Best of the Best: Links to Ebook (& Doc reader) Threads

[*YellowRose*]

We've had a lot of terrific discussion about e-books and readers here at ClieSource . . . I thought a thread linking to some of the best might be helpful to newbies (and oldies). Nothing is in any particular order, and this list is NOT all-inclusive, so I encourage you to do a search on your own if you need more information.


Where to get fantasy/sci-fi e-books (18 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1207&highlight=EBooks) Reading E-books from MemStick (28 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1859&highlight=%2Abook%2A) Good e-book websites (5 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3855&highlight=%2Abook%2A) Where to get good e-books (9 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5803&highlight=%2Abook%2A) Legality of E-books (10 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5014&highlight=%2Abook%2A) E-book reader recommendations (8 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3887&highlight=%2Abook%2A) Determining what reader a .pdb is for (2 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5475&highlight=%2Abook%2A) Favorite e-books and doc readers (48 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9241&highlight=%2Abook%2A) Making your own e-books (8 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10679&highlight=%2Abook%2A) New e-book website (10 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13371&highlight=%2Abook%2A) Looking for an e-book reader? (27 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11544&highlight=%2Abook%2A) How to convert .txt to Palmdoc (6 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11725&highlight=%2Abook%2A) Best E-book reader (14 posts) (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=15091&highlight=%2Abook%2A)

If, as you read through these threads, you come across a book site you like, I encourage you to bookmark it. I've come across some great sites that were frustratingly hard to find after I'd left. Grrrrr.

Enjoy!

[*YellowRose*]

FREE EBOOK SITES
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Memoware. The Grandaddy of them all! (http://www.memoware.com/)

Arthur's Classic Novels (http://www.unityspot.com/arthurs/)

Blackmask Online (http://www.blackmask.com/page.php)

University of Virginia: E-text library (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html)

Online Books at University of Pennsylvania (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/)

The Plucker Book Repository (http://dave.pluckerbooks.com:81/)

PDABOOKS.org (http://www.pdabooks.org/)

Mary Jo's E-texts (http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html)

Project Gutenberg (http://textual.net/gutenberg/access/) (thanks to RD100!)




'For Purchase' EBOOK SITES
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Academic Materials: Ebooks at work in Education (http://www.academicmaterials.com/entrance.htm)

Baen (also offers some books free!) (http://www.baen.com/)

Palm Digital Media (http://www.peanutpress.com/home.cgi)

Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com/)

MobiPocket (http://www.mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp)

Handstory (http://www.handstory.com/ebook/index.html)

AlexLit (http://www.alexlit.com/start.taf?hallpass=7l4FYbPy) (Carries .pdb, .pdf & .html)

Don't worry, I've got more, and I'll be adding them as time permits. =)

[*YellowRose*]

ClieSource members have chosen! Read about it here (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15627)!

[*YellowRose*]

Trying to find a book?

Check out EbookLocator.com (http://ebooklocator.com/) to do a search of a number of sites.

COOL SITE!

[*YellowRose*]

New place to buy e-books: Ebook Mall (http://www.ebookmall.com/). Seems to have an interesting selection - everything from bibles to "Everything You Wanted To Know About Hangovers". :rolleyes: (Do a search for 'palm' and all the palm books will come up.)

[*YellowRose*]

I found a site with a lot of different links on it: Free E-books (http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm). AWESOME! :D

Also:

Raptorbooks (http://www.raptorbook.org/)

Franklin E-book publishers (http://franklin.com/ebooks/default.asp?nettrackerid=fptpebooks)

and

CyberRead (http://cyberread.com/)

[theophilus]

www.ccel.org (http://www.ccel.org) has a lot of their texts available in palm format for free download.

CCEL is all public domain classical christian literature/commentaries/bibles, etc.

[zipslack]

Don't forget to stop by and see what's in the Vagrant's Library...it changes constantly. It's also an online converter for creating doc files from files on the Internet. When you do a conversion, a copy is placed in the library for download. You never know what you're going to find there. It also gets cleaned out on a semi-regular basis.

http://www.poormojo.org/Doc/ - the Library

http://www.poormojo.org/dod.html - the Doc-on-Demand (DoD) engine

[yoopermjm]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by *YellowRose*

Arthur's Classic Novels (http://www.unityspot.com/arthurs/)


Okay YellowRose, I went to Arthur's Classic Novels and saw some great classics.  But they are in .xml format.  Is there a way to get them in PalmReader format, or even as word docs or text files?  I copied an xml file to my computer and wasn't able to do anything with it.

Thanks for any help you can give me, I'm really enjoying reading books on my clie, and have given avantgo the boot as a good book is a better use of my time.  Arthur has a lot of great books, if I can only get them on the clie!

[*YellowRose*]

Originally posted by yoopermjm
[QUOTE]Originally posted by *YellowRose* But they are in .xml format.  Is there a way to get them in PalmReader format, or even as word docs or text files?  I copied an xml file to my computer and wasn't able to do anything with it.You can 'scoop' the books with iSilo or Plucker. Anything that can do HTML.

[yoopermjm]

Thank you.

[BillsClie]

YellowRose, I have DeepReader, but see more and more about Palm Reader. I must admit, I do prefer "paper" books, but when reading ebooks have used DeepReader. Yet, it doesn't seem all that popular. In your opinion, what does Palm Reader offer which puts it above the others.

Also, do you know of a (freeware?) program which converts files (either .txt or Word .doc) to DOC for reading on these readers? It would allow me to "archive" some of the information I use in DocstoGo onto an ebook reader.
Thanks.

[mrklaw]

MakeDoc is a command-line application that can convert text files into DOC files. You can download it at http://www.geocities.com/ebookepoc/utilities.html

[lordgeejay]

I've always used QED/QEX2 (http://qland.de) to convert my plain text files to Palm DOC files. Although it is not exactly freeware, there does not seem to be any limitations on it besides its constant reminder that you should register it.

[RD100]

It is another link to the free ebooks on Project Gutenberg, but this one has the books already converted into the following formats:

Palm, HTML, PDF, Rocket eBook, iSilo, Doc, Plucker and zTXT 

http://mc.clintock.com/gutenberg/

 

[RD100]

This may be the best link to free eBook sites I found to date ....

http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

[sanjayschrapel]

/me takes a looksee at that OZZY ebook site

/me is impressed

/me is happy this is an OZZY site

thats really good, some stuff we have to study for school is in here, for free. Not that i would rely on an e-book for my english studies, but its nice to have a copy if i ever leave my paper one at school or home.

/me bookmarks this site, and thread :D

[RD100]

*bump*

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[krypticide]

Great thread! Just what I was looking for...