Free eBooks – Who reads real books these days?
Posted in Entertainment, Tech by Derek at 11:04 pm
This post was published 4 years 19 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Is it just me, or has the adoption of eBooks been a little slow? Chime in with your thoughts.
If you’re interested, it looks like Microsoft Reader has amassed a nice collection of free downloadable eBooks. 1516 individual eBooks to be exact. Titles include the Encarta Pocket Dictionary (Alright!!!! Rock on!), The Time Machine, Moby Dick, and A Tale of Two Cities.
There might be something of interest for you so check it out. [via]
As if it wasn’t hard enough to read a book on a pc instead of lying on the couch with a paperback – they make it even worse by using a scheme that makes it so that the books are only good on your one pc! Woe to anyone who wants to use it at antother location or who buys a new pc or if their program just thinks that you have a new computer. And I am not going to bother learning anything about ‘managing my licenses’ and all that crap – I am just boycotting all media that has any kind of digital rights managment attached to it. What a headache. And look at the prices of the books – you should get it them for about a buck considering these limitations.
Also note that while the selections that come from that link are free, if you use the search to find titles it will linclude results that are not free.
Correct, the majority of titles offered on the Reader site are not free. Most of the free titles are being offered by the University of Virginia library.
Hola everyone! I’ve heard of ebooks, but I was wondering, sis there some way I can put them on my ipod? or do I have to just sit at my laptop all day :( Thanks in advance
i think that theres a way to export a .txt file in adobe reader and then you could put it on your ipod. if they scaned the pages or something like that then you could always use something like paperless printer and make a sequence of images if its a photo ipod.
http://www.tomsci.com/book2pod/
I don’t know if there’s an equivalent software for Windows, if you happen to be using that instead.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
You can download The Time Machine, Moby Dick, and A Tale of Two Cities there, as well. Of course, there’s thousands upon thousands of other books on there, too, but yeah.
And, you know, there’s always Usenet…