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5 free things for books lovers

Posted on 21/07/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

As a book lover, we take refuge in the pages of a book. Some even say those who read books travel “many places.”

And so, providing reading resources to all readers has been our pleasure. BooksAvenue believes that reading can be available to everyone with little, or no cost at all. Thus today, we have compiled a list of links and ways to help you save more or even get books or e-books for FREE.

1. How To Buy Kindle Books For Those Living Outside Us

This is useful for readers who are not living in US.

Many of the reading perks are given for FREE by signing up via the link inside.

However, it is only available for those no living in US.

Check it out how to bypass this geographical restriction.

2. Kindle E-readers Under $100

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Don’t have a Kindle reader? Check out our promotional links to Amazon. There are good and decent kindle readers which are less than $100.

Not just the price tag, BooksAvenue has reviewed each and every Kindle Reader for your convenience. In this way getting the right reader with the right budget,

Something for everyone without breaking our bank!

3. 3 Steps To Read Amazon Books For Free

Now with the link to buy books outside of US, and the convenient link to compare all Kindle Readers, this link helps to find out other good books that are given away for free. Check out the link inside ways to source for FREE books.

4. How To Get Free Shipping From Amazon

Say there is FREE shipping, will you be happy with it? And with the free books, surely this will be better with FREE shipping? It took BooksAvenue years to compile this. Check it out too.

5. 5 Sites To Buy Books (Not Amazon)

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If Amazon is the only way to buy books, then you are missing out a LOT! There are other cheaper alternatives too! This is the link to find out what you have been missing out!

Click on the point 5 above to go to the page to find out what are OTHER sites to buy books from!

So there you go, all the 5 points summarized here for your convenience. Do bookmark this page for future reference. BooksAvenue will update this from time to time. This ensures information to be accurate and updated. And more importantly, ensuring that all readers get their resources at low cost, or no cost at all.

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Grammarly’s Ai-powered Writing Assistant

Posted on 30/06/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

Everyone writes and types these days. However with so much content and so little time, how is it to do spelling and grammar checks efficiently?

Enter the Best Plagiarism Checker & Proofreader.

Regardless if you are a writer, or a casual user, Grammarly helps to track and correct your English errors. Grammar, spelling errors or even mistypes, it will capture all and change it properly for you.

Add it to your browser. Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer and it works automatically. Furthermore, you may add it in your phone well. The possibilities are limitless!

Added mine to Chrome and you can change the language anytime.

Personally, we find this very useful in composing content and publish it online. With Grammarly, we can create content efficiently with no mistakes.

The best part?

It is FREE and you can sign up here!

Kindle E-readers Under $100

Posted on 01/05/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

Knowing the fact that the earliest Kindle device of 4gig can hold up 30,000 books [¹], why will anyone still lug a physical book around? If it is a short trip commuting from one point to another, a book does provide a quick mental getaway, covering and finishing more pages and finishing the book earlier too.

What if wanting to have the option to have all the titles in one device weighing under 200 grams? And it costs less than $100.

Will you want it?

If your answer is yes, this page will be useful for you to pick the right Kindle to suit your lifestyle.

Kindle for $64.99

This basic Kindle model uses a 6inches if electronic ink capacitive touchscreen for reading, and it lights up so you can read in the dark. A single charge lasts up to 4 weeks, based on a half-hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 13.

The only downsides are it’s not water-proof, no light-adjusting sensors or rotating page orientation, and it still uses a MicroUSB charging port.

Kindle Paperwhite for $94.99

The Kindle Paperwhite will be considered a slight upgrade from Kindle.

The touchscreen is noticeably clearer (300 vs. 167)pixels/inch. With better lights, flush-front design and more importantly, waterproof of IPX8 certified.

All-new Kindle Oasis

The All-new Kindle Oasis will be the full upgrade from the earliest 2 devices.

Not only it has the largest screen size of 7inches, the best-LED front lights, but it also has an ergonomic design, auto-rotating page orientation and page turn buttons.

This is the best option for the best reading experience. We are sorry that it is not under $100 as promised. However, the price matches the quality. And in our view, a good reading device makes it easier to flip the pages faster. (We love the page-turning buttons!)

Kindle Kids Edition for $84.99

The Kindle Kids Edition will be exactly similar to regular Kindle in terms of specifications. With the $20 price difference, there is a 2 year guaranteed replacement and a one-year subscription to FreeTime Unlimited. As it meant for purely reading, there are no games, ads, or voice assistants to interrupt.

Now with the 2 years guaranteed replacement, all parents will be willing to let kids from 7 years old and up to handle this version of Kindle.

Hope this sums all the popular Kindle readers on Amazon. There are other reading devices, however, these are the ones which focuses and specialises for reading purposes. Hope this is a simple and concise guide to narrow down the choices.

( Team BooksAvenue works hard to garner resources and detail all the money-saving ways that are available online. The affiliated links help to ensure BooksAvenue remains free for your consumption. We thank you for your kind support. )

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[¹]Research data taken from https://decoline-shipping.com/qa/how-many-books-can-fit-on-a-4gb-kindle.html

FREE Kindle Books on World Book Day

Posted on 20/04/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

Do you know what day is it on 23 April every year?

It is World Book Day.

And for that Amazon celebrate it by offering free ebooks. These ebooks are ranging from award-winning fiction to under-the-radar memoirs and true crime. Year 2020 might see a few more of us reading right now due to COVID-19, so satisfying our travel bug by reading about far-off locales is a great way to pretend we can leave our homes.

As promised, BooksAvenue helps to source and get all the deals to ensure reading is free, if not at a very low cost for you. Head to Amazon’s Read the World page to download these free ebooks now through April 24th, and keep reading to see what books are available!

So how to do it?

STEP 1: Get this FREE VPN here

STEP 2: Sign up Amazon Kindle Unlimited here

STEP 3: Head to Amazon’s Read the World page

Optional: Buy Kindle reader at promotional price.

May this COVID-19 pass soon. It is a terrible disease which has the ability to spread without visible symptoms from the infected patients.

And remember please stay safe and stay at home! All shall pass and tomorrow will be better.

Stay Safe During Covid19

Posted on 13/04/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

It has been really a while since we post something or anything to update everyone. And in this period, a lot things changed without much notice. Humans relationship change, things evolved and global events shift drastically. Everything is changing, everything is still changing.

At this point of writing, Covid19 has reached an infection toll of 1.5m. This is not the final number. And surely this number continues to grow. Only question is if the rate of increment will be increasing than the day before.

No doubt it first started in Wuhan, China. Thus because of that it was labelled as Wuhan Virus. Pretty much just like how everyone calls the various crisis that happened before; Ebola Virus, or bird flu. The correct term should be Covid-19.

Looking at the rate of infection, it will surpass each high unless everyone cooperates. It has become an issue of, ME vs WE. A simple instruction of staying at home cannot be executed correctly, with many errants staying NOT at home. The individualistic mindset of YOLO (You Only Live Once) brings danger closer to everyone, thinking that if one is to be infected, it is ultimately an individual issue.

Yet it is not. The virus is spreading rampantly, it just needs one more person to be infected so that that one more person can contribute to the contamination efforts of the virus. Just one more is all Covid19 takes to continue.

Why cannot everyone be at home and stay at home? Whenever there is someone not at home, that someone out there continues to contribute and increase community spread of Covid 19. It does not matter if the infection has or had taken place because no one knows, there are no symptoms and no signs. When the symptoms come, it will be too late already. All the people who are in contact previously will be in much higher probability of infection immediately.

So why YOLO, why take the chance? Why choose to be stupid like licking toilet seats and then getting infected after? Why take the risk and step outdoors? I cannot fathom why.

This is NOT a post of affiliated links, or Free sign ups or freebies. Surely you guys should be aware of all the freebies BooksAvenue have been providing by now if you have always been catching up with us BooksAvenue.

This is a post of disappointment and disgruntlement of poor choices by fellow citizens and friends who, in this difficult times, make life even harder for everyone.

I am just going to say it again. We need everyone to get their act together. Count beans or screw bottlecaps for all that matter. BUT STAY AT HOME.

Period.

How to get FREE Shipping From Amazon

Posted on 10/03/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

BooksAvenue did an article on how to buy Kindle books if you are not in the US. The article can be found here: How to buy Kindle Books for those living outside US

On the same note, BooksAvenue received many enquires on how to buy books or Amazon items and ship to Indonesia. So in this article, we will use Indonesia as an example. It works for any country in fact.

Since BooksAvenue has the knowledge and experience, the team has compiled all the information and steps in this page. Knowing that buying ebooks, movies, apps and games from Amazon store is difficult in some countries, we make it a point to help our customers so that they can have the digital experience purchase ( be it ebooks, or multimedia resources) via Amazon is as painless as possible.

Does Amazon.com Ship Internationally To Indonesia?

It depends on the item.

But in this short article, we’ll show you exactly how to buy any product from Amazon.com’s USA store and get it shipped to Indonesia, regardless of whether Amazon ships it internationally or not.

Continue reading How to get FREE Shipping From Amazon

How to buy Kindle Books for those living outside US

Posted on 01/03/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

Previously, we discussed how to have UNLIMITED FREE reads on Kindle in Singapore, Malaysia and other Asian countries. In this post, we are going to talk about how to buy Kindle books in Singapore as well as buy Kindle books in Malaysia, both countries use the same method, but let’s just refer to Singapore.

In addition, this tutorial will be showing you on how to buy English Kindle book from US Amazon.

Continue reading How to buy Kindle Books for those living outside US

How To Get $10 Amazon Credit

Posted on 01/02/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

As always, the staffs at BooksAvenue help to document and search for ideas and ways to have books at an affordable price for everyone. In this way, reading can be affordable to everyone! Thank to Amazon!

In this post, we will share with you how to get a $10 credit. This credit can help to offset your Kindle ebooks purchase. It is savings and with the $10 saved, it translates to buying another title or two, reading more fulfilling desires.

Step 1: Register an Amazon Kindle Unlimited account.

Step 2: Get a Kindle E-reader. I assumed you would have purchased the Kindle either from Amazon or through one of the e-commerce portal. If not, use our link for a discounted price.

Once the Amazon Kindle Unlimited account is signed up and ready, there will be a free month trial. It is a 1 month trial period available before paying. In this way, it is an excellent idea to surf and browse for every title available on Amazon.

After that trial period is over, Amazon will email you a S$10 credit email to fund your account. It should be about 2 to 4 weeks time after the Amazon Kindle Unlimited is ready.

Click on the link in the email sent by Amazon and there will be a banner that looks like this:

Hope this is useful to all readers out there.

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Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Posted on 16/01/202012/12/2021 by BooksAvenue

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Originally published: 19th Feb 2019

Authors: Ken Liu

Page count: 480

Publisher: Tor Books

Subjects: Science-Fiction

Language: English, Translated from Chinese

ISBN-10: 1250297664
ISBN-13: 978-1250297662
Product Dimensions: Kindle eBook / Audiobook

100 Word Summary

A series of short sci-fi stories translated into English from Chinese. Ken Liu presents (and translates) an anthology of sixteen short stories by fourteen Chinese science fiction writers, as well as three essays on the history and rise of Chinese science fiction. Personally, I find the stories to be concise and complete. It brings about the emotions as readers empathize the characters, the twist and turn in the stories. It is the unexpected twists as well as out of the norm developments that make these stories enjoyable, a short ride out of the world experience.

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Stories include:
“Goodnight, Melancholy” by Xia Jia
“The Snow of Jinyang” by Zhang Ran
“Broken Stars” by Tang Fei
“Submarines” by Han Song
“Salinger and the Koreans” by Han Song
“Under a Dangling Sky” by Cheng Jingbo
“What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear” by Baoshu
“The New Year Train” by Hao Jingfang
“The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales” by Fei Dao
“Moonlight” by Liu Cixin
“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Laba Porridge” by Anna Wu
“The First Emperor’s Games” by Ma Boyong
“Reflection” by Gu Shi
“The Brain Box” by Regina Kanyu Wang
“Coming of the Light” by Chen Qiufan
“A History of Future Illnesses” by Chen Qiufan

Essays:
“A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and Fandom,” by Regina Kanyu Wang,
“A New Continent for China Scholars: Chinese Science Fiction Studies” by Mingwei Song
“Science Fiction: Embarrassing No More” by Fei Dao

Who should read:

If you are interested in Chinese culture, Chinese habits and perspectives, these short stories help to see things in a different light. Though it is different from Western perspectives and preference, it is refreshing to read and get to know the other major culture on the other side of the world.

Who should NOT read:

On the contrary, if you are unfamiliar with any of the Chinese culture, this book will be extremely puzzling and confusing for you. A lot of hidden context and meanings that are not explained explicitly in the book. And if you were to google separately on the meanings and significance, you will lose the ‘reading momentum’ and may not enjoy this title as much.

Takeaway points:

Not many Chinese of sci-fi genres, then again, it could be of personal reading preference. It is promising and refreshing to read something that is not English.

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