Turns out there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such thing as a free book.
I recently got a Kindle (the old kind, tanpa layar sentuh atau 3G atau layar warna atau apa pun) untuk magang saya kerjakan. Saya pikir saya akan mendapatkan beberapa buku untuk dibaca sementara aku berada di itu (mungkin juga menggunakan Kindle untuk apa itu dimaksudkan), jadi aku membuka Kindle Store di Kindle saya dan siap untuk membeli beberapa buku.
Buku pertama pada daftar adalah Homer Pengembaraan, yang saya sedang membaca di kelas bahasa Inggris. Saya menggulir meskipun beberapa hasil mencari salinan termurah. $12.50, $2.50, $0.00, $1.00, $2.00… hm, Sepertinya saya akan mendapatkan $1 satu… menunggu, apa yg?!?
Itu betul – there was a completely free version of the Odyssey available on the Kindle Store. I selected “download”, and in a few seconds The Odyssey popped up on my home screen. Simple as that.
I figured that this was, after all, itu Pengembaraan, so it would definitely have a free version available. How about less-famous The Count of Monte Cristo? Yup, free version available too. The Art of War? You guessed it.
I spent an hour happily browsing through the free store (you just need to know which book you want) and filling up my Kindle with free stuff. At the end, I had the following on my Kindle. Tidak terlalu buruk.
- The Odyssey of Homer, Homer and William Cowper
- Moby Dick, atau, the whale, Herman Melville
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- The Art of War, Sunzi
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
- The Time Machine, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
- The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Yup, if you just search the titles, you’ll find that there are free versions available. There are probably plenty more well-known books with free versions available that I didn’t include here.
Omong-omong, if you registered the Kindle with the same e-mail that you use for your Amazon account, Anda bisa find books online and have them sent to your Kindle. So you can get free books without even having to have your Kindle with you. Neat, huh?
Ah, I love free stuff. Especially free books.
