E-Book Search Engines

[blueeyes]

how do i get my kobo to down load from ellora's cave step please by step my kobo 4 days old. any easy way to some free ebooks {like the cave?} thanks from blueeyes in P.E.I. CANADA

[taming]

Welcome blueeyes. I took a brief look at Ellora's Cave and it seems that they do not have ePUB books (the format Kobo uses best, PDF's being problematic without reflow). You can though download the html versions and then convert them into ePUBs using Calibre. They can then be put onto your Kobo reader. There is no 2 second step by step, so take a look at the Calibre forum, download the program, read the guide etc. If this is too difficult, download the PDF versions, use the Kobo horizontally and see if that is good enough.

[GeoffC]

blueeyes

Welcome to mobileread ....

Free books available, follow the links in my signature line.

[roseprose]

Mucho thanks to all. Now this noodnik newbie is excited to find e-books!

[Bookbee]

Also, EbookAnt.com

[thomass]

a good list of links: http://kindlehome.wordpress.com/2011...indlelinks/#13

[rpatter]

Thank you, great info.

[rwillmer]

Originally Posted by nomesque

Is there an ebook-search-with-geographic-restrictions-marked engine out there? ie, I search for '"terry pratchett" available: Australia'. Or is that sort of information just too ridiculously difficult to get hold of automatically? (God knows it's hard enough to get manually, at times!)

My site http://luzme.com has separate searches for Australia, as well as Canada, the UK, and the USA.

I'll be adding some other European countries soon.

Rachel

[carpetmojo]

Is there an MR-compiled list, like for Libraries etc.. ?

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by carpetmojo

Is there an MR-compiled list, like for Libraries etc.. ?

Not that I am aware of. There are some listed in the wiki under e-book stores near the bottom but there is not a dedicated page but of course it is a wiki so there is no reason there couldn't be. There is also a page on a Unified ebook search engine.

Dale

[T.D.02809]

CALIBRE has a feature where you enter the book name and it will conduct a massive search covering Google Books, Sony, KOBO, Amazon, B&N, Waterstones, and many others. There is a list from which you can select where to search. It is worth looking at since it will come up with a list that allows you to connect to the site where it is for sale or , not sure about this, which library. I hope this answers the question I think is being asked.

[rigiweb]

Originally Posted by Drezin

I remember a site someone gave me where you searched a book, and it found all the places you could buy it, and for what devices. I found it to be useful for Sony books, but can't remember what the site was.

Also, if anyone has any really good places to search for books that work on the sony readers that have other choices aside from sony's store, pleas elet me know.

Thanks in advance!

Everyone should have Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/download

[rwillmer]

Quick update on my site http://luzme.com, I added a Watchlist feature recently which has been getting some good feedback. Basically if the book is too expensive right now, add it to your watchlist on Luzme, and I'll mail you when the price drops below the limit you've set.

[wpcreader]

EBOOK Finder:

http://www.moreofit.com/

I just discovered this website which list ebook sources [500] at a time. Just enter the url of your favorite ebook website and "moreofit" will provide a list of up to 500 similar websites. The list can then be narrowed by many different sub-categories. I believe this will be a great resource.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by grantdeakin

Found a site based in Indonesia for eBooks in all the main formats. They claim to access 2nd Hand eBooks, but I do not now about this! But, I do know their eBooks are clean, well formated and very cheap. Prepared to pay for an eBook that isn't a crap scanned and text recognised, proorly formatted, hard to read 5th rate eBook. Reading should be joyful.

Second hand ebooks? Yeah right...