How can I find a book online without buying a Kindle?
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You don’t have to buy the kindle. You can to go any local library (call ahead to make sure they hold it for you to pick up), or you can buy the paperback version at the local bookstore or online.
It’s under copyright (and by Scholastic) so it’s not going to be available online,unless your local library has a downloadable copy you can “borrow” with your library card. Otherwise check out a hard copy from the library.
Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org.
However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts, distributes, or transmits the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright. When the law was changed, it became copyright duration matched the rest of the work, i.e. the author’s/copyright owner’s lifetime plus 50 years.)
Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
If the work is valuable enough to read, it must be paid for.
Websites that claim to provide professionally published/copyrighted books for free have done so without permission or payment to the copyright holders, and have been reported to the authorities and are under investigation.
(Just FYI)