Catholic Books – The Treasure Trove
Since I have written about how cheap it is to build a Catholic library on Amazon, I have received comments with a couple of interesting points:
- If you cancel your Amazon account, this is all gone (it seems obvious to me, but it bears repeating). The one who wants to stop giving business to Amazon should, in my eyes, not cancel the account. Similarly, pay attention before cancelling your email address: you’ll never remember how many things you can only access through it.
- There are alternative ways to get an impressive number of Catholic books on the cheap, or for free. Most impressive was the comment sent to me by reader Grassrootgonzo, with a link to the Traditional Catholic website.
If you follow the link, you will find, at the top of the page, two English Books tabs. They have what seem to me (have not counted) hundreds of free Traditional Catholic books. Many of these books are available in different formats. Another tab looks like a very extensive collection of Lives of the Saints.
A quality .pdf portable reader should make it possible to read these books on the go, with or without signal, and to read them for hours without it being fatiguing to the eyes (I rely on Kindle for this).
My suggestion for those who choose this way is to visit the site and upload a vast quantity of those books, both on their hard drive and in the cloud space. This will avoid that the sudden death of the hard drive (an always possible event, unless you have a very expensive solid state drive; I think it might happen with that, either!) means the loss of information that took hours to gather and might take a long time to gather again if sites like the one above are shut down.
Still, it seems to me that the point I was making in the original post still stands and is even reinforced: the amount of sound, traditional Catholic material available for free, or almost for free, is staggering.
Happy reading!
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Posted on December 4, 2021, in Traditional Catholicism. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
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WOW! A treasure indeed! Thank you, Mundy! This is God’s justice in a world gone spiritually insane:+) God bless~
A dear priest friend (may he RIP) once told me that if we want to avoid doing business with evil companies, we will have to stop doing business all together. He said there are always evil people who own, or work for, many companies, including grocery stores, gas stations, and everyday shops. We can’t escape them. I refuse to shop at Starbucks but if someone surprises me with a coffee from there, I will not insult the giver by refusing it. I would like to avoid items made in China. (This one is hard.) I have decreased my Amazon shopping this season and purchased from smaller stores. I don’t know if there are better alternatives.
I believe you’re right about the books. I already had one or two Ligouri books on my Kndle and ordered another this morning. Thank you for the reminder!
Mr Mundabor, a clarification. You are absolutely correct about the Providential availability of Traditional Catholic resources online even as the Internet is being mobilized against all of humanity. He who seeks will find Christ. The ability to search and find other Traditionally minded Catholics is a huge comfort, as well, to those of us without access to a local TLM parish. I do suffer from an over-fondness for books, and am prejudiced in that regard, but I would not ever have found true Catholicism without the internet, and reading great Catholic writers there. I certainly received very little guidance or support for my conversion from the diocese, or RCIA. This perplexed me at the time, but now I understand completely, primarily due to the Internet.
Mundy, As our ears get old, we need help. My wife had me look up the words which went to the angelic voices. 😉 https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/John-Rutter/What-Sweeter-Music .
Thanks.