Free Books for the Financially challenged?

[Damon Rambo]

For those of us who are poor (yes, I am very poor!), I was wondering if anyone knows of ministries that offer free books/reading materials (print, not digital). For instance, Grace to You (J.Mac) offers free books on a regular basis to anyone that is on their mailing list (currently the offer is J.Macs new book "Slave" if you are interested).

So, what other free resources are available? I for one, am most interested in the Puritan/Reformed writers. Anything?

 

[Wannabee]

Mount Zion's Chapel Library offers free materials to anyone who asks.

Also, Desiring God is very generous in helping when someone cannot afford to purchase books.

 

[Wayne]

l'll second that mention of the Chapel Library.

And even if you don't like digital (not many do like reading off the screen), you can always print out selected works for less than the cost of buying new.
So very much now available, not just on the many Puritan fan sites, but also on Google Books and Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine.

 

[travstar]

Years ago, Gary North put up a free site full of books in .pdf format that he'd published, and has never taken it down. Once on the page, look to the left-hand side bar, click "Author" (or however you want to sort the books), and voila. FreeBooks from the Institute for Christian Economics

 

[FenderPriest]

If you run a blog, you can get in with publishers to get review copies of their books for free. That's how I now get a substantial amount of books that I read.

 

[MLCOPE2]

Cool! I love free stuff that is useful!

 

[LeeD]

ReformedBookshelf.com is a great resource for this!

 

[Christopher88]

Thanks for the threadl; I am glad to have stumbled upon this.

Lee,
Does reformed book shelf order books to loan out? IE I need a copy of the Prodigal God by Keller and can't afford to go out and purchase it. So if your site does go out and purchase books for loan, maybe you can put this on your list.

 

[Damon Rambo]

ReformedBookshelf.com is a great resource for this!

Thanks! That is a GREEAT ministry!

 

[Dwimble]

Is there a large library in your area? Over the years we've checked out a ton of books here from the Fort Worth library. We can check out a LOT of books and keep them for quite awhile, and we can renew the checkout multiple times online before having to go in and manually check them in and back out. If you haven't tried that already I'd give it a whirl. Assuming there is a large library, you might be surprised at the selection they have.

 

[LeeD]

Chris,

We certainly do take requests and try to meet them as often as we can. I will put that book on our list and encourage you to check back in often to see if it is available.

Blessings,

Lee

Thanks for the threadl; I am glad to have stumbled upon this.

Lee,
Does reformed book shelf order books to loan out? IE I need a copy of the Prodigal God by Keller and can't afford to go out and purchase it. So if your site does go out and purchase books for loan, maybe you can put this on your list.

---------- Post added at 02:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:17 PM ----------

Just ordered Prodigal God and it should appear in the library later this week.

 

[Christopher88]

Lee, your awesome;
Can I email you my name and address and have it sent to me when it arrives?
My home fellowship group is now just starting this study, I can't wait to get into it.

 

[LeeD]

Just fill out the request form on the home page - Freely you recieved, freely give. | Reformed Bookshelf

We will mail it out your way when it comes in.