How I find books in English version online and make them mine
We see reading English version as something cool and amazing since it does enlarge our vocabulary, improve our writing skills and lead us to a better way of English thinking. But when you want to start this journey full of sense of achievement, you find that you don't know what to read, where to find the book you like, what kind of reader is available for the format you download, or how to make the further-reading-list based on what you have got. Therefore, you spend most of your time wondering, lingering without a practical plan in shape.
You are only four steps away from being a good reader with adequate reading resources well equipped. Develop your path to more English versions online. Fix your concentration on certain app and website and spare more time and energy on actual reading.
Broaden your path to find more books interesting to you
Go to the bookstore and library, see what's new on the shelf. Focus on the books in English version and the books in Chinese but written by foreign authors. Take photos of the covers so you can search the name and author for the book later.
Follow some of the WECHAT official accounts with latest info for books. One of the them I recommend strongly is shown below. If you are after book list in special topics interesting, this is exactly the thing catering for you.
Get an account in GOODREADS, a website similar to DOUBAN in China, presenting thousands of books in details. If you have no idea what to read, come here and check what's the hit for the moment. There is a selection for books popular in each year, every one with an account could vote the books he likes. There will be top 10 works in different categories, autobiography, mystery, fiction, nonfiction, etc, which are the favorite options acknowledged by public.
The original book special column in Jingdong shopping mall is another platform for you to come across something worth reading. You can search by key word, publishing house or theme if you don't clearly have a name in mind.
Discover more tools and websites available for e books downloading
BOOKZZ has a new website now, booksc.org. This website provides books in various areas for free since 2009. You may find it incredible when you realize that you can get almost 2/3 of the English versions you get to know via the four approaches mentioned above.
Gutenberg is another website for English versions downloading for free. Over 57000 e books are within your reach here.
E reading powered by Youdao is an app with novels available, more specifically, classic novels.
Kindle is another app for you to check what's popular as the pocket book for foreigners. Some of the classic novels are accessible free of charge.
Choose the reader effective for books in 3 main formats
The top 3 formats applied in high frequency are pdf, epub and mobi. So you need a reader applicable for them all.
If you have e books in your cellphone, be well prepared with iReader or any other app equipped originally in your mobile.
If you prefer reading in front of computer screen big enough. My suggestion is that you should be with Sumatra PDF or STDU.
Increase the possibility of finding more books relevant to the ones you enjoy
If you are reading a book, you may open up your way toward more books once you follow the 6 steps below.
Mind the book review, and you are lucky to have a name of a new book if it is from an author, too.
2 Find the other books published by the same press.
3 Read the other works of the same author.
4 Find the similar ones by trying the same key word of the current book you know.
5 Locate the other book by visiting the link provided by the book available now.
6 Find the other book via references and footnotes of the book at hand.
Are you ready to be a decent reader? Check if you know what you enjoy reading and be able to get it online for free. See if you are equipped with the reader for books in different formats and willing to expand the possibility of reading based on the resources at hand.
