Sony ebook

[dextrous]

Have been given one for my birthday last week. Great invention and lovely to use, but the only problem I see is that you have to pay full whack for downloaded books. Would have thought there's be huge discounts since am no longer asking for paper usage. Also, Amazon have yet to cotton on fully to ebook downloads, which is a pity.

Suppose time will help build the market and lead to cheaper prices.

 

[holmslaw]

1000's and 1000's of ebooks on thepiratebay. There is also a free internet library, but the name escapes me at the moment.

 

[Blasphemous]

It's the 'Gutenberg Project' holmslaw...

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Their catalog page is: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

It contains thousands of 'out of copyright' books dextrous. Quite a few classics in there. Worth a look if you've never seen it before.

 

[mattylad]

There are loads of ebooks available elsewhere too.

What genre of books might you want?

 

[dextrous]

There are loads of ebooks available elsewhere too.

What genre of books might you want?

To be honest, not given it a great deal of thought, but novels are along my current train of thought. Such as Ian Rankin's Exit Music.

 

[tim west]

Do they do Playboy in ebook format?

 

[mattylad]

lots here too.

 

[dextrous]

Anyone found a wras ebook during their perusal through any of these or other sites? Sort of thing I think I should get, but have survived without it up to now.

 

[holmslaw]

Just found these links for even more books.

"The On-Line Books Page at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Bibliomania at http://www.bibliomania.com/

Books on the English Server at http://eserver.org/books/

The Windows CE Archives of (as they call them) E-Text sites at http://www.pda-archives.com/wince/12.htm

An even better list of sites at http://gort.ucsd.edu/jj/1/book.html

The wonderful Internet Classics Archive at http://classics.mit.edu/

Another very good listing of public domain etexts at http://utenti.tripod.it/libridigitali/publicdomain.htm

A still even better list at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Etext.html

And another at http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/ where you’ll find many good links, including "The Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel" where you can ponder their manifesto; which ends with the ringing declaration "That David Foster Wallace's distinction between recursive and referential writing is decidedly valuable, and our belief is that the post-dialogic reflects an essential blend of the two."

And so on. So many sites, so many books, so little time."

 

[dextrous]

Thanks holmslaw. Plenty for me to be getting on with then.

 

[ColJack]

audiobooks and a cheap mp3 player do the same job...

 

[dextrous]

audiobooks and a cheap mp3 player do the same job...

True to a point. Trouble is that I tend to find my mind wandering when listening to audiobooks far more than when I'm reading.

 

[megawatt]

Me too sometimes ... Depends on the type of book and who's doing the reading.

MW

 

[holmslaw]

Do they do Playboy in ebook format?

Yes they do go here http://thepiratebay.org/search/playboy/0/7/600

 

[tim west]

Do they do Playboy in ebook format?

Yes they do go here http://thepiratebay.org/search/playboy/0/7/600[/QUOTE]Good man!