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GA Russell · 12-07-2009, 01:39 PM

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.

12-07-2009, 01:39 PM	#1
GA Russell Argos win Grey Cup! Posts: 7,679 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	Books that come with the Aluratek and the jetBook 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.