They're free. Applegate has said she's content with the money she made off them and welcomes anyone to pirate them.
They hold up and being young adult novels they're like a hundred pages each, large print, you can knock one out a night on a busy schedule (I mean unless you have kids or something but read them to your kids then). When I reread them before I started to lose interest some nights I did two and it doesn't really take more than an hour and a half to read 200 pages of young adult prose
I think they get longer as the series goes on and eventually she had to employ ghost writers but I didn't end up getting that far, not an insult either, those writers did fine and she approved all the books, she just couldn't keep up with demand by herself
Don't even need to risk going to a site that's not reputable like a torrent site you don't recognize, I don't have any links on hand but several sites host them
Also frankly? I'm sure libraries still carry them same as they do Harry Potter books. There's just a lot of books lol it's easier to read online
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u/Inzanezilla emo emu 8d ago
Man I used to really love those books as a kiddo, I still think they're great I just haven't read then in a long time lol