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Arecentcol- umn on where to find free books for today's popu- lar digital read- ers brought a flood of responses, a few questions and a bit of a scolding. It seems I overlooked public libraries as potential sources of free e-book downloads. Given the popularity of the sub- ject, I thought it would be wise to revisit this very popular subject of free e- books. By way of review, e- books, which you down- load to read on any num- ber of digital readers outfitted with specific software — a computer, iPad, Android, iPhone or other smartphone — are all the rage. Remem- ber: You don't need a Kin- dle device, Nook reader or smartphone to download e-books created for those readers. The software is free to download to your computer. And if you know where to look, you can get an endless supply of e-books absolutely free, as well. Libraries. Check with our local library to see if they offer e-book check- outs. As long as you are a library card holder, you may be able to log in from home and download e- books for free. The way it works in most cases is that you check out or put e- books on reserve, as the number of copies available are limited. Project Guten- berg. Non-profit organization Proj- ect Gutenberg of- fers 36,000 pub- lic-domain titles for free. Amazon. Every month Amazon offers free down- loads of selected titles for Kindle. Simply type "free Kindle books" into the search bar to see the cur- rent offering of free Kin- dle books. Barnes and Noble. Barnes and Noble offers free books for its Nook reader. From it's home page, type "free Nook books" into the search bar and prepare to be amazed! OpenCulture. En- joy amazing free ac- cess to 150 classics in e- book format by authors such as Jane Austen, Ag- atha Christie and Charles Dickens at OpenCulture. com. Smashwords. This des- tination offers free e- books from independent authors and publishers. There are almost 200,000 titles in the catalog. To quickly get to the list of free e-books, simply use the combination of three top-filter bars. For in- stance, from those three menus, select: bestsellers — that are free — that are 50k words or longer. Archive.org. This is a non-profit digital library whose mission is "univer- sal access to all knowl- edge." The website is a huge library of text, audio and video file. It boasts 3.8 million e-books and texts. As you browse and you find a book of inter- est, look at the panel on the left to see a list of available formats. Most of the time, ePub (a friendly digital format) will be in- cluded. ManyBooks. This site offers about 30,000 free e- books. You'll find Many- Books.net to be well-orga- nized and easy to browse, and that books are avail- able in an impressive number of formats. On a personal note, I do not own a reading de- vice such as an iPad, Kin- dle or Nook. I have a lap- top computer on which I have downloaded the free Kindle reader software (free download at Ama- zon). I own a growing li- brary of nearly 300 Kin- dle books and read them from my computer screen. Wouldyouliketosend a tip to Mary? You can email her at mary@eve- rydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheap- skate, P.O. Box 2099, Cy- press, CA 90630. EVERYDAYCHEAPSKATE Howtogetallkindsoffreee-books COURTESYPHOTO MaryBest,boardmemberoftheRedBluffCommunityCenterAuxiliary,addsthe auxiliary's contribution of $500 to Food from the Heart food drive, headed by Jessie Woods, right. The donation is from the monthly bingo sponsored by the auxiliary at the community center. FOOD FROM THE HEART AUXILIARY DONATES By Jennifer Cooper Social Security manager in Redding Perhaps the most mis- understood Social Security program is disability in- surance, often referred to as SSDI. Some people mistakenly think that beneficiaries are "on the dole" and getting easy money for minor im- pairments. That's not the case. There are two ways to understand the truth about disability. One is by looking at the facts. The other is by get- ting to know some of the people who make up the many faces of disability. We have some of the strictest requirements in the world for disability ben- efits. The Social Security Act sets out a very strict defini- tion of disability. To receive a disability benefit, a person must have an impairment expected to last at least one year or result in death. The impairment must be so se- vere that it renders the per- son unable to perform any substantial work in the na- tional job market, not just their previous work. SSDI does not include temporary or partial dis- ability benefits. Because the eligibility requirements are so strict, Social Security disability beneficiaries are among the most severely impaired people in the country and tend to have high death rates. In addition, Social Secu- rity conducts a periodic re- view of people who receive disability benefits to ensure they remain eligible for dis- ability. Social Security also aggressively works to pre- vent, detect, and prosecute fraud. Social Security often in- vestigates suspicious dis- ability claims before mak- ing a decision to award benefits—proactively stop- ping fraud before it hap- pens. These steps help to en- sure that only those eligi- ble have access to disabil- ity benefits. Americans place a high premium on self-sufficiency, but it is reassuring to know that Social Security disabil- ity insurance is there for those who need it the most. As for the faces . . . there are so many people who benefit from our disability program. But for now, al- low us to introduce you to a few of them. 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