(First thread) Ebook Sites . . .

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! _Baen Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library/). AWESOME! =)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE!~ Plucker books (http://dave.pluckerbooks.com:81/) is a terrific site if you use the free, open source PLUCKER!

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! ~ UVA E-book library! (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! ~ BlackMask (http://www.blackmask.com/page.php)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! ~ Memoware (http://www.memoware.com/mw.cgi?screen=main)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! ~ UNC - Chapel Hill (http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/texts.html)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! ~ UPenn (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/)

[*YellowRose*]

$$ ~ Academic Materials - Ebooks in Education (http://www.academicmaterials.com/entrance.htm)

[*YellowRose*]

$$ ~ Palm Digital Media (http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/S=979dba40adcea0554a821516039bf478P4k3mcCoACMAAC05CuI8352439/home.cgi/sr1)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! ~ Arthur's Classic Novels (http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/)

[*YellowRose*]

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

[*YellowRose*]

$$ ~ PDA BookStore (http://www.pdabookstore.com/) Interestingly, has a few MP3 audio books!

[*YellowRose*]

~~~~~~~~DIGITAL BOOK INDEX~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE!~Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/index.html)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! ~ Bibliomania (http://www.bibliomania.com/main.html)

[*YellowRose*]

FREE! ~ UT ~ Electronic Books (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/etext.html)

[zefod]

wow lota ebooks site great...thanks.

[zefod]

gonna look at them tonight.

[ptc]

What is the best source for FREE PalmReader format ebooks??

[TheUltimate]

good call

[*YellowRose*]

Originally posted by ptc
What is the best source for FREE PalmReader format ebooks?? Well, if you use DocInOut or some other converter, you can make a Palm Doc out of any text file. :)

[ryber]

Free - PDABooks (http://www.pdabooks.org)

[RNclie]

Originally posted by --YR--
Well, if you use DocInOut or some other converter, you can make a Palm Doc out of any text file. :)

Know where to get DocInOut???

[caroln]

Thanks for all the helpful links here!

Re: Know where to get DocInOut???

Perhaps you have already checked out the thread here, "Guttenberg Text - Palm Reader". If not, you will find a link there for getting DocInOut at PDA Street. There is also a link provided by 'bryus' to some potentially useful tips on using this app. - something I haven't been successful at yet. Intend to try out his suggestions asap.

I do love being able to carry a library around with me. Good luck to you.

[caroln]

RE: 'Free - PDABooks'


I've been trying to download books from this site and have only managed to get empty zipped folders. Have not had a problem elsewhere so am wondering if anyone else has been more successful. If so, any suggestions what I might not be doing right?

[Edlin]

I use makedocw to convert my texts to palmdoc. http://www.cognitiveroot.com/makedoc.htm (its a windows program). Nice & simple.

Caroln... I just tried one from that site (http://www.pdabooks.org/index.php?t=detail&id=1811&cat=69) and downloaded okay with a file inside. Maybe turn off any downloaders you`re running, or anti-popup stuff and try again.

PS
Thanks lots for the site links :D

[Edlin]

http://www.bartleby.com/ (good for use with Plucker/Isilo)
+ a few more in reader/pdf/aportis format http://www.bartleby.com/ebook/

[Edlin]

HTML format Free: http://www.tcfb.com/freetechbooks/index.html

[Edlin]

HTML Format Free Jokebooks: http://www.freejokebooks.com No Longer active

Try memoware search for jokes instead :D http://www.memoware.com/?start=0&screen=search_results&p=title^!joke~!description^!joke~!author^!joke~!

[Edlin]

Freebies from home pages (fan fiction, short stories etc) http://www.shipofdreams.net/ebooks/dribsndrabs.html

[Edlin]

Free, The Classics http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation

[Edlin]

Mostly free, html, Alchemical texts http://www.levity.com/alchemy/texts.html

[Edlin]

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

EDIT: This site has some great books, mainly 'childrens' liek 20 or so wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson, & Jack Snow. Also lots of Tom Swift series, Edith Nesbit, fan fiction, and as they say more.
The only downside I`ve foudn at the site, is some of teh books are in .prc format (shudder).

[Edlin]

Free, Mainly poerty, ezine and amateur: http://www.etext.org

[caroln]

Thanks for the additional link sites, Edlin and for your suggestion re PDABooks.org.
I turned off my anti popup and don't believe I have any 'downloaders'. I was able to download the book on the link you provided but apart from that have still been unable to download anything else except empty folders (have tried about 6 books by different authors). If there are any other suggestions to try, I'd be grateful.

[Edlin]

Okay... I might of been lucky and picked the working link at random from the book site. Could you copy n paste a link that doesnt work for you and I`ll try it. (or give me a book tittle to try).

Then I might be better able to suss whats going wrong...

[caroln]

Here's one (Trollop's Phineas Redux):

http://www.pdabooks.org/index.php?t=detail&id=2165&cat=528

It's very kind of you to be so helpful.

[caroln]

Here are 2 more, in case it helps to clarify anything. They all turned up empty. :(

http://www.pdabooks.org/index.php?t=detail&id=2121&cat=466

http://www.pdabooks.org/index.php?t=detail&id=2118&cat=474

Thanks, Carol

[Edlin]

Hiya Caroln,
I tried the links you gave me and what do ya know, they worked. :| Could download, extract & read....

The puzzler to me is why the other link I gave you worked though... so just to test something, try this link: http://beta.pdabooks.org/books/S/Scott,_Walter/Scott,_Walter_-_Ivanhoe.zip & see if its another empty for you.

What operating system is on your computer (eg mac, win98, winxp etc). And what do you use to unzip folders (eg stuff it, winzip, Windows compressed folders etc).

I think it could be something to do with what you use to extract the files, with whats going wrong. Espically if the filesize matches what it should be. There are plenty of different (& free) programs to unzip, so it will be pretty easy to test if thats whats wrong.

*smiles* & no probs re being helpful :)

[caroln]

Hi Edlin,

This is a mystery; using your link I downloaded the Ivanhoe zipped folder but, again it was empty. I then tried using the Extract Wizard but it also found the folder empty.

I have WinXP (Home Edition) which is able to open zipped folders using its Compressed Folders utility. I can successfully download zipped folders (from, e.g. Memoware, Handango, Palmgear), unzip with a double click on the zipped folder icon, and extract files using drag and drop.

The odd thing about this is that, when I'm downloading these apparently empty folders, the download box looks normal; it causes the usual delay and shows the progress bar etc.

When I first had this problem, I thought it might be because I hadn't registered and logged in at PDABooks. So, I did but it hasn't made a difference.

Hope you can stay on the case, Sherlock. And thanks again.

[Edlin]

Okay, I reckon we need to try a different unzip program. As a suggestion, try using IZarc: http://alien8.lunarpages.com/izarc/IZArc34.exe
Hopefully that will open the zip files okay. Its a free program so its only going to cost time to try it. Its what I use, and it works well enough, and more importantly it reads the pdabooks.org files fine.

I`m not a big fan of the built in compression/decompression with windows, though its does the job 98% of the time. It doesnt sound like your doing anything wrong, and if IZarc works, we probally should let PDAbooks know about this bug with Windows compressed folders. (not really thier fault either, but ya know...)

[caroln]

SUCCESS!! It worked a treat. "Elementary" it may be to you; for me, it was great detective work.

Sounded like a good idea to let PDABooks know about this so I sent an email to an address I found that I hope is correct (steele@pdabooks.org). Should know soon if it got there. Again, many thanks.

[Edlin]

:D :D WooHoo :D :D
Glad we got there Caroln!
(brushes dust off hands)
I`ll email pdabooks.org too :)

[caroln]

Forget the dust - just pat yourself on the back, Super Sleuth :cool:!
Glad you're also emailing them, though I haven't had mine sent back so it's possible it got there.
Can't tell you how pleased I am with the result :) -- it was also great fun playing Dr Watson. I'm amazed at the helpful spitit here. Thanks again! :D

[gfunkmagic]

Wow! Great links everybody! Thanks!

[Edlin]

The Online Books Page
-----------------------------

<http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/>

Free. Text & Html & some other formats. Has Guntenberg & many non Gutenberg texts. Over 20,000 books. Many different subject areas.

Current highlights include
Banned Books (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html) (did you know little red riding hood has been be banned by some schools).
Women Writers (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/)
Prize Winners (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/prize.html) (Newbery award for outstanding children's books by Americans, Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prizes)

[Edlin]

EServer
<http://eserver.org/>

Mixture of formats, mostly text and html.

Variety of collections (including arts, literature, cyber culture, cultural theory, Renaissance studies, collection of plays, modern works and classics, novels and short fiction, classics and new works, works in film, television and other media studies, Philosophy, reference works, and more).

[Edlin]

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
<http://www.infomotions.com/alex/>
Free. Mostly Gutenberg texts.
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy

[Edlin]

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
<http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html>
Free. Html Format.

[Edlin]

Hyperizons Hypertext Fiction
<http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html>
Free. Mostly HTML.
What I'm onto here is writing and researching and thinking about hypertext fiction. For those of you familiar with it already, enough said--you may want to go back to the Contents. For those of you unfamiliar with it, hypertext fiction (aka hyperfiction, interactive fiction, nonlinear fiction) is a new art form that while not necessarily made possible by the computer was certainly made feasible by it. Its creators make use of hypertext--of which the Web is only one widespread albeit limited incarnation--to create fiction with many features uncharacteristic of print fiction: multiple paths through the same text; multiple endings (and beginnings); questions posed to the reader which, once answered, influence what the reader will read; audiovisual attachments; navigable maps; and so on and so on. Readers seeking more extensive definitions of hypertext fiction are invited to browse through the Theory and Criticism section or, better yet, simply start reading a few works--artists always outstrip their would-be definers.

[Edlin]

The Online Medieval and Classical Library
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/>
Free. HTML.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

[Edlin]

Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
<http://www.ccel.org/>
HTML, XML, RTF, TXT, PDF, Audio & probally kitchensink formats.
Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves! All of the books on this server are believed to be in the public domain in the United States unless otherwise specified.

[Edlin]

Twilight Times
<http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com>
Mostly $$$ but do check <http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com/freebies.html> for frequent offers (bi-monthly I think). Seems to have free books from a few different publishers.
PDF, HTML, & PalmDoc formats. Other formats on special order.

You might like to know the story behind the story of Twilight Times Books. I'm a publisher who is a lover of literature and storytelling. When I first discovered the internet, I was amazed at the number of highly talented and yet unpublished writers I kept meeting.

In June 1998, I started Twilight Times ezine to showcase great writing. For the past five years, TT ezine has placed in the top twenty ezines on the internet for both fiction and poetry in the Preditors and Editors™ Readers Poll, a reader's annual survey of the best on the web.

Twilight Times Books was established January 1999 as an epublisher. In 2004, we will evolve from an Internet epublisher to a small press print publisher. TT Books is currently expanding into paperback books and will be seeking new distributors for both ebooks and print books in the coming months.

At Twilight Times Books our mission is to promote excellence in writing and great literature. We're dedicated to enhancing the prospects of getting great speculative fiction books and New Age novels into the hands of readers.

Come back often.

Lida E. Quillen
Publisher

[Edlin]

Abintra Press (an authors homepage)
<http://abintrapress.tripod.com>
Mostly $$$, with freebies at <http://abintrapress.tripod.com/freebies.htm>
Science fiction, short stories & poetry.

[Edlin]

Rob Hopcott`s collection of short stories
<http://hopcott.com/>
Mostly free, mostly html format.

[PatrickS]

The GNU licensed AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com) is a word processor which understands Microsoft Word docs and can do a "Save As" any document to Palm Doc format (.pdb file).

[Edlin]

A site from my own home town:)
eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online
<http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au>
Free. HMTL Format.

The purpose of this site is: to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation; to promote reading of the same; and for the editor to have fun. There are many sites offering classic works in one form or another. Putting them into a format which readers might actually enjoy using is a challenge which I enjoy. If others benefit from it, so much the better.

The Electronic Text Collection began around 1998. I was aware of other e-text projects and had compiled a web page directory of these sites. Dissatisfied with the presentation on those sites, I wanted to explore how one might present a book using HTML in such a way that it was as readable and enjoyable as a printed book. Having proved the concept, I then began adding titles and refining the format (and refinement continues to this day). The first title publicly promoted was Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, done in order to tie in with an ABC TV adaptation which was showing at the time.

More recently I have pursued the creation of web editions with renewed vigor, and we now have over 450 titles in the collection. Selection of titles is loosely based on what are described as “the Great Books”.

Some sites (actually, most) present their works in ways which I, personally, find annoying: they use coloured backgrounds, the pages are festooned with images, sidebars and other extraneous material, they use ugly fonts, too small fonts, etc. And they rarely make use of additional coding to make the texts more readable. Some sites don’t use HTML at all, and expect you to read PDF. That’s OK for printing, but I find PDF too blurry for extended reading on screen.

Many sites either present the whole work as a single file (making it too large for comfort), or they split the work into many small pieces, making it tedious to get the whole work. This matters if you are on a slow-ish modem connection.

The principle features of works in this collection are:

- works are presented as HTML files, thereby making them accessible to anyone with a web browser;
- works are formatted for ease of reading on screen, using style sheets — lines are justified, with extra spacing between lines (this doesn’t work on all browsers);
- if selected from our Author pages, works will open in a separate window which has been sized to an optimal width for reading (just like a book);
- the reader is not constrained: you may choose the font and type-size most comfortable for you;
- the works are unencumbered by advertising or other extraneous material;
- each work may be easily downloaded in its entirety for reading off-line (requires WinZIP or similar).

In addition, additional effort is put into the following to further enhance appearance and usability:

- plain text (ASCII) quotes are converted to “curly” quotes;
- only numeric entities are used, for maximum browser compatibility;
- quotations and verse are identified (usually by indentation);
footnotes are generally placed adjacent to the text referring to them, within a box (in supporting browsers).

[Edlin]

Originally posted by PatrickS
The GNU licensed AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com) is a word processor which understands Microsoft Word docs and can do a "Save As" any document to Palm Doc format (.pdb file).
Kewl. Hopefully make conversion of messy texts an easier process. Goes off to download. Be even nicer if it opened palmdoc files too?

Edit: It does open the palmdoc files too :)
FYI you have to download the plugins to open/save as pdb.
It does an okay jobb on the conversions, still messes up the line breaks with gutenberg texts ): but nice to to be able to do the whole job in one progam instead of using MS word then Makedoc.

[Edlin]

DL Hoffman Public Library <http://www.dlhoffman.com/publiclibrary/index-main.html>
Free. HTML Format.
Welcome to the Public Library at dlhoffman.com, an online collection of useful, entertaining, and informative hypertext documents. Here you will find resource material, fiction, poetry, and other literary works. You can browse through the library by choosing one of the sections listed below or you can search for specific keywords by using the search form
Mainly techy & reference books (unless you read stuff like Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Cryptography for pleasure). Has some very good books/links.

[gfunkmagic]

Originally posted by PatrickS
The GNU licensed AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com) is a word processor which understands Microsoft Word docs and can do a "Save As" any document to Palm Doc format (.pdb file).

Okay I downloaded Abiword, but i don't see a "save as" option for .pdb file?! Am I missing something here? :confused:

Thanks...

[Nate]

Any way I could find a site with books on physics?

[Edlin]

Originally posted by gfunkmagic
Okay I downloaded Abiword, but i don't see a "save as" option for .pdb file?! Am I missing something here? :confused:

Thanks...
Hiya,
yep, your missing the import/export plug ins available at the Abiword Download Page (http://www.abisource.com/download/).
Direct Download for Windows based Machines (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/AbiWord_IE_Plugins.exe?download)

[Edlin]

Originally posted by Nate
Any way I could find a site with books on physics?
You could find one with Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=physics+ebooks). Theres a couple at <http://www.dlhoffman.com/publiclibrary/index-science.html#Physics> but post any good ones you do find :)

[gfunkmagic]

Originally posted by Edlin
Hiya,
yep, your missing the import/export plug ins available at the Abiword Download Page (http://www.abisource.com/download/).
Direct Download for Windows based Machines (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/AbiWord_IE_Plugins.exe?download)

Thank YOU!:) :)

[Edlin]

A site list of many ebook freebie sites at <http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm>. Has a well structured list with good descriptions. Thanks to RD100 @ cliesource for finding it:)

[Edlin]

PDAref: <http://pdaref.homeip.net/ebooks.htm>
Books are in Franklin Reader and Mobipocket Reader format, with some in .lit format (uggghh). Mostly from Gutenberg.
Has a few big books (all the Sherlock Holmes books and stories combined into a single ebook, first 8 Tarzan stories combined into a single ebook, and the first 25 Tom Swift adventures combined into a single ebook). Also has reference books (scrabble dictionaries, Websters 1913 dictionary), Bibles, and similar.

[Edlin]

The Million Book Project <http://www.archive.org/texts/collection.php?collection=millionbooks>

Pioneered by Jaime Carbonell, Raj Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of Carnegie Mellon University, the goal of The Million Book Project is to digitize a million books by 2005. The task will be accomplished by scanning the books and indexing their full text with OCR technology. The undertaking will create a free-to-read, searchable digital library the approximate size of the combined libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, and one much bigger than the holdings of any high school library. The pilot Thousand Book Project has already been successfully completed and can be accessed here.

Note: Not all the books are in english.

[Edlin]

SF & Fantasy Books Online (http://www.hourwolf.com/sfbooks/)

For the most part, these are links to full text, completely free science fiction and fantasy stories to be found on the Internet. As always, I am using the broadest possible definition of fantasy & sf, so there need be no debate whether something strictly belongs. I have included fairy tales, myth, and horror, but have omitted what most would consider to be religious text.

In several cases, these are Gopher servers, but your Web browser should handle them just fine. Quite a few novels are illustrated, or make good use of the hypertext aspects of the Web. The bullet points are color-coded to indicate their type. Let your mouse hover over a bullet point to read what type of site it is, or else place your mouse over the legend link above for a pop-up explanation.

[Edlin]

Small free sci-fi ebook site <http://duncanlong.com/e-books.html> all books by Duncan Long. In PDF, HTML, RTF, PRC and Rocket reader formats)

[dwig]

www.planetmagazine.com

Free generic eBook versions of the award winning SciFi eZine "Planet Magazine"; all 40 issues are now available as eBooks in addition to online HTML.

[zwergnase]

Since I find it quite impossible to download any large # of eBooks from these sites (navigate in, down, back up up the web site tree over and over and over again), I'm yet waiting for a good archive accessible either via FTP or available on CD. Let me know what that comes along !

[Edlin]

project gutenberg has ftp site access for free (ftp.ibiblio.org)& cds for lost cost.
Web downloadable & bit torrentable iso`s are avalable at http://www.gutenberg.net/cdproject/

see http://www.gutenberg.net/faq/ for more infomation.

[Edlin]

another gutenberg ftp site is ftp.archive.org

[JulianL]

http://www.manybooks.net

Automatically generates fairly nicely formatted copies of Guttenberg texts in Doc, iSilo, iSiloX, Plucker, PalmReader and a few others I forgot. It's really quite clever, you go to a book and there's a drop-down box where you select the format you want. If that book in that format has already been requested then you just download the cached copy. If it is a new request then the web site runs the Guttenberg text through the necessary convertion and formatting tools to generate the format you requested.

I use PalmReader and, although the formatting isn't flashy, it is at least not "broken", i.e. no line breaks in the middle of paragraphs. It also generates a chapter index. I haven't tried other formats.

The owner of the web site also seems responsive. I emailed him some comments and he made a point of getting back to me with a quick reply before going on holiday.

- Julian

[Edlin]

DANTE AND OTHERS ONLINE ARCHIVE
http://www.tonykline.free-online.co.uk/index.html

This site is part of the A.S.Kline network which includes Dante and Others, Ovid and Others, and the free online literature archive Poetry In Translation.

All texts featured on this site are fully downloadable in market leading eBook and conventional formats. For an explanation of eBooks and formats please visit eBooks Explained, then return.

Downloads are hosted on the free online literature archive Poetry In Translation where you can also browse the full archive.

Site publisher is currently also working on a hyperlinked translation of Homer's Odyssey, so far I'm up to Book XI of XXIV.

My Note: Some times, part of the site`s network times outs and no page to display, so be prepared for a bit of hit & miss.

[Edlin]

Fan Fiction. Mostly Anime styled. Free HTML.
I've read hundreds of fanfics and been frustrated trying to find my way back through the maze of the Web to reread the ones I really like. And that means I've wasted lots of time reading real clunkers, because there was no easy way to find the good ones. So I decided to gather here the ones that I like best (with the permission of the authors).
http://www.samizdat.com/fanfics/

[Edlin]

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Links to HTML based.... pluckable/Isiloable. YMMV.
http://exlibris.colgate.edu/gateway/encyclopedias.htm
Catergories:

General Encyclopedias
19th Century Encyclopedias
African American Studies
Art
Business
Ecology
Geography
History
Horticulture
Law
Literature
Music
Mythology
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religion
Social Science
Sports
telecommunications
Television

[Edlin]

Up until now, Project Gutenberg has focused on the creation of the
eBooks rather than their distribution and we have spent as much of
our time on copyright as on eBook creation and distribution. This
is our first attempt focused on distribution rather than creation

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November 4, 2004


Today, on the one-third of a century anniversary date of
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The mission of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers:
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As you may know, different countries had copyright laws
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We hope to be making similar announcements next year to
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PGCC's current eBook and eDocument Collections holdings:

Alex-Wire Tap Collection 2,036 HTML eBook Files
Black Mask Collection 12,000 HTML eBook Files
DjVu Collection 272 PDF and DJVU eBook Files
eBooks@Adelaide Collection 27,709 eBook Files
Himalayan Academy 3,400 HTML eBook Files
Literal Systems Collection 68 Mp3 eBook Files
Logos Group Collection 34,000 TXT eBook Files
Poet's Corner Poetry Collection 6,700 Poems
Project Gutenberg Collection 14,300 Files
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Swami Center Collection 78 HTML eBook Files
Tony Kline Collection 223 HTML eBook Files
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Enjoy!

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[Edlin]

InterText; http://www.intertext.com/index.html
100`s of storiesw, mostly fantasy/sci-fi. HTML format
InterText is a free online fiction magazine. It published material ranging from mainstream stories to fantasy to horror to science fiction to humor. InterText was published from 1991 to 2004. The 57th and final issue of InterText will appear later this summer.

The InterText editor, Jason Snell, has decided to cease publishing InterText due to his growing commitments to work, his family, and other projects. After the release of InterText's 57th and final issue in summer 2004, the magazine will cease. However, he intends to keep the magazine's story archives active and linked to from www.intertext.com.

[Edlin]

Jean Hersholt: "The Complete Andersen"
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This site bills itself as "the most comprehensive edition of
Andersen's fairy tales in English (American) on the internet."
Translated by Jean Hersholt, the tales include "the original 156
printed in Andersen's own time plus the fairy tales found in his
papers and published after his death." Also includes a link to
biographical information about Andersen. Searchable. From the Hans
Christian Andersen Center of the University of Southern Denmark.
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In HTML format, easy to copy into a text doc -> palmdoc or Pluck
http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/index_e.html

It is a great collection plus has some stunning illustrations.

http://img238.exs.cx/img238/8572/kleverrejse513hf.th.jpg (http://img238.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img238&image=kleverrejse513hf.jpg) - http://img225.exs.cx/img225/2518/kleverdetutroligste3726yn.th.jpg (http://img225.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img225&image=kleverdetutroligste3726yn.jpg) - http://img211.exs.cx/img211/1731/kleverolelukoejetor0xk.th.jpg (http://img211.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img211&image=kleverolelukoejetor0xk.jpg)

[pipskicks]

HTML Format Free Jokebooks: http://www.freejokebooks.com

That one didn't work for me...

[Edlin]

That one didn't work for me...
The site has died now. I`ve amended the post, and suggest you try a memoware search for jokes instead :D http://www.memoware.com/?start=0&screen=search_results&p=title^!joke~!description^!joke~!author^!joke~!

If I find another good joke site that converts to ebook well I`ll post it :) Assuming the jokes are PG of course ;)

[Edlin]

Another Hans Christian Andersen site: http://hca.gilead.org.il contains most of his 168 stories, in English & in HTML format.

The same site has a Jules Verne section: http://jv.gilead.org.il andcontains French, English, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Turkish, and German texts: 51 novels, 20 short stories, 4 essays, 5 plays, 6 poems, 2 speeches and 5 interviews. HTML format.

[chippewapub]

http://www.chippewapublishing.com

Many of the books are on ficitonwise, amazon.com, and ebookad.com

[palo1]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned irc as a source - just go on undernet and join #bookz and choose what you want

p

[alimazhar]

need Medical E-books In Prc Or Pdb Format

[pritimae]

i would like to request for this book
Homecoming, Book 1 (Star Trek: Voyager)
thanks

[JulianL]

i would like to request for this book
Homecoming, Book 1 (Star Trek: Voyager)
thanks
You can buy it from ereader.com: http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/11273?book=Star_Trek:_Voyager:_Homecoming:_Book_One_of_Two

[pritimae]

ey JulianL.. maybe if there's a free ebook of Homecoming, Book 1 (Star Trek: Voyager), i would appreciate it. =)

[jreagles16]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/08/02/sklyarov.DTL
This is a good article.

[ebookimpression]

Buy ebooks and download free ebooks, also see our ebook forum.

www.ebookimpressions.com

[eyrthegoddess]

Here's some free psychology classics online: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/
and some free medical books: http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/
Enjoy! :D

[philpalm]

Steve Jordan's site still working:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6544
and Many books? Too bad e-asia books are all in Microsoft reader format(via university of Oregon e-book) edit:Jan 2008 I noticed that University of Oregon e-book now offers books in pdf and mobipocket format(not all, but a few are in this format) This library has books on China, Japan and Korea (maybe later with other asian countries)
I prefer mobipocket to e-reader since the free version works better than the free version of e-reader. Also the mobipocket desktop can convert pdf files, but hey when people pay they will tend to not switch e-readers.

[funkym]

It seems there is a new site coming up with EBooks for Palm:

Palm EBooks (http://www.mobilesoftmarket.com/index.php?cPath=23_30)

[philpalm]

Hmm Palm EBooks link only shows three books for palm.
Well copyright battles have shut down a MP3 site in Russia, maybe it might close the ebook web site in Russia too? Funny thing is the ebook format after I download it is put into mobipocket format!(mobipocket and google and french connection?)

Some folks swear by palmfiction e-book reader(from Russia?) I've tried it and it is interesting. I guess the real readers here at 1src are not an adventureous group, they tend to settle on e-readers that work(yeah why change?) But some newbie might want to cut the experimenting to the professionals and take their recommendations.

[philpalm]

Stump your friends with trivopaedia:
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/trivopaedia.htm
In ISilo, mobipocket , plucker and even memo format for free.
I don't know if it works with IPod but it claims it can do it too!

[Sylvia victor]

I didn't quite understand the flow here. Any recommendations?

http://Svictor1.successuniversity.com/slim

[philpalm]

Many books is still online with plucker, Isilo and palm e-book formats:
http://manybooks.net/
And they have the list 100 books you want to read before you die list....

[p53]

to download the latest biology and medical books visit www.bioXplorer.com

every day a bunch of new links to biology and medical books is added

see the current content (26.10.2007):

A Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data (2004)
Adenoviral Vectors for Gene Therapy (2002)
Aging of the Genome: The Dual Role of DNA in Life and Death (2007)
Alkaliphiles: Genetic Properties and Applications of Enzymes (2006)
Analyzing Microarray Gene Expression Data (2004)
Analyzing T Cell Responses (2005)
Apoptosis and Autoimmunity (2003)
Apoptosis Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology: Approaches to Measurement and Quantification(2007)
Artificial Cells (2007)
Artificial cells, cell engineering and therapy (2007)
Cell Biology - A Laboratory Handbook Vol 1-4 (2006)
Cells and Robots - Modeling and Control of Large-Size Agent Populations (2007)
Cheese problems solved (2007)
Creatine and Creatine Kinase in Health and Disease (2007)
Cytokines and Autoimmune Diseases (2002)
Downstream Processing of Proteins: Methods and Protocols (2000)
Drug Metabolism: Chemical and Enzymatic Aspects (2007)
Environmental Biotechnology - Concepts and Applications (2005)
Environmental Biotechnology - Theory and Application (2003)
Essential Microbiology (2005)
Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors in Cancer Therapy (2000)
Flow Cytometry for Biotechnology (2005)
Food Microbiology Protocols (2000)
Free-Radical-Induced DNA Damage and Its Repair - A Chemical Perspective (2006)
Frontiers in Research of the Renin-Angiotensin System on Human Disease (2007)
Functional Informatics in Drug Discovery (2007)
Functional Protein Microarrays in Drug Discovery (2007)
Fundamentals of Protein Structure and Function (2007)
General Principles of Tumor Immunotherapy (2007)
Genes and DNA: A Beginners Guide to Genetics and Its Applications (2004)
Genomic Regulatory Systems: Development and Evolution (2001)
Genomics and Evolution of Microbial Eukaryotes (2006)
GIS for Health and the Environment (2007)
Halophilic Microorganisms and Their Environments (2002)
Handbook of Cancer Survivorship (2007)
Immune-Mediated Diseases - From Theory to Therapy (2007)
Inborn Errors of Development: The Molecular Basis of Clinical Disorders of Morphogenesis (2004)
Infectious Causes of Cancer: Targets for Intervention (2000)
Insect Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2003)
Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (2004)
Methods in Cell Biology vol.83 - Cell Mechanics (2007)
Molecular Biology and Genomics (The Experimenter Series) (2006)
Molecular Cell Biology (2003)
Molecular Targeting and Signal Transduction (2004)
Nanotechnology For Dummies (2005)
Peptide Nucleic Acids, Morpholinos and Related Antisense Biomolecules (2006)
Physiology (2006)
Plant Propagation by Tissue Culture: Volume 1. The Background (2007)
Rand & Dale's Pharmacology (2007)
Somatostatin Analogs in Diagnostics and Therapy (2007)
Sports Endocrinology (2000)
Subcellular Proteomics: From Cell Deconstruction to System Reconstruction (2007)
The Microbial Models of Molecular Biology: From Genes to Genomes (2003)
The Papillomaviruses (2007)
TNF Superfamily (2007)
Topics in Current Genetics vol.11 - Microbial Protein Toxins (2005)
Translational Control of Gene Expression (2000)
Virology: Principles and Applications (2007)
Water and the Cell (2006)
Web Mobile-Based Applications for Healthcare Management (2007)
Zinc Finger Proteins: From Atomic Contact to Cellular Function (2005)

[mhuhl]

Download free ebooks http://mhuhl-ebooks.blogspot.com

[egadgetguy]

Steve Jordan's site still working:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6544
and Many books? Too bad e-asia books are all in Microsoft reader format(via university of Oregon e-book)
I prefer mobipocket to e-reader since the free version works better than the free version of e-reader. Also the mobipocket desktop can convert pdf files, but hey when people pay they will tend to not switch e-readers.
PalmFiction (http://www.freeware-palm.com/download-palmfiction-v0-14t.html) is not only FREE, it can Read documents in following formats: PalmDoc, zTXT, RTF, MS Word 2.x, 6.0/95, 2000-2003, simple text, text with HTML tags (for remove tags only), TCR (full unpacking). In all listed formats of documents displays only text (without, hyperlinks, images..) Features: Support for ZIP and GZ, etc.

It's a little tough to figure out which parts to install, but once you do, you'll have a wealth of reading on your palm. My treo current has over 300 books on it, in several formats.

I've read all the harry potters and a bunch of ann macafree...

[dmccunney]

PalmFiction (http://www.freeware-palm.com/download-palmfiction-v0-14t.html) is not only FREE, it can Read documents in following formats: PalmDoc, zTXT, RTF, MS Word 2.x, 6.0/95, 2000-2003, simple text, text with HTML tags (for remove tags only), TCR (full unpacking). In all listed formats of documents displays only text (without, hyperlinks, images..) Features: Support for ZIP and GZ, etc.The home page is here: http://palmfiction.sourceforge.net/ (Russian)

And downloads are here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmfiction/

Grab the current 0.14t release.

It's a little tough to figure out which parts to install, You want the main PalmFiction PRC, pfUH_EN.PRC, pfUI_EN.PRC, and at least one of the pfDefaultTheme PRCs. You can optionally install one of the included font files, but it works fine with the default Palm fonts.

but once you do, you'll have a wealth of reading on your palm. My treo current has over 300 books on it, in several formats.I have over 3,000, mostly in Plucker format, but with eReader, Mobipocket, PDF, plain text, and RTF in the mix as well.

I've read all the harry potters and a bunch of ann macafree...Reading the Potter is a neat trick, since they've never been issued in legitimate ebook editions... :p
______
Dennis

[Bodryn]

FYI: Right now to read free eBooks, I use a TRGpro running Palm OS 3.5.3 and it serves me very well for eBooks. I can cut and paste text into a text file on my PC and can either read that directly on my PC or an old HP200LX which uses AA batteries for days without replacement, or can use Aportis to convert to a .pdb file that I can read on my trusty old TRGpro which is a clone of the old Palm IIIx but with a CF card on the back which is accessible directly from the OS so I can have direct access to hundreds of novels. It uses AAA batteries so I can read for many hours on a set, or I can also use rechargeable AAAs if I prefer.

The CF also backs up the unit so I haven't synched it since 2001. (So nothing can be inadvertently lost in case the synch setting is wrong.) This was and is a brilliant combination of technologies but it had to be abandoned by the TRGpro makers (HandEra) because Palm was going to charge them too much for the newer OS. I refuse to be a slave to rechargeable units because what do you do when the rechargeable battery fails? However I sure would like to get a new eBook such as Sony offers, if they had a version that, say, took C batteries so it would run a long time no matter where I went, and wouldn't have to be recharged. A whole library always available and I think it also shows Jpegs and maybe plays MP3 files for people who like audio books.

[James23]

Interestingly, has a few MP3 audio books!

[Tomohawk]

Higuys

It seems to me that after working with this list to find a few ebooks I've wanted to read lately, that getting them for Palm is rare, or otherwise much more expensive than just buying a printed book.

BTW-

Do you think it might be possible to create a page here with some kind of list or chart of all the websites discussed? Things likethe basre URL, free/$$$ most common format, categories (scifi/novels/romance/classics/etc.)

thx

[xell]

Free downloads thru Aug 4th.

http://dealmac.com/Free-e-Books-from-World-e-Book-Fair/243230.html?ref=rss_dealmac_today

Tomohawk: have you looked at the collection over at these sites?
http://manybooks.net/
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://www.chuggnutt.com/ebooks.php

Probably not to many new contemporary stuff like the collection at Fictionwise, but at least the books are free/inexpensive.

[DAvenger]

hey cool i checked out one of the links and it worked. thanks for the post very cool and helpful

[DAvenger]

Thanks YellowRose and Edlin...these are good resources for EBooks

[shoktong]

great sites :D still browsing thru each one :)

[philpalm]

As more people leave Palm, it looks like Memoware hasn't updated too much. IPhone and other bookreaders will start to use Pdf files and can go here:
http://www.pdffiles.org/

[JavaJiveJump]

gotta love ProViewer!! :)

[philpalm]

Memoware is being updated a bit. So much so that the new stuff gets redirected and nothing downloads.....(from last night). This morning I returned and a new file downloaded so I guess that was a temporary thing.

It is a shame new Palm related stuff hasn't been uploaded for a while.

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On an off topic report my memorystick's ebooks became corrupted. You can't delete them but you have to save the files that you can and reformat the whole memorystick. Sometimes corruptions occur when you stop the loading process. It looks corrupted when you see all those funny symbols...

[swiftlet]

AddAll Ebooks
http://ebooks.addall.com/

this is NOT free ebook sites, but ebook meta search engine (aka price comparison)
Meta search 30+ ebook sites, including ebookstores, 5 free ebook sites, and public libraries.

[ianholt60]

Hi.
Hey mate thanks for sharing this links.
Its helpful.
.

[ndlinh]

wow. thank you so much.

[timmini]

Thanks xell for the share, great resources!


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