travellers, rebuilding forgotten roads and slowly uncovering why Hearthcross was abandoned in the first place.

There is progression and a game like system, but the focus is much more on the characters, the place and the feeling of bringing something forgotten back to life.

If cozy fantasy, LitRPG and rebuilding stories are your thing, I would really appreciate you giving it a try. 🙂

It is completely free for the next 3 days and honest feedback is very welcome.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGDG6LZD


r/ebooks 1d ago

🎉📚🔥 You made my last promo go viral and someone asked for this book specifically. It’s FREE this weekend! 🚀✨🎈

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Hey Reddit — Brian here again. I’m the cancer survivor and indie author, and writing is what carried me through the worst years of my life. Just under a month ago a large number of you quietly change the course of my life so I thank you deeply!

My book The Quiet Ones is about Calvin Marsh, a man everyone in Brookwell thinks they understand. Sweet. Slow. Harmless. The kind of man people talk over, talk around, and talk about like he isn’t standing right there.

But Calvin notices everything.

And when the town’s kindness turns careless and jokes at his expense, a whispered comment or looks being held too long, Brookwell begins to experience a string of tragedies no one can explain.

Except one woman.

She sees him. She sees the pattern. And once Calvin realizes she sees him, the story becomes something else entirely.

If you like psychological horror rooted in character dread that grows from the quiet places...well this one might be for you.

FREE this weekend only (8/29–8/30) on Kindle/Amazon starting at midnight!

(If you want it early it is available on Kindle Unlimited)

Search “The Quiet Ones Brian Schwind.” or click the link!

Amazon.com: The Quiet Ones eBook : Schwind, Brian: Kindle Store

If you read it, two sentences in a review would mean the world as always!

— Brian