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“You can’t judge a book by its cover”*…

The first lines of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

… Fair enough. But you can sometimes get a pretty good feel from the first several pages. And there’s a website available to help…

Read an endless stream of free book samples. Reveal and save the ones you like.

Judge a book by its writing: “Uncovered Ink.”

* Common idiom

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As we browse, we might send engrossing birthday greetings to a writer whose first pages are highly likely to compel you, David Mitchell; he was born on this date in 1969. A novelist, screenwriter, and translator, he has authored nine novels, two of which (number9dream and Cloud Atlas) were short-listed for the Booker Prize; one of which (The Bone Clocks) was long-listed for the Booker and won the World Fantasy Award. His 2016 work, From Me Flows What You Call Time, was the second contribution to the Future Library project (to be published in 2114).

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July 14, 2026 at 1:00 am

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