E-books save real bucks
Desktop, PDA, Software, e-books
Just a tip to point you toward an excellent research resource. Project Gutenberg digitizes books that are in the public domain (either placed there intentionally or whose copyright has expired) and distributes them via the internet.
You can choose to donate a reasonable sum, but the material is provided at no particular cost to the user. I flip ‘em a fiver once a year just to keep the lights on.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
While the principle goal of Project Gutenberg (PG) is to keep public domain publications from being lost to the reading public, the link below will help you create your own e-books.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Help_on_Bibliographic_Record_Page#Plucker
If you are, perhaps an employer wanting to keep a single version of a product manual available to all your technicians or a publisher of some sort wanting to make your written material available in an additional format at a minimum cost to yourself, Plucker might serve your needs extremely well. To conserve space, PG does not include graphics in its files, but you could.
I, for instance, read three magazines each month and it would be extremely handy if they were available in a form I could carry suspended from my belt in my PDA. This same publisher recently made the audio version available for download as MP3’s, so perhaps there is reason for me to hope regarding the text versions.
For more excellent resources, search on Google using the term “free books”. There are thousand and thousands available, many from authoritative sources such as government agencies and publicly funded schools. And don’t turn your nose up at international sources … information, after all, flies no flag.
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
And, finally, a hand-compiled (cherry-picked but incomplete) list of resources for free e-books.
http://www.friedbeef.com/2007/04/09/best-places-to-get-free-books-the-ultimate-guide/
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Br. Bill @ April 20, 2008