Books that come with the Aluratek and the jetBook

[GA Russell]

Aluratek posted on its website the list of books that come free with the Libre:

http://www.aluratek.com/product_info...02&display=All

eBooks include: 20000 Leagues Under the Seas, A Hundred Fables of LaFontaine, A Tale of Two Cities, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Aesop's Fables, Alices Adventures in Wonderland, At the Back of the North Wind, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Beowulf, Collected Works of Poe volume 1, Collected Works of Poe volume 2, Collected Works of Poe volume 3, Collected Works of Poe volume 4, Collected Works of Poe volume 5, Common Sense, Cyrano de Bergerac English, Don Quixote, Dracula, Emile, Father Goriot, Frankenstein, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Great Expectations, Green Mansions, Growth of the Soil, Gulliver's Travels, Hamlet, Heart of Darkness, Hedda Gabler, Household Tales, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Ivanhoe, Jacob's Room, King Arthur and His Knights, Leaves of Grass, Les Miserables, Little Women, Madame Bovary, Martin Eden, Meditations, Metamorphosis, Middlemarch, Moby Dick, Mother, News from Nowhere, Oliver Twist, Plutarch's Lives, Pride and Prejudice, Pygmalion, Renascence and Other Poems, Robinson Crusoe, Romeo and Juliet, Siddhartha, Songs of Innocence and Experience, SwannsWay, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Aeneid of Virgil, The Age of Reason, The Arabian Nights, The Art of War, The Awakening and Other Short Stories, The Bible King James version, The Brothers Karamazov, The Call of the Wild, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Crock of Gold, The Curious Case of Benjamin, The Divine Comedy, The Grammar of English Grammer, The History of Tom Jones, The Iliad, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, The Merry Adventures of Robinhood, The Mystery of the Sycamore, The Nibelungenlied, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Precipice, The Republic, The Scarlet Letter, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Secret Garden, The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Three Musketeers, The Time Machine, The Tragedy of the Korosko, The Trial, The Way of All Flesh, The Wind in the Willows, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Utopia, Walden, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights

So I wrote Ectaco and asked them for their list of free books. Today I received their response:

Books are:

"Jane_ Austen#Pride_and_Prejudice.txt
Jane_ Austen#Sense_and_Sensibility.txt
Charles_Dickens#Oliver_Twist.txt
Charles_Dickens#A_Tale_of_Two_Cities.txt
Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Gambler.txt
Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Idiot.txt
James_Cooper#The_Last_of_the_Mohicans.txt
John_Galsworthy#The_Forsyte_Saga.txt
Sidney_Heath#Exeter.txt
Thomas_Hardy#Tess_of_the_d'Ubervilles.txt
Jerome_K._Jerome#The_Three_Men_in_a_Boat.txt
James_Joyce#Ulysses.txt
Jack_London#Martin_Eden.txt
Jack_London#White_Fang.txt
Jane_ Austen#Pride_and_Prejudice.txt
Walter_Scott#Ivanhoe.txt
William_Shakespeare#As_You_Like_it.txt
William_Shakespeare#The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear.txt
William_Shakespeare#The_Tragedy_of_Macbeth.txt
William_Shakespeare#The_Tragedy_of_Romeo_and_Julie t.txt
William_Shakespeare#King_Richard_III.txt
Sun_Tzu#The_Art_of_War.txt
Bram_Stoker#Dracula.txt
William_Thackeray#Vanity_fair.txt
Oscar_Wilde#The_Canterville_Ghost.txt
Oscar_Wilde#The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray.txt
Victor_Hugo#Les_Miserables.txt
"
"George_Townsend#Aesop's _Fables.txt
A_New_Revised_Version#Aesop's_Fables.txt
Robert_ Burns#Poems_and_songs.txt
Rudyard_Kipling#Just_So_Stories.txt
Anonymous#Beowulf.txt"
"Franz_Kafka#Metamorphosis.txt
Miquel_de_Cervantes#Don_Quixote.txt
Oscar_Wilde#The_Canterville_Ghost.txt
Robert_Stevenson#Treasure_Island.txt
Herbert_Wells#The_Invisible_Man.txt
Herbert_Wells#The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau.txt
Herbert_Wells#The_Time_Machine.txt
"
"Arthur_Conan_Doyle#A_Study_In_Scarlet.txt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#Hound_of_Baskerville.txt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#The_Lost_World.txt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holm es.txt
Edgar_Allan_Poe#The_Gold_Bug.txt
Edgar_Allan_Poe#The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue.txt
"
"Leanardo_Da_Vinci#The_Notebooks_of_Leanardo_Da_Vi nci.txt
Edward_Berens#Myths_and_Legends_of_Ancient_Greece_ and_Rome.txt
Plato#The_Republic.txt"
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holm es.txt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#A_Study_In_Scarlet.txt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#The_Adventure_of_the_Dying_Dete ctive.txt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#Tales_of_Terror_and_Mystery.txt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#The_Sign_of_the_Four.txt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles.t xt
Arthur_Conan_Doyle#The_Valley_of_Fear.txt
Robert_Barr#The_Triumphs_of_Eugene_ Valmont.txt
"James_Matthew_Barrie#Peter_Pan.txt
Lewis_Carroll#Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland.txt
Lewis_Carroll#Through_the_Looking-Glass.txt
Lewis_Carroll#The_Hunting_of_the_Snark.txt
Daniel_Defoe#Robinson_Cruso.txt
Grimm_Brothers#Fairy_Tales.txt
O._Henry#Cabbages_and_Kings.txt
Rudyard_Kipling#The_Jungle_Book.txt
Herman_ Melville#Moby_Dick_or_The_White_Whale.txt
Jonathan_Swift#Gulliver's_Travels_into_Several_Rem ote_Nations_of_the_World.t
xt
Mark_Twain#The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn.txt
Mark_Twain#The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer.txt
Mark_Twain#Tom_Sawyer,_Detective.txt
Mark_Twain#Tom_Sawyer_Abroad.txt
Mark_Twain#Yankee_In_King_ARTHUR'S_Court.TXT
Mark_Twain#The_Prince_and_The_Pauper.txt
"
"King_James#The_Bible.txt
The_Constitution_of_the_USA.txt
Driver_Manual.pdf"

I find the Aluratek's to be more attractive, but of course since the books are available elsewhere (including here at MR!), I wouldn't let the lists be the deciding factor. I am looking forward to the reviews of the folks here who have purchased a Libre regarding that device's firmware.

[Siwickimom]

If I can get some time to do so tomorrow in the daylight, I'll post some photos of the Libre displaying a few of the books off the included card. I am overall VERY pleased with it, though there is no PDF reflow and that does take some getting used to coming from my Sony 505. I'm loading it up with books for my son currently, and I have had zero issues with the firmware, loading files is simple drag and drop, and it displays ePub beautifully.

What else would you like to know? I'll do my best to answer.

[dls81]

I was looking at the Ectaco and Aluratek websites yesterday and on both you can download the book files from the website... so which books you get free shouldn't be a deciding factor at all since you can get ALL of them free.

[GA Russell]

Thanks dls! That's good to know.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by dls81

I was looking at the Ectaco and Aluratek websites yesterday and on both you can download the book files from the website...

dls, I've just come back from the Aluratek website, and I don't believe that you can download the books that come with the Libre from their website.

If I'm wrong, please provide the link.

[uRwhatUr]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

dls, I've just come back from the Aluratek website, and I don't believe that you can download the books that come with the Libre from their website.

If I'm wrong, please provide the link.

I bought the Aluratek Libre, while there is a "CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO DOWNLOAD eBOOKS" it is only a .pdf for a "Guide to Purchase & Download Ebooks from www.ebooks.com".

for the information regarding the ebooks from Ectaco, just downloaded them from http://www.jetbook.net/downloads.php/?refid=29532

[dls81]

I wish I had just copied and pasted the links when I found them. Now i can't remember where I found the Aluratek one. I'll keep looking.

[GA Russell]

My books usually run $12.99-$14.99. Adding the cost of shipping, or the sales tax plus gasoline, I figure that my $117 jetBook Lite will pay for itself with 8 public domain books.

I am enjoying the three included books I am reading now - Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Edward Berens' Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome.

There are a number of other included books that I want to get to soon. I'm thinking that the device will almost pay for itself before I have even downloaded anything!

[Ken Maltby]

Depending on retention of binary Newsgroups that your newsgroup server provides, you
may still find ebooks to download from such as: alt.binaries.e-book.palm

The UseNet is dying, so many of the "alt.binaries.e-book" newsgroups are empty.

(You should try all the spellings for ebook {e-book,ebooks,e-books,ebooks} in the
"Newsgroup Subscriptions" search window.)

[derek80]

I got my partner the Aluratek Libre. With respect to the 100 books included on the SD card, they are all just txt files, and it looks like they were all pulled from Project Gutenberg (the half dozen or so I opened all had the PG introduction). Nothing special since anyone can download all of the files from PG, though it would be a bit tedious downloading 100 in a row.

I was disappointed that they weren't EPUB files, but they look decent enough on the Libre.

[Xanthe]

Just got my Libre and decided to open up "Leaves of Grass" and had to wade through pages of Project Gutenberg intro and then the book started mid-page, which I thought was odd. Then I checked and saw that all those books were in the .txt format. It'll be interesting to see what other book formats look like on it.

Thanks for the link to the Jetbook books download.

[lele]

Does the Aluratek come with a dictionary and if not can one be installed? Looking to get this for my 2 kids but since there are words that they will need help with need the dictionary function. Found a great deal, I can get them on sale for $149. Thank you in advance for your help.

[uRwhatUr]

Originally Posted by lele

Does the Aluratek come with a dictionary and if not can one be installed?

No dictionary and I do not know if one can be installed. I haven't looked into it. I just submitted a support ticket with Aluratek asking about any future dictionary. I will post any response.

[uRwhatUr]

Originally Posted by lele

Does the Aluratek come with a dictionary and if not can one be installed?

Aluratek's response via live chat:

Pete: Welcome to Aluratek's Live Help chat! What may I help you with today?
you: Hey Pete, The libre any chance on a dictionary in firmware?
Pete: There are no plans to include it in the operating system but a dictionary may be added as a free book on the LIBRE. However, I do not know when it will be added.

[JSWolf]

What good is a dictionary that's just a separate book? NONE AT ALL!