Reading is the most powerful tool we have for connecting people, sharing experiences, becoming more aware and increasing our knowledge. With all of us being shut into our homes, close to our family and being responsible for reducing the risk of COVID-19, it becomes important to have access to proper knowledge, awareness and yet, retain our sanity.
eBook is a relatively new concept for me too, I am still very old school in my approach and love the touch of actual books, and this new technology can never overtake that. But, just out of pure boredom and curiosity, I downloaded Amazon Kindle and started reading a book I had to review which I had been ignoring for weeks. Some pages into it, and I began to think about the prospect of doing this more, of giving eBooks a fair chance. Now that I am at home, and even though my TBR pile rises everyday, I just got intrigued by this concept. And voila! 7 days in, and I have already finished 4 eBooks!
eBook is a relatively new concept for me too, I am still very old school in my approach and love the touch of actual books, and this new technology can never overtake that. But, just out of pure boredom and curiosity, I downloaded Amazon Kindle and started reading a book I had to review which I had been ignoring for weeks. Some pages into it, and I began to think about the prospect of doing this more, of giving eBooks a fair chance. Now that I am at home, and even though my TBR pile rises everyday, I just got intrigued by this concept. And voila! 7 days in, and I have already finished 4 eBooks!
So, I thought why not share with everyone else also what apps they can have access to in these days, and get into the habit of reading. We are almost always on our phones, why not make the best of it and inculcate a new good habit.
Given below is the list of apps you can access to while we all Quarantine and Chill;
- Amazon Kindle
You can simply download their free app and access any books you’ve purchased on Amazon from anywhere, lay in your bed and read!
You can get access to sample of any eBook for free, can choose your preferred font style, size, etc. You can view magazines, newspapers, and textbooks with high-res color images, make and share in-page highlights, adjust screen brightness and page color for comfortable reading. And have access to any local library eBooks.
- Wattpad
The Wattpad allows you to enjoy works well-known greats and up-and-coming novelists from the Wattpad community. You can even start writing and sharing your own story to get feedback from others. This is something that I really liked in this app, and which other apps don't provide. You can save your favorite stories to take them with you wherever you go, sync your account to pick up where you left off on your phone, laptop, or tablets. The app is free, with in-app purchases.
- Scribd
An announcement was made by Trip Adler, CEO of Scribd a few days ago saying that we all can now have free access to their online library amid COVID-19. Their digital library contains thousands of bestselling titles from practically every genre imaginable, including true crime, travel, romance, lifestyle, career, money, current affairs, personal growth and what not! Scribd also has access to audiobooks, whose narration speed you can customize as per you and also set a sleep timer. You can add notes, annotations, and bookmarks, customize your font size, type, and background color, and have syncs across multiple devices.
- Free-eBooks.net
This was one of the earliest websites I came across when I was researching for free eBooks. This is a website which gives us access to any 5 eBooks of our choice, every month. Audiobooks are also available for us to enjoy, other than various kinds of books in genres like- fiction, non-fiction, classics etc. You can also download textbooks from this!
You can access it from here: https://www.free-ebooks.net/
- Manybooks.net
This is another website that I came across; it provides books for offline as well as online reading. It also has a many genres like- fantasy, young adult, science fiction, horror, romance, etc. And the book can be downloaded in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more, other than their online eReader.
You can access it from here: https://manybooks.net/
In these crazy days it is very easy to become restless, lose our mind, and do anything reckless. But please, for your own safety and for everyone else's too, do adhere to all the rules, follow them religiously. Do what you have been wanting to do since so long but never got the time, learn new things, revisit old habits, and obviously, read and educate yourself more!
No comments:
Post a Comment