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Scribd is Giving Away 1 Month of Unlimited Access For Free (goodereader.com) 30

Posted by msmash from the good-guys dept.
Reading subscription service Scribd is offering free access to its library of over one million ebooks, audiobooks, magazines and more for the next 30 days (no commitment or credit card information required). From a report: Scribd told Good e-Reader that "with the spread of COVID-19 and new regulations put into effect, we know many people are staying close to home, yet still looking for information, distractions and perhaps a mental escape. Scribd wants to support the community by giving people access to the world's largest library during this global health crisis, and do our small part in helping consumers through times of uncertainty."
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  • As someone that likes to read and usually either buys from Amazon or gets my books from the library. I am always looking for another source to get something to read from. I know that I have been looking for new release's from a couple different authors I read. Does anyone know if this site has new release's? Or should I just continue going to Amazon.

    • As someone that likes to read and usually either buys from Amazon or gets my books from the library. I am always looking for another source to get something to read from. I know that I have been looking for new release's from a couple different authors I read. Does anyone know if this site has new release's? Or should I just continue going to Amazon.

      Go to scribd.com click on hamburger menu top left corner then use search function. You're welcome.

  • ...when you're jailed up... Thanks! :)

  • They require a connection to a payment method. (Score:4, Informative)

    by vyvepe ( 809573 ) on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:50PM (#59849624)
    It is either a credit/debit card, or g-pay, or paypal. Claiming that no credit card information is required is misleading.

    • Re:They require a connection to a payment method. (Score:4)

      by bagofbeans ( 567926 ) on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:58PM (#59849672)

      Exactly.

      Unlimited* books, audiobooks, document downloads, and more.
      By starting a free trial, you are enrolling in automatic payments of $8.99/month (plus tax where applicable) beginning at the end of your free trial. You can cancel anytime from your Account Settings.

      You cancel, but meanwhile yet another business has your payment method stored ready for breach.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by vyvepe ( 809573 )
        Not only that. If you forget to cancel then they automatically charge you. They expect that many people forget to cancel and will be charged at least once. I would join it if they would ask me to cancel the service or provide the credit card info before the end of the free month.

      • Re:They require a connection to a payment method. (Score:5, Informative)

        by aitikin ( 909209 ) on Thursday March 19, 2020 @02:12PM (#59849770)
        No, if you follow the links appropriately, you get free access without any credit card.

        https://www.scribd.com/readfree?utm_source=readfree

        Free. Literally just signed up with my junk gmail account.

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by vyvepe ( 809573 )
          You are right. But notice that the link in the summary does not contain utm_source=readfree argument! Whoever wants to try it without providing a payment method needs to use a better link than the one in the summary.

          • Re: (Score:3)

            by taustin ( 171655 )

            I used the one in the summary. It didn't ask for any kind of payment information.

            • Re: (Score:3)

              by vyvepe ( 809573 )
              It may be region/browser/OS dependent. The one in the summary required payment information from me. The one with utm_source=readfree did not require it.

        • No, if you follow the links appropriately, you get free access without any credit card.

          https://www.scribd.com/readfre... [scribd.com]

          Free. Literally just signed up with my junk gmail account.

          Thanks! Signed up. I love audiobooks.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

        You cancel, but meanwhile yet another business has your payment method stored ready for breach.

        Which is why you use Paypal because you can always break the automatic payment link at Paypal's side. So the business ends up with a useless token that is rejected if they try to charge your Paypal account.

        I've used it many times - if they don't make it easy to cancel, you just cancel it from Paypal's side. The only downside is your account gets littered with a bunch of recurring payment accounts that say "Cancell

  • I live in a small town (by California standards) with a very mediocre public library. Scribd has been a godsend. The audio books have revived my commute, and the book selection has kept me entertained and helped me professionally. The collection of technical titles is superb. If you're in R&D, you will benefit tremendously from Scribd. You can get a good texbook on any subject instantly.

    Even if you are a member of a big city's library system, Scribd is still worthwhile because you don't have to wait

    • All I ever recall scribd doing is mirroring random pdf files in a javascript viewer.

    • My library has two apps, one to download and read magazines with, the other does the same for books. They got lot's of stuff.
      Then there's the great Gutenberg.org, Librivox.org, Creativecommons.org, Archive.org, Wikibooks... There's lots of top quality sites just giving it all away. May not get today's top of the charts, but as they say, "It's all there in the classics."
      • Sounds like you live in a big city. Does your library offer a good selection technical books spanning more or less everything? Scribd offers titles even on topics as obscure as friction stir welding.

        • Sounds like you live in a big city. Does your library offer a good selection technical books spanning more or less everything? Scribd offers titles even on topics as obscure as friction stir welding.

          If Scribd does what you want it to, that's cool.
          My library's offerings are mixed. Technical books - not so much. However, they've got something called "Interlibrary Loan". Lots of libraries do. My cousin checked out an extremely rare book from somewhere in Australia through his university's Interlibrary loan program. Call your library and ask if they participate, how it works, etc. You might get lucky.
          BTW, I'm guessing that COVID-19 has put a lid on Interlibrary loans for now.
          https://en.wikipedia. [wikipedia.org]

  • "Try it for free! Unless you make it through our byzantine cancellation process, we'll charge you $9 a month for the rest of your life."

    Anyway, it's not a terrible thing that they're giviing temporary free access, but I would never pay $9 a month for that service, and I'd be willing to bet it won't be easy to cancel.

  • You mean that horrible abortion... (Score:3)

    by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:37PM (#59850440)

    ...that captures PDFs in a really really shitty UI in a website, instead of just letting you open it in your PDF reader, and wants to squeeze you into paying money for continially getting that privilege.

    I hope their dicks fall off. [youtu.be]

    • Holy crap. Thank you for the link. I've never seen that before. It is so funny because I feel like I am living that life right now.

  • Their whole model is:

    >People upload cool PDFs for free.

    >They lock them inside DRM bullshit and then charge people a monthly fee to to access these free shared resources.

    >News articles link to these PDFs as "sources" but readers have to pay a fee to see the sources.

    I also hope their dicks - and tits - fall off.

  • Given that most of their content is pirated and none of their charge goes to the creators.

    Fuck them. Fuck them with a pneumatic drill.

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