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I'm super excited to announce this, our brand new website which (in faucet style) will pay you in bitcoin to read books (http://www.paidbooks.com)!!

http://www.paidbooks.com (http://www.paidbooks.com)

Essentially bitcoin faucets pay you to do nothing, but if you don't have an interest in bitcoin then you probably arent going to find them.

I hope this can reach a wider audience, and actually introduce bitcoin to a whole new type of person

However, please be aware, for now, this is in beta testing mode so it is only simple, there are only a few books to read, and the satoshi payout is kinda low.

How it Works

The whole site is unlocked so you can browse it and use it without needing to signup

But if you want to get paid, then you need to signup and enter a wallet address.

Simply browse to choose a book (http://paidbooks.com/books)! and pick your book.

Then scroll down and start your timer (it's faucet style remember)

Then every 1 minute you can click to claim 20 satoshi (*yes I know this is low, it's testing remember) and turn the page.

Or if you are a fast reader then you can just turn the page for free.

You can also refer your friends / advertise and receive 25% referral commission, and you can even create a specific referral link to a specific book - so you could say "get paid to read ___book name__ here".

.. that's it.

Future Improvements

There will be some updates coming, but just keen to get this out there and tested and to get some feedback. But, I don't need feedback on the 20 satoshi payout. I know it's low.. I think we can improve it, but actually I don't want this to be a "high paying faucet".. I want it to stand alone as a site that will pay you to read books, and get different types of traffic.. really reach new people, not just the bitcoin faucet crowd...

Here are some other features we also already have in mind:

• 100s, even 1000s more books! (this is a priority)
• An authors bios page, with all of their books listed if there are multiple from the same author.
• A popular books widget/listing
• A new books widget/listing
• Add your book features - so that authors can upload their books (and then even link to them and take 25% of the claim amount of everyone who reads it)
• Suggest books / vote for which books to add next.
• Possibly adjusting the timer - 5 minute claims and higher amount might be better, but just keen to have 1 minute claims while testing..

But yes, other ideas, thoughts, features, BUGS, I'd definitely appreciate your feedback!

http://www.paidbooks.com (http://www.paidbooks.com)

Hey just allowing to read those books , are those open source books?

Otherwise it might be copyright problems no?

Yes lol, copywrite free books / out of date books - dont worry :) In the future, if it is popular we would love to contact authors and get permission to upload their material :)

Ok, kind of realised we probably should have had at least one book about bitcoin on there.. so now we do... have you ever actually read the bitcoin white paper? Well, now you can get paid to read the bitcoin white paper (http://paidbooks.com/book/bitcoin-white-paper-satoshi-nakamoto) :)

10 satoshis per page/min and 1 capcha.

Price very very very....very cheap.

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I think this is a brilliant idea as it encourages more readers to read more books. I think the payout is a bit low but it's better than nothing because you get paid for reading. Do you have to fill in a captcha every time? That would be tiresome because after you read a page you have to type.

Yes, completely agree - this is a low paying site. It's not meant to be a high paying bitcoin faucet, but reaching outside of the bitcoin niche - but hopefully showing regular people how bitcoin works and the world how bitcoin could be used. If you want high paying faucets then our other 2 - Alien Faucet, and Weekend Bitcoin) in my signature are the highest paying in the world.. I don't need ANOTHER highest paying faucet - need a bigger project that could reach mainstream traffic.


Yeah, thats the idea - reach wider audience and encourage reading - my 2 favorite things in the world - bitcoin and reading.. ok, maybe surfing too but don't know how to incorporate that :P

Yes you have to fill out a captcha.. this has to be so or even at low payout it would be worthwhile to mass fraud/bot attack me.

BUT - yes, this is just still testing. Yes, the rewards can be increased, and/or the timer can be just set back to 5 minutes and reward increased... I agree this probably makes sense.. just want to test at 1 minute for a while..

Target

- 100 books by the end of the month
- 1000 books by the end of next month
* and if you would like to get involved and enter the data - upload books.. then PM me, it is a paying role for the right (fast/quality) people.. low paying.. but I can pay in bitcoin... contact me if you are interested and quote me your hourly rate in $s or bitcoin.

I have nothing bad to say about this, seriously. I read a couple of books on the list. Most are what I would normally like anyway since I enjoy classics and ESPECIALLY love Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sure the payout is low but I am happy to be testing it and getting a small reward for something I'd probably be doing anyway.

I hope to see an increased selection of books if this takes off. Definitely one of the better webpages with incentives. Having a section for fledgling authors to upload their work and possibly get it seen is a great idea too.

10/10 bitcoinaliens. I will report back if I have any issues.

Thanks for the feedback - and this ^ is exactly what we're going for - if you like reading, and want to read the books we have then just get paid to do so :) Get paid to do stuff you're already doing anyway :)


Yes, coming too :D The plan is to get 100+ books online and then reach out to some authors

Only it is taking us a bit longer than we thought to get the books online - we are looking for PAID data entry help to do this - PM me if you are interested.

PM'd you about data entry and am glad to do anything to support this project. Surely not everyone will "get it" when it comes to this, others will likely just leave a page open for a few satoshi. After I read the Bitcoin whitepaper and saw a balance in my top screen it made sense to me how this platform could be used for many things. I am sure the surface is just beginning to be scratched.

A very interesting service indeed. Just tried it out, works like a charm.

Only comment I have is that the captchas are quite repetitive as to what you need to enter, but other than that, looking good :)

1/10th of a penny per hour, while entering 60 captchas?  

After 1,000 hours of reading (and 60,000 captchas), you will have $1.  I think you will need to spend more than that just to keep breathing...

Good concept, but not anywhere near reality yet.

Well I agree it does have kinks and low payout it seems like something that might actually have a purpose. God knows we have enough crappy faucets and idiotic ponzi games out there. In time we can hope payout increases if there is higher interest.

We're still only really in beta testing, only have around 3 real length books online and 10 short stories. The payout will definitely increase with a "real launch.. when we have more books and a few other tweaks:

- Most popular widget.
- New this week widget.
- Author Bios page.
- A few other bug tweaks.

However, the intention is not to make this a "high paying faucet" - there's plenty of those - but a vision so far for the site is that we can pay $1 per book read (on average) - so you read a whole book, and it adds up to around $1 - so instead of paying $7 to buy a book, if we have it, then you can read it on our site and get paid $1 - a difference of $8 in your pocket (sorta).

Anyway, I hope we can increase the payout in another 5-7 days time - and hopefully we will have 10-20 real length books online by then.

what format pdf or adobe reader?

Nice concept of Giving people the chance to read and earn at the same time.
But there are lots of banners inside it. Not environment friendly. Only few sentences in a single page. Users have to visit every page which may can irritate its concentration.

And i don't think so Serious readers will be there if changes not been done

You should give a captcha every couple of pages and not after each one. That would be too tiresome. Maybe instead of a captcha, the question could be say a part of the book and it asks the reader question that relates to the book so they can't just abuse it. Also you could go to epubbud.com, they have free PDF files for you to read and you could definitely use that.

you should add the bookmark function of each book, the reader may not always remember the number of pages they have read

I guess such features will be soon implemented as this is just a Beta version

I always leave my page open or note the url, but I agree a bookmark function would be a nice addition. You inspired me to code up an add-on for greasemonkey xD.

http://digitalmoneytimes.com/crypto-news/paidbooks-pays-you-in-bitcoin-to-read-books/

Just doing my part to bring more attention to the project ;)

Nice article jdebunt. I used to enjoy reading your reddit submissions but don't see you around as much anymore.

Wowsers! Thanks a lot JP! In turn we've re-posted this to our facebook page :)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daniel-DAlien/890709270949728

This week we came out of Beta. We still have a long way to go, but we have..

Doubled the payout - to 20 satoshi on every claim. This is currently every 1 minute. And yes, I know it's still low - but again, the point isn't to be a high paying faucet, it is to be a book reading website with a bitcoin element. It's likely we will increase the timer - so you only claim every 5 minutes (but larger amount) in the future though.

We also now have 20+ books online - a real mini library now of some really classic, world famous and popular books - Here's a few:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (http://paidbooks.com/book/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-mary-shelley)
The War of The Worlds (http://paidbooks.com/book/the-war-of-the-worlds-h-g-wells)
Little Women by Lousisa May Alcott (http://paidbooks.com/book/little-women-louisa-may-alcott)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (http://paidbooks.com/book/anna-karenina-leo-tolstoy)
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (http://paidbooks.com/book/think-and-grow-rich-napoleon-hill) * A personal development / business classic.

And of course, The Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto (http://paidbooks.com/book/bitcoin-white-paper-satoshi-nakamoto).

Theres much more to come on PaidBooks including:

- Most popular widgets
- Full Author Bios
- A service to add YOUR books, or books of new aspiring authors - and hopefully established authors too in the future
- And of course 100s more books over the next couple of months!

Again - not trying to be the highest paying faucet in the world here, trying to spread bitcoin outside of this little faucet niche, and also just provide a service and a cool use of bitcoin :)

And of course,

20 satoshi per page with once min time + captcha is not good....
i readed one page 2 days ago then leaved  :(

Good, this is exactly what I want, now dont get me wrong, theres nothing wrong with grinding out some free bitcoin from top paying sites, but this isnt that.

There's plenty of those.

If we have a book you want to read, then don't pay $5 for it. Read it with us, and GET PAID to do so - you're then up $5+ :) It's also just a way to introduce bitcoin to a wider audience.

i am  also problem with captcha that is not loading properly on side every time click on it that stuck on loading so make it fix there.

For some reason the captcha does not appear and I get wrong captcha error when clicking continue.


BTW, Still have all John Carters from when I was a kid. Love those. Movie was such a let down. :)

I agree with others that the payout is painful. You'd be better off paying 0 than to pay almost nothing, I think.

That said, you should try to team up with other businesses to get funding, and make a win-win situation. I can already think of multiple pages of who I'd team up with for this.

This is good site for reading a book(especially for killing time in boring mode). Although the payment rate is low, maybe use a few worth ads on the site and then rise the rate it will attract more people to visit not the site.

I have found my ip blocker has been blocking some of the servers and that is why the captcha was not working. Can you post a IP list so I can whitelist them all.

Also waiting 10 minutes to turn a page is far to long. Maybe set the payout on the time not on the pages? I read pretty damn quick.

I read books and turn pages after 10 minutes but I never get a bigger balance  ;D

Twenty satoshis cannot even appear on the blockchain.  So, this is like an account you keep until you have enough for a transaction fee.  Then maybe you can send a tiny dust amount that you cannot even use because it is too small for a transaction fee.

Try paying in Bitcoin test as this is a testing phase of the website.  Ask users to give the test bitcoins back (as they are for testing anyway).  After reading about 600 pages and a user should be able to get thousands of spendable satoshis. 

Consider a lottery system where instead of paying the user 20 satoshis, the user gets a one in five million chance of earning one bitcoin.  This is the same mathematical expectation of paying 20 satoshis.

Try this out with test bitcoins first.  Post your test bitcoin address here, and PM me, I'll send you some.  I should get rid of them because I have lost my enthusiasm building this software I was working on.

sdp

Hello Ann!,
This is a really exciting turn of events and I can't wait! A quick question - where do I click to earn satoshi, and how do I know how much I 've earned? I've been waiting for something like this but a little more explanation is needed to make it a success.
Also, since you are in Bitcoin Aliens, can you please help me?I 've been trying for weeks to get paid from Daily Doge, Incentive Wall and Alien Faucet (the one where you kill aliens).
The email confirmation click doesn't seem to work and nobody answers my messages. I think it's a technical problem of some kind but I can't get any help from anybody. My email is vkelly91@gmail.com and by BTC wallet address, where I want the bitcoins to go, is
1KKYfSgeASSGSp5TQPXNy5VAHvibSft7Rj. Please be an angel and help me to solve this problem. I know it has nothing to do with the questions on this forum, but I am really desperate.
And I really do want to get into Paid Books as well.I hope to hear from you ASAP.
Thank you very much,
Valhalla (Victoria Kelly)

You could try cutting and pasting the confirmation link if clicking it doesn't work. But I wouldn't be too hopefull as the Bitcoin Alien group of faucets is widely reported as being a scam. They used to be good until early 2016 then they stopped paying.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=853374.580 Start reading around page 28.

Also, I'm not sure if listing your real name, email address, usernames, BTC addresses etc all in one post on a public forum is a good idea. There are a lot of shady characters here that might want to play around with it.

Good luck with your payment!

I read past page 28. All recent pages (not from 2016) show that it IS paying. So I'd trust current posts over those from 8+ months ago any day.

I think you should make an android app for the googleplay store so people who use their tablets as a book can read and earn some bitcoins st the same time. I k ow the website you can use but it would be nicer if you had a highly optimized version especially made for tablets.