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Old 06-07-2008, 10:16 PM   #1
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Now that I know about Mobi

Can anyone give me an opinion on the 3000 plus classics on sale there for $20??

Yes, yes, I know they can all be had at PG for free ... got it, don't need to hear that again. My concern is as to whether or not it is well formatted and has had any spell check or other corrections made to it by the seller.

If so, it could be well worth my money. If not .... then probably not so much. Although, even just saving the time on a bulk download could be worth $20 come to think of it.

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if you are looking for classics, i would recomment you start *here*, actually, in the ebooks section ; members of MR have uploaded thousands (over 5000, at last count) of PD books which have been lovingly formatted by them first, and they are all free.

they are infinitely superior to the brut texts you find at PG for presentation (no lack of respect though, mind you ; i love PG for source material). they generally have linked Table of contents at the very least and many have illustrations and other such enhancements. if you decide that it's worth your time to try formatting your own texts one day, in fact, i would encourage you to post them here as well.
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Here's the link.

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/...D=21627#review

I was thinking more in terms of the time it would save me (as opposed to downloading the classics one at a time from here). I'm all about time management here ... what with 22 little mouths to feed everyday.
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well, true, but will you really read all 3.000 of them ? it might not be such a huge investment of time to download them individually as you want to read them.

i'm not trying to convince you though ; if you want to buy the cd, go crazy ! just suggesting other options, in case you didn't realize there were any.
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Oh, no ... all options duly noted. I was just curious if the collection was worth $20. If it's not well formatted ... something like that ... then I would debate it. But, I'm thinking not only of the time that would save me (even at 10 seconds per download ... and you know it takes longer than that .... we're talking about maybe 10 hours or so of time. That translates into roughly $2500 of income for me). But also of something I could easily put on an SD card for a friend as a gift.

Ech .... I think I may have talked myself into it.
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But if you only read a few of them, then it's not saving you much time. You still would have to look through 3000 titles to see if there's something you want. I would recommend feedbooks.com download guide. They have good books and you can download them on the fly over wireless in very little time. You can multitask and make yourself a cup of tea while you wait, unless you've forgone beverages due to the income lost while consuming them.
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But if you only read a few of them, then it's not saving you much time. You still would have to look through 3000 titles to see if there's something you want. I would recommend feedbooks.com download guide. They have good books and you can download them on the fly over wireless in very little time. You can multitask and make yourself a cup of tea while you wait, unless you've forgone beverages due to the income lost while consuming them.
No, I still eat, drink and occasionally take a shower, just like everyone else. Although, I seldom drink tea .... a can of soda is ever so much faster. Also, it's really sort of easy to see the list of authors covered in those 3,000 books, so I have a good idea what I'm getting.

Now, if you had only considered that my original post was asking whether anyone had actually purchased this set and knew about its quality, you could have been helpful in your reply ... instead of a teensy bit snotty.

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I would worry about the collection a bit as one of the reviews mentioned that all of each writer's output is in a single file. Thus all of Dickens is in one 10 MB file.

I have gotten good results from the Silk Pagoda (BlackMask) CD for the Sony Reader. It is in PDF formatted for the Sony/Gen3/Kindle screen. http://www.silkpagoda.com/catalog/pr...e21388b9291455

I'm with Zelda on this one, the best formatted works are here at MobileRead.
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I would worry about the collection a bit as one of the reviews mentioned that all of each writer's output is in a single file. Thus all of Dickens is in one 10 MB file.

I have gotten good results from the Silk Pagoda (BlackMask) CD for the Sony Reader. It is in PDF formatted for the Sony/Gen3/Kindle screen. http://www.silkpagoda.com/catalog/pr...e21388b9291455

I'm with Zelda on this one, the best formatted works are here at MobileRead.
Thank you. That was actually a helpful reply. I'll look into that.
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I would worry about the collection a bit as one of the reviews mentioned that all of each writer's output is in a single file. Thus all of Dickens is in one 10 MB file.

I have gotten good results from the Silk Pagoda (BlackMask) CD for the Sony Reader. It is in PDF formatted for the Sony/Gen3/Kindle screen. http://www.silkpagoda.com/catalog/pr...e21388b9291455

I'm with Zelda on this one, the best formatted works are here at MobileRead.
Instead of getting the PDF disk, go for the one with books in Sony .lrf format -- http://www.silkpagoda.com/catalog/pr...e21388b9291455 Same $9.99 price. And you can sample one or two of the books for the quality of their formatting by downloading from Munseys (http://www.blackmask.com).
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Instead of getting the PDF disk, go for the one with books in Sony .lrf format -- http://www.silkpagoda.com/catalog/pr...e21388b9291455 Same $9.99 price. And you can sample one or two of the books for the quality of their formatting by downloading from Munseys (http://www.blackmask.com).
I looked at this. The DVD lists Agatha Christie as one of the authors. I think here stuff is still in copyright, isn't it?

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There are two pre-1923 Agatha Christies, which are PD in the USA ( but not elsewhere).
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Instead of getting the PDF disk, go for the one with books in Sony .lrf format -- http://www.silkpagoda.com/catalog/pr...e21388b9291455 Same $9.99 price. And you can sample one or two of the books for the quality of their formatting by downloading from Munseys (http://www.blackmask.com).
Can you read that format on a Kindle??
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There are two pre-1923 Agatha Christies, which are PD in the USA ( but not elsewhere).
Yeah, and I found those as a free download .... somewhere. I can't remember now.
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