06-16-2010, 03:47 PM | #1 | |
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Other ebook stores
Hello again forum readers!
If you can't find some of the titles you want in the entourage ebook store, I have been messing around with some other sites. The Barnes and noble store doesn't work, neither does the Amazon/kindle store. I have had luck with ebooks.com http://www.ebooks.com/ and the sony ereader store. HOWEVER, you cannot download books from these stores directly to your edge, you have to use your PC/mac. On the ebooks site you can read books on the LCD screen much like an ipad or cellphone, but it cannot be transferred over to the ereader. Here are some pretty accurate instructions from borisb on how to download books from the sony store or ebooks.com site to your edge: Quote:
LASTLY, if you don't want to pay for ebooks the project gutenburg site (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) offers some good titles. They are all older books/ classics, but they are free and good quality. You can go to this site on your edge and download the books from there really easily. If anybody has had any luck downloading books directly from their edge let me know! I'm trying to come up with a list of sites. |
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06-17-2010, 12:09 PM | #2 |
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Very good info, Kelso. I will go get some gutenberg books for weekend reading!
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06-17-2010, 01:59 PM | #3 |
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I've downloaded hundreds of old (out of copyright) books from Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/. Some collections or scans I can not read either in part or at all on my eDGe, and have had the best luck with University of California and New York Public Library collections. So, if there are multiple copies of a book you want, try other copies to see if at least one will work on the eDGe. I've also watched old TV shows and movies on my eDge - without dling them. IA also has old radio shows in mp3 format. Can you tell that I love IA with my eDGe?
I have also had luck with epub files on Google Books, but not any pdfs with images from there. Pdfs of books without any images are usually ok. enTourage is working with Adobe to have them beef up their eReader software. So, maybe we'll be able to read 'most any pdf from anywhere soon. That'll be a happy day . |
06-17-2010, 02:05 PM | #4 |
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Kelso, if you haven't already, you should read this thread, where eDGe owners layout all the ebook sites they've explored.
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