Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Ebooks free in English and Spanish
There's nothing like having a book in hand, but sometimes it is more useful to download it and take it with us. Our Palm can do that, we have already seen. One point in favor of ebooks or electronic books, is that there are many in the Internet that are in the public domain, so it can be downloaded free of charge. Here are some sites where their achievement, but predominantly in English, also in Spanish:
On the Web there are thousands of electronic books for free download
- Gutenberg.org: the first project to convert public domain books to digital format. Today with more than 5,000. The section of books in Spanish is also important.
- ManyBooks.net: a large selection of books to read on your PDA, iPod, iPhone, etc. Also with a large section of books in Spanish.
- AskSam.com / ebooks /: a small collection of classical texts, such as Shakespeare, as well as laws and government.
- Baena Free Library: a small library of science fiction novels.
- BookRags.com: with a small selection of free books, available in Word document as a PDF.
- Mary Jo's E-Texts: has not been updated in years, but still functional. The books are in DOC format to read on the Palm. Includes classic literature, books of Oz, and some fan-fiction.
- Mslit.com: more than 1,500 texts provided by Microsoft for MS Reader. We already know that you can change the format.
- NetLibrary.net: only a small selection free, although the annual subscription for access to its 500,000 jobs is pretty cheap.
- Oxford Text Archive: more than 2,000 classic texts that can be downloaded in ASCII or DOC. Some require permission from those who have uploaded to the library.
- PlanetPDF eBooks: a decent-sized collection of classic novels in PDF format.
- PocketPCbooks.net: more than 40 classic books formatted for Windows Mobile devices (format. LIT). Therefore, it can transform into another format to pass to the Palm.
- The PDA Librarian: maintained by a librarian of the institute, the site is specifically for Palm PDAs and contains classic literature and books for young people and schoolchildren.
Although not in a downloadable format, it can be read online (or download using Plucker or Sunrise) books in the public domain in these other sites:
- Bartleby.com: Harvard Classics and encyclopedias in an HTML format easy to navigate.
- Berkeley sunsite Classics: a small collection of true classics such as Jane Austen or Thoreau.
- Bibliomania.com: more than 2,000 classic texts, study guides, biographies, and more.
- Grtbooks.com: a large collection of free books even some of the year 200 AD
- Infomotions.com: a collection of over 14,000 documents, from novels to complete philosophy.
- Internet Public Library: a directory of texts hosted on other sites.
- The Perseus Digital Library: a collection of classical texts divided into blocks according to the period they were written.
- ReadEasily.com: ebooks with a site designed for the elderly or people with vision impairment, which lets you change fonts, colors and text size to make it more readable.
- The Online Books Page: a gigantic directory of e-books for the entire network.
Good reading!
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in General
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Well, thank you very much! Some sites do not knew!
I love reading ebooks on my Treo, especially when I'm bored waiting for someone or travel there.
Salu2!
Thanks for the Curran, Mark, I have to quote this huge Curro here: http://www.pdaexpertos.com/foros/viewtopic.php?p=347045 # 347045.
Thanks for the collection.
Here are several other addresses that users have cited in PDAExpertos.com:
- LIBROdot.com
- Noveles.com
- Todoebook.com
- E-libro.net
Thank you very much, the more people can take this list, the better
Well, I under books for this site:
http://librodot.com/
Users have to register (registration is free) and downloads when someone asks you to book a donation but is not mandatory.
Thanks Hiker
... Excellent post-download libracos have said!
I was looking for sites to download books. Thank you. In my LifeDrive I have loaded some of which got off ebookzone.net, but the domain stopped working. I love to read and recommend using the DocsToGo 10, which accepts doc, txt, pdf another program without having to occupy space. Of course it for e-books are required to use the e-reader, but also came installed on my Palm. Now I'm going to Guttemberg and then counting them. Marcos're a big.
Post that began in PDAexpertos regarding your entry, Marcos, has emerged another suggestion: http://www.pdaexpertos.com/foros/viewtopic.php?p=347856 # 347856,
In particular http://www.palmaniac.com/2008/02/12/hoy-me-he-levantado-ocioso/
He had not found the link, Mark, is actually a copy of this entry (quiet, he cited the source), so if you want to delete this comment of mine and the last one, sorry