Just as emailing, blogging, texting, twittering, and using Facebook have made people write more, the recent explosion of online e-books has increased access to diverse reading materials, thereby allowing people to read more. The good news for many is, there are freebies galore. On Christmas Day, Yahoo News shared a piece from Mashable, a site devoted to news about our runaway web culture, that lists six sources where you can find free e-books of both fiction and nonfiction. Acting on the tips, I easily found and even downloaded a few for my upcoming travels. Here is an example I found on Google Books: The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson. Although the free version is dubbed a preview, it is only missing two chapters.
So in addition to Happy New Year to you all, Happy Reading to you and, perhaps, your students.
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