{"id":204,"date":"2014-10-10T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/?p=204"},"modified":"2014-10-10T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:51:07","slug":"free-canonical-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/2014\/10\/10\/free-canonical-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Free canonical texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books are really expensive and you might feel a little aggrieved when you&#8217;re asked only to concentrate on an extract, especially when you have bought it. \u00a0Many of the historical texts are available online for free <code><!--more--> <\/code>in the form of etexts. \u00a0One should, of course, be very careful about both accuracy and also copyright.<\/p>\n<p>Some good places to begin your search are:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ebooks.adelaide.edu.au\/index.html\">http:\/\/ebooks.adelaide.edu.au\/index.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/infomotions.com\/alex2\/\">http:\/\/infomotions.com\/alex2\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlymoderntexts.com\/\">http:\/\/www.earlymoderntexts.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, just try typing \u2018free etext\u2019 plus title of the work and author into a search engine and see what happens. You may also want to try certain ebook suppliers who I do not want to advertise, companies that rhyme with Damazon and Poogle Play. They also offer free versions of books. I have also shared a wish list on Amazon of some of the texts available for free:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/registry\/wishlist\/39QXP5XJJJY4W\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/registry\/wishlist\/39QXP5XJJJY4W<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0For example, stage 1 should really all get a copy of <a title=\"Free etext click here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Theaetetus-ebook\/dp\/B0082SSDHO\/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&amp;colid=39QXP5XJJJY4W&amp;coliid=I3SOGWJISUF4GA\" target=\"_blank\">Plato&#8217;s Theaetetus<\/a>\u00a0which has a very good introduction.<\/div>\n<p> Bear in mind, you do not have to own a kindle &#8212; phones, laptops and other devices can use the kindle app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books are really expensive and you might feel a little aggrieved when you&#8217;re asked only to concentrate on an extract, especially when you have bought it. \u00a0Many of the historical texts are available online for free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-resources","category-stage-1","category-stage-2","category-stage-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}