Chinavasion | Electronics Gadgets Blog » How To Get Completely Free Ebooks We Review 7 Free Ebook Sites Not only do MP4 players like the CVSJ-1316-8GB make great e-book readers you can get books for them for free. It’s funny that the written word has flourished in this digital age, despite the ongoing plight of newspapers and radio stations. Sales for trade ebooks were worth $14 million for June in the US alone, 132% more than what sales were last year according to the Association of American Publishers. It appears authors are likely to have a long and healthy future, even though the world is heading more and more towards digital media. This is probably why Sony has jumped into the dedicated ebook reader pool with Amazon, releasing the Daily Edition However, you can read ebooks on more than just dedicated devices like the Kindle and Daily Edition, in fact these are just some of the devices available from Chinavasion that have an ebook function. Thankfully there are also a lot of places you can get ebooks for free. Project Gutenberg That doesn’t mean that the books aren’t good. Project Gutenberg
Why Preserve Books? The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive by Brewster Kahle, June 2011 Press on this: NYtimes Books are being thrown away, or sometimes packed away, as digitized versions become more available. This is an important time to plan carefully for there is much at stake. Digital technologies are changing both how library materials are accessed and increasingly how library materials are preserved. After the Internet Archive digitizes a book from a library in order to provide free public access to people world-wide, these books go back on the shelves of the library. We noticed an increasing number of books from these libraries moving books to “off site repositories” (1 2 3 4) to make space in central buildings for more meeting spaces and work spaces. Two of the corporations involved in major book scanning have sawed off the bindings of modern books to speed the digitizing process. There is also a connection between digitized collections and physical collections. The goal is to preserve one copy of every published work.
30+ Accessibility Tools, Softwares & Resources for The Visually Impaired Free ebooks are meant to be read and enjoyed by everybody regardless of physical imperfections, hence why this post is being made, although I must admit that this should be the first post that should be posted here. Having said that, do join me in the journey to increase this list of resources to make it a comprehensive one, to provide and create the proper accessibility channels. I’m sure there are other list out there which covers some of the areas below, but I do hope this post will somehow be a part of the whole effort in making this a reality. Audio Ebooks Been covered here, 35 total sites found so far providing free downloadable audio ebooks. Adobe Reader 9 Accessibility Taking note that 99% of the ebooks on this site are in PDF format, Adobe has a site dedicated specifically in providing information in greater details on making it easier for people with disabilities to read PDF files. Screen Readers (Free) One of the most obvious ones came with your copy of Windows. Other Resources
How to download e-books from mIRC | Calvin's Hub Before we got torrents, P2P and even before Napster, mIRC was the best place where you could get lots of movies, apps and mp3’s for free. It’s not an easy thing to use for downloading but once you get the hang of it, you’ll learn of its benefits. I’m an avid user of mIRC back in college and I still have it installed in my machine for the occasional hard-to-find mp3’s and for e-books. It’s very difficult to find the e-book that you want from LimeWire or torrents so I’ll teach you how you could easily get them from mIRC. The instructions here are a bit detailed so forgive me if you’re looking for a short guide. You have to get the latest version of mIRC and install it in your machine. Joining a channel Before you can go to a channel and start your downloads, create some login details first. It’s time to connect to a server. Server: UndernetChannel: #Bookz Server: IRCHighwayChannel: #ebooks Since I’m having trouble joining channel #bookz in Undernet (always full), I’ll go to IRCHighway instead.
Find Free eBooks with Google (Electronic Books) Google will easily show you all those ebooks that are out there for free. Read on to find out how to use this search engine to locate free reads. Once you learn Google Search, you can find anything. Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(“/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip) What does all of this mean? If you would like to look for a particular author or title, just tack it to the end of your search. Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(“/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip) +”o’reilly” This uses the same idea but attempts to focus on directories that contain O’Reilly information. If you have any other interesting search suggestions, please post in the comments below. Share this article If this article helped you, please THANK the author by sharing. The Conversation Follow the reactions below and share your own thoughts.
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