{"id":11410,"date":"2011-06-12T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11410"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T19:56:50","slug":"building-a-catholic-ebook-library-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/06\/building-a-catholic-ebook-library-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Catholic eBook Library on the Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Vogt previously posted a list Fr. John McCloskey&#8217;s &#8216;Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan.  Now he has updated it to link to ebook versions on Amazonin his post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinveil.net\/2011\/06\/building-catholic-ebook-library-on.html\">Building a Catholic eBook Library on the Cheap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Lifetime reading plan is a pretty decent list with some notable exceptions, but you can never come up with a perfect list of this type.  I&#8217;ve read the majority of the books listed and so can concur.  Brandon Vogt also lists some other sources for free ebooks related to the faith.<\/p>\n<p>Though a notable one he left out is Project Gutenberg which has a wealth of Catholic material considering that most classics our out of copyright.  Project Gutenberg also has the books in multiple ebook and just plain text\/html formats all of which our free.  Many of the books Brandon has listed as not being free on the Amazon Kindle store are actually free at Project Gutenberg.<\/p>\n<p>For those with Nooks, Barnes &#038; Nobles does have very similar prices on the books listed for the Kindle.  In fact it seems to me there is a lot of price fixing going on in the ebook world.<\/p>\n<p>To his list of ebook resources I would also add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquinasandmore.com\/\">Aquinas &#038; More<\/a> which does offer ebooks for downloads.  There is also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/culture\/library\/most\/\">The MOST Theological Collection<\/a> which has the complete works of Fr. William G. Most available online &#8211; though not in ready ebook format.<\/p>\n<p>A related area is Catholic Audiobooks.  Since many of these classics are on Project Gutenberg this means that sites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;ved=0CCYQFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Flibrivox.org%2F&#038;ei=uxj1Tcq9GY7VgAegpcjTCw&#038;usg=AFQjCNEJQxhlBjbKSrSvrXAv2xtKUNGGfQ\">LibriVox<\/a> have made available audiobook versions of these titles done by volunteers.  There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/marialectrix.wordpress.com\/\">Maria Lectrix<\/a> &#8220;public domain audiobook podcast \u2013 for people with catholic tastes&#8221; which has many spiritual classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Vogt previously posted a list Fr. John McCloskey&#8217;s &#8216;Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan. Now he has updated it to link to ebook versions on Amazonin his post Building a Catholic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11411,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410\/revisions\/11411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}