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Sounds like a good way to check out authors you might like.

Also, if you haven't already, check what's available online from your local library as digital lending collections grow.

If you enjoy audio books your library can be a great resource for those as well. Ours is a relatively small library and I was surprised at the number of audio books available for download.

There are a lot of books out there and not enough time to read all of them, which is sort of depressing. I am reminded of that old Twilight Zone episode where the one guy survives the nuclear war and stumbles upon a library (despite fact that rest of city is rubble). He is ecstatic that he now has the rest of his life to read but then his glasses fall off and break so now he will not be able to read a thing.

Well even if I live to be 100 years old and read three books a day, I will only get to a very small fraction of the books that are now out there. This is a different situation from just several hundred years ago when it was possible for learned people to read pretty much everything that was in existence.

Supposedly there were a great quantity of books lost during the decline of the Roman civilization. I wonder if any of them were any good. We do have some clay pots that used to contain olive oil and wine.

I don’t understand the business model here. If EBookFling allows only 1 purchaser to buy every book and all the rest to simply lend it out, there ain’t gonna be any decent Ebooks to read.

This thing seems like it’s ripe for a copyright lawsuit. I’m not sure of all of the legal implications involved here, but the most basic concern to me seems to have been brought on one of the above posts: If you deprive the author/publisher of any continued profits, pretty soon you won’t have much to read.