Before considering cheap books, consider free books. After all free is better than cheap. If you need a classic or a work that is now in the public domain, you can download more than 100,000 free ebooks at www.gutenberg.org and its partner sites. While gutenberg.org is my favorite, you should also check out getfreebooks.com and manybooks.net. While an ebook will never measure up to a real book in my mind, ebooks do have some advantages. They don’t take up a lot of space, and the search function is especially useful in locating a particular passage.

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