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View Full Version : Baen's Free Library UTAlumnus 06-01-2008, 04:50 PM Baen Books Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library) Many of the books that are in Baen's Webscriptions service are also offered for free download. Edit: they're offered in multiple formats. Off the top of my head: txt, html, .lit, mobipocket, & rocket. LeisureSuitLarry 06-01-2008, 05:11 PM Don't forget to look here before buying on Webscription. http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ These are cds that were released with some of the books. You can get virtually entire series here, like the Honor Harrington series if you pick the right cd. GeoffC 06-02-2008, 03:04 AM I must be missing something here - my free download is costing $6.00!?:chinscratch: Edit: Doh - ignore me, only some are free, and those that are can also be paid for.....if you press the wrong buttons!!!:smack: JSWolf 06-16-2008, 02:53 AM Baen Books Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library) Many of the books that are in Baen's Webscriptions service are also offered for free download. Edit: they're offered in multiple formats. Off the top of my head: txt, html, .lit, mobipocket, & rocket. Do not forget they are also offered in BBeB (LRF) format for the Sony Reader 500/505. carandol 06-16-2008, 05:22 AM And if you're disabled, you can get *all* their books for free. GeoffC 06-16-2008, 05:32 AM And if you're disabled, you can get *all* their books for free. And that is explained, where? IceHand 06-16-2008, 05:49 AM And that is explained, where? On their news page (http://www.webscription.net/news.aspx?showarticle=2): 11/14/2006 Baen Books Free to Disabled Readers Baen Books (www.baen.com), a publisher of science fiction, will provide its books to fans who are blind, paralysed, or dyslexic, or are amputees, in electronic form free of charge, effective immediately. GeoffC 06-16-2008, 06:06 AM Thanks; that is a very noble cause, and is a generous offer that they make.. Well done them... jerryleejr 06-23-2008, 09:03 AM Do not forget they are also offered in BBeB (LRF) format for the Sony Reader 500/505. I just wonder how they do that I thought lrf was only at the Sony Store? JJ pilotbob 06-23-2008, 09:05 AM I just wonder how they do that I thought lrf was only at the Sony Store? JJ The non-DRMed BBeB is a published spec... many apps create or convert to .LRF files. Only Sony sells DRMed (.lrx) BBeB format...as far as I know. BOb jerryleejr 06-23-2008, 09:13 AM The non-DRMed BBeB is a published spec... many apps create or convert to .LRF files. Only Sony sells DRMed (.lrx) BBeB format...as far as I know. BOb I always learn something everyday from this site. igorsk 06-23-2008, 12:45 PM The non-DRMed BBeB is a published spec... Nope it's not. What's published is "Xylog XML" (aka LRS) spec - the source XML format Sony uses in their workflow. The binary LRF format was reverse engineered. Both Fictionwise and Baen use libprs500 (now Calibre) to produce their LRF books. pilotbob 06-23-2008, 12:51 PM Nope it's not. What's published is "Xylog XML" (aka LRS) spec - the source XML format Sony uses in their workflow. The binary LRF format was reverse engineered. Both Fictionwise and Baen use libprs500 (now Calibre) to produce their LRF books. ah, I sit corrected, They said they were going to release the specs, I just assumed they had. |
