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This forum is for books, e-books, audiobooks, novels, novellas, short stories, personal narratives, hypertext fiction, interactive fiction, games that are stories, and such.
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by Radishrain
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Here is a selection of websites and resources that I’ve personally found useful in finding free e-books and audiobooks (note that some free books offered at some of these sites may not be family-friendly):
• Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ (large selection of primarily [#]public...read more
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by Radishrain
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There are various types of books that are each generally targeted at a specific age group. Let's enumerate them here:
• Adult (18+)
• New adult (18 to 30)
• Young adult (12 or 13 to 18)
• Juvenile (0 to 11 or 12)
• Tween (9 to 12)
• Intermediate (8 to 12)
• Middle grade (8 to 12)
• Jun...read more
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Today, I was reading on my Kindle Fire HD 8 sixth edition via Word Runner on the Kindle app. When you pause Word Runner, it has a mode where you can just scroll the whole book left to right, with your finger, on one line. I decided to try reading like that (even though it's probably intended as ...read more
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by Radishrain
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LibriVox.org is my favorite place to find free, public domain, audiobooks. They are read by volunteers. I've volunteered as a narrator, too. The selection is vast, and steadily growing.
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Books by Amanda Minnie Douglas (I haven't read any of these, yet, but I'm gathering information about her books and then I plan to gather information about her; the links contain e-books, audiobooks, and/or scanned books that are probably public domain; the dates are publication dates and/or cop...read more
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by Radishrain
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I started researching her before the other authors, for reasons I should expound when I have better time to do so.
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M6HR-7ZS
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Turner_Curtis
• https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?t=73407&f=1&s...read more
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by Radishrain
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Edna Adelaide Brown (1875 to 1944)
• A Brief Sketch of the History of Andover
• At the Butterfly House, August 1918, ©1918 (Illustrator: John Goss): https://archive.org/details/atbutterflyhouse00brow/page/n10
• Four Gordons, August 1911, ©1911 (Illustrator: Norman Irving Black; dedicated to...read more
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27 Oct 2018 at 11:28pm
I had an epiphany, today. One way to get practice writing more descriptively is to write what you see. I mean, you can watch a movie, or a show, and write down what you see like it's a written story, with special focus on the things that aren't just scripted dialog. Of ...read more
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by Radishrain
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LibriVox (librivox.org) is a place where you can volunteer to narrate public domain audiobooks (for everyone to use for free as if the recordings themselves were public domain). You can also download and listen to audiobooks that others have recorded.
Useful links:
* https://wiki.librivox.or...read more
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