HOW TO READ CLASSICS ON A BUDGET | Classics Series
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- I offer my top tips on how to read classics for either free or for very cheap prices!
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I love buying secondhand books, they're probably my go-to when I need classic books. If ever I do end up loving the book, I buy a lovely copy from BookDepository :)
Charity shops are a good place for cheap classics, I recently bought War and Peace for £1! It's so huge I dread to think how much it would have cost new!
I love charity shops too.
I've found some wonderful bargains; collections of Orwell, Greene and Lawrence in fairly good, clean hardbacks, for 50p and £1 each!
Some books are "keepers", but I also donate those that I won't read a second time.
All excellent tips! In the States we have something very similar to Wordsworth called Dover Books, very inexpensive classics. Awesome video!
That’s so cool that the book was in library when Thomas Hardy was alive!
I love using LibriVox as well. And I agree Wordsworth classics are pretty good for the price.
I'm so glad you're talking about this because I think loads of people don't know you can access classics for free, I certainly didn't know about it for so long! I always have a couple of classics loaded onto my kindle in case I find myself somewhere with nothing to read. :)
This is a beautiful video, trying to encourage more people to read classics. I totally agree about everything you said about project Gutenberg and the Wordsworth Classics editions. The Wordsworth editions have really improved their quality recently and are just as good as Penguins in my opinions, but half or a third of the price! Keep up the good work Lucy, love your videos :)
I love Abe books! Gotten a ton of classics from them. Another way to get used books are thrift shops.
Thankyou for mentioning project Gutenberg..I'm now reading pride and prejudice on my kindle from there 😁
Loved this video! 90% of the books I read as a teenager were library books and then when I went to college and my budget was super tight I’d buy mass market paperbacks. I still keep my old cheap Jane Austen books because they have so much sentimental value lol
In the UK copyright lasts from the death of the author plus 70 years. I use a site called mobileread.com which is essentially a forum for those interested in ereaders; it also has a 'library' of hand-formatted, beautiful ebooks which are in the public domain. Go to the blue bar at the top, where it says e-books; use the drop-down menu to find the format.
The copies from MobileRead are better than those from Project Gutenberg because the typos etc have been eliminated. Try them, you'll see what I mean. For those new to ereaders you can get great advice.
I'm so glad you've mentioned that many classics can be legally downloaded for free.
As regards obscure books for research: try your town's/city's central library. I've used their systems when researching obscure subjects. If they don't have the book, they'll call it in from a nearby branch.
I know this video and comment are pretty old now, but Standard ebooks is also a good place to get quality out of copyright books. They take books from Project Gutenberg and format them nicely and give them nice covers and what not. They also give a nice blurb of the book and an idea of how long or how hard a book is to read so it's a good place for beginners to start.
I recommend Barnes & Noble here in the U. S. for reasonably priced classics. The hardcovers and paperbacks are often less than ten dollars. Libraries are the best for borrowing, and I would recommend doing that if you want to find out if you really like the book and perhaps wish to own it later. Used book stores are also excellent since they often have low prices and sometimes they have surplus classic editions in virtually new condition. It's worth checking out.
Librivox is great, I used to use it all the time. Sure, sometimes the readers aren't great, but I actually kinda think that's cool too in a way. Like, I'm getting my audio book for free and at the same time some dude is recording audio books to help to learn better English. I can forgive any mistakes just for how damn cool that is!
I love the Wordsworth edition. I bought The adventures and memoires of Sherlock holmes and The Forsyte saga and love the covers and the illustrations in them. I also listen to librivox while I read to improve my pronunciation because I'm italian and so, with really few euros I can read beautiful classics. I also buy in in little markets. Think that I bought ALL works by Shakespeare for just 2,50 euros and ALL Austen's novels for 2 euros. And many others at the same price. I'm so proud of my collection. 😍💖
LOVE this content!!
I FREAKING LOVE ABE BOOKS I feel like not a lot of people know about it so thanks for telling them 😃
There is another American website similar to the Gutenberg project and Librivox called archive.org . In addition to public domain books there are public domian movies, radio dramas, and music recordings available.
Also, ABE books is WONDERFUL. I usually search for hard-to-find gift books on there.
See Min Lim Ah, I was unaware of this. Thank you for the clarification!
I'm glad you talked about this. I have been wanting to get into classics, but they are always so expensive.
Hey Lucy!!! I've been watching your videos for awhile now and this is my first time commenting ahah. Just want to say that you inspire me so much to read classics and to broaden the genres of books that i read. Thank you so much and keep making quality content! xx
Hi Beatriz! This is such a lovely comment -- thank you! I'm so pleased that I've inspired you to read classics because that makes doing all of this so worth it. Thank you for all your support! xxx
You are a different perspective on CZcams. & At the same time with a small number of English accents.. and books.. beautiful..
Thanka for all the tips. I just discovered the Wordsworth Classics through Book Depository. Very affordable & nice to too for being on a budget. I recently orded Mrs Dalloway. Beautiful cover & look forward to reading it.
Thank you for this x
I buy a lot of my classics at abe.com also.The Penguin English library collection look really nice.The only thing is they don't have an introduction and explanatory notes.
Love this i read classics on an old Nintendo ds 100 classic book collection
I MUST HAVE that new edition of GREAT EXPECTATIONS with the black page edges. You showed it a few months ago.
Great Video , Lucy. I agree with you 100% Also would like to add Hoopla, and Overdrive to your list. They are apps from your local library and are able to check out e-books, kindle books, and audiobooks of classics and more.
you can read and listen to classics for free on the oodles app! You can download the book/audiobook (per chapter) and read or listen to them offline. they work via gutenberg too!
I read Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and H. G. Wells "The Time Machine". I thought they were very interesting.
Love this video ❤❤❤❤
For iOS users, iBooks is a fantastic resource for classics. Most classics are available for free. LibriVox is the perfect companion to iBooks if you also want the audiobook. Keep an eye open in charity shops too. Recently, I’ve bought a bunch of classics from the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen for 50p each.
On Amazon for Kindle, you can see the Delphi complete collection of various classic authors for under a fiver. This includes complete books, poems, short stories and essays by the likes of Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, Austen etc etc. However, your local library is the most important thing ever.
Agreed on Delphi Classics (and the local library!).
World of books is also a great ethical place to buy second hand books
Open library. Online lending service with scanned pages, so you won't find errors like you would find in project Gutenberg sometimes. Lots of old classics but also modern classics.
Thanks for the recommendation!
i get most of my classics in charity shops for very cheap/ (got Les Mis for a £!) also agree with Wordsworth additions buy Dickens/ other people that way
Hi! I just want to ask, do you know any classic fantasy books? Stories with magic or a medieval fantasy theme :)) thank you!
What are the Wordsworth Editions actually like? Are they any good? Student here (not an English student but I like reading)
There's also the wisehouse classics editions on the kindle store that are all free.
In the US, copywrite lasts for the life of the author + 90 years. It will be almost 70 years before new copies "On Beyond Zebra" by Dr. Suess, will be available. No Dr. Seuss collection is complete without it.
Have you ever read Belinda by Maria Edgeworth it’s like a Jane Austen novel but better.
My town has a free bookshop, check out Free Books Carmarthen...I've had so many great books from there and even came across great works I've never heard of before...Notable mention to Jean Rhys book 'Good Morning, Midnight' which brought me to 'The Yellow Wallpaper then Jane Eyre and soon I'll read Wide Sargasso Sea..
.Thank you Free Books Carmarthen.
I recently tried to read ‘The wind in the willlows’ and I really couldnt get into it. the writing was just really not for me
I use Librivox to listen to classics.
Thx for this. IMA read Dickens' Bleak House for the first time, and Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles for the second, during Vicktober. I'm also open to a Brontë novel suggestion.
Jane Eyre would be a good one and fits the criteria for all of the challenges!
I hope you enjoy Bleak House -- I haven't read it yet so I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.
betterworldbooks is a good second hand book site for cheap!
Apple Books is also a good source for free classics.
Cool. So eg. Orwell's books copyright runs out in 2025 in the UK. That'll make his fans happy. Here in Canada we only wait 50 yrs after the death of an author, so the works of eg. A.Huxley & CS Lewis have now been in public domain since Jan. 1/14., & eg. those of JRR Tolkien will become public domain starting Jan.1/24.
Wordsworth are ace... just DO NOT BUY THEM WHEN THEY'RE TRANSLATIONS!! They always use really poor translations. But for native English texts, go for it!!
@Prerna Singh When it comes to non native books you get what you pay for. The better the translation the more you pay generally speaking. So if you're going to buy those I'd either pay a little more and get a good translation, or do some research into the different translations and decide which you want to go for.
I’ve just bought their editions of ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ and according to a quick online search they use a translation for ‘War and Peace’ which was approved by Tolstoy himself (and it’s the same translators for both novels) so that’s good enough for me!
I just realized... you have great diction. You pronounce every consonant flawlessly. We Americans are lazy speakers. We don't articulate nearly as well you people across the pond.
I have to ask, are you concentrating on pronouncing every word carefully while on video? Or is that your usual and everyday mode of speech?
Great video.. Thanks.
Just get them from the library.
Show your books cover on hand steadily
Dont shake them
I usually just pirate books