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11-26-2003, 08:30 PM
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#46 | | NX80v User
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 | The Online Books Page
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< 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 (did you know little red riding hood has been be banned by some schools). Women Writers Prize Winners (Newbery award for outstanding children's books by Americans, Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prizes) | 
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11-26-2003, 09:00 PM
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#47 | | NX80v User
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| 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). | |
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11-26-2003, 09:08 PM
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#48 | | NX80v User
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| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
< http://www.infomotions.com/alex/>
Free. Mostly Gutenberg texts. Quote: |
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
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11-26-2003, 09:11 PM
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#49 | | NX80v User
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11-26-2003, 09:14 PM
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| Hyperizons Hypertext Fiction
< http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html>
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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.
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11-26-2003, 09:18 PM
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#51 | | NX80v User
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| The Online Medieval and Classical Library
< http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/>
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The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
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11-27-2003, 05:17 PM
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#52 | | NX80v User
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| Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
< http://www.ccel.org/>
HTML, XML, RTF, TXT, PDF, Audio & probally kitchensink formats. Quote: |
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.
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11-30-2003, 05:41 PM
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#53 | | NX80v User
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| 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. Quote:
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
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11-30-2003, 06:52 PM
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11-30-2003, 07:05 PM
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| Rob Hopcott`s collection of short stories
< http://hopcott.com/>
Mostly free, mostly html format. | |
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11-30-2003, 08:17 PM
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#56 | | Gadget Magnet
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| Converting Text/Word Files to Palm Doc
The GNU licensed AbiWord is a word processor which understands Microsoft Word docs and can do a "Save As" any document to Palm Doc format (.pdb file).
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12-01-2003, 03:49 PM
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#57 | | NX80v User
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| A site from my own home town 
eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online
< http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au>
Free. HMTL Format. Quote:
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).
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12-01-2003, 03:50 PM
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#58 | | NX80v User
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| Re: Converting Text/Word Files to Palm Doc
Quote: Originally posted by PatrickS
The GNU licensed AbiWord 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. | |
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12-08-2003, 05:43 PM
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#59 | | NX80v User
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| DL Hoffman Public Library < http://www.dlhoffman.com/publiclibrary/index-main.html>
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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
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Mainly techy & reference books (unless you read stuff like Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Cryptography for pleasure). Has some very good books/links. | |
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12-12-2003, 04:27 AM
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#60 | | Registered User
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| Re: Converting Text/Word Files to Palm Doc
Quote: Originally posted by PatrickS
The GNU licensed AbiWord 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? 
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