eBooks we're working on

[HarryT]

Thanks for the tip-off, Patricia

Our 4000th/4001st book:

Juvenile fiction from 1922. The type of boys' fiction that was popular at the time, combining an exciting adventure with practical instruction in how to do something (in this case, building a radio receiver).

Enjoy!

[HarryT]

MR user "dynabook" very kindly reported a number of errors found while reading the previous version of "Great Expectations". I've fixed all these (all minor, but still worth fixing) and uploaded a new v6.

I'm extremely grateful to have errors reported. If you find any while reading any of the Dickens books especially, please do "bookmark" them while you're reading and report them to me when you've finished the book. It's virtually impossible to get a completely error-free book, but if people do report errors, each version gets closer to that goal.

Thanks!

[HarryT]

Created and uploaded a new version of volume 3 of my Edgar Rice Burroughs "Tarzan" series, containing books 11-15 of the series, as follows:

11: Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
12: The Tarzan Twins
13: Tarzan and the Lost Empire
14: Tarzan at the Earth's Core
15: Tarzan the Invincible

I previously included "Tarzan at the Earth's Core" in my "Pellucidar" omnibus, but it belongs here too, so I've duplicated it.

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by HarryT

More thrilling juvenile fiction from 1916; the exciting adventures of a boy fire-eater in an American circus. Something for all your children to try and copy!

hehe ! HarryT is looking for trouble...

looking forward to reading the circus boys series !

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

looking forward to reading the circus boys series !

It's a lovely series, that one. Gives me a real sense of nostalgia to read it; it's a memory of a much more "innocent" world which has long-since vanished. It's well-worth reading.

[HarryT]

An updated version of the finish of the "Tarzan" series (those written by ERB, anyway). The books are:

21: Tarzan and the Forbidden City
22: Tarzan the Magnificent
23: Tarzan and the Foreign Legion
24: Tarzan and the Castaways

This now completes the series. Enjoy!

Uploaded v2 for both Sony and MobiPocket.

[JSWolf]

I am working on the Rifters series by Peter Watt released under a Creative Commons License.

Starfish
Maelstrom
Behemoth
Blindsight

[HarryT]

Uploaded a new and improved version of vol 5 of my H. Rider Haggard series for both Sony and Mobipocket.

[HarryT]

I noticed that PG have released an improved version of Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island", so I've created and posted a new version of it for both Sony and MobiPocket (my previous version was Sony only).

This is one of my favourite books; it tells the story of 5 men who get stranded on a seemingly deserted island when their balloon is caught in a hurricane, and who build a "civilization" from literally what they have in their pockets when they land. The island, though, has a secret...

This is the book, it's perhaps worth noting, which inspired the popular US TV series "Lost".

Very well worth reading if you haven't previously done so.

Enjoy!

[HarryT]

A new edition of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas", for both Sony and MobiPocket. The classic story of underwater adventure.

BTW - Jon, I've started using your suggestion of replacing an empty <DIV> by <BR>; you're right - it does fix the blank lines issue in the desktop Mobi reader. I'll use it on all my future Mobi books.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by HarryT

A new edition of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas", for both Sony and MobiPocket. The classic story of underwater adventure.

BTW - Jon, I've started using your suggestion of replacing an empty <DIV> by <BR>; you're right - it does fix the blank lines issue in the desktop Mobi reader. I'll use it on all my future Mobi books.

Happy to help. I was wondering what it was that was losing the blank lines and took me less then 5 min to figure it out once I saw the code for the blank lines.

[HarryT]

A drastically improved new version of the Jules Verne classic adventure, "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" for both Sony and MobiPocket.

This is one of the few English versions which is actually an accurate translation of the French original. By far the most commonly-encountered English version, generally called "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", is a complete "re-write" of the book rather than a translation, with most of the names changed and considerable plot differences. I'll upload that one so that people can see just how different the two versions are!

Interesting piece of triva: this book (first published in 1864) is the first novel to describe what we now call dinosaurs.

[HarryT]

I've just uploaded, for both Sony and MobiPocket, what is still the most commonly-encountered English "translation" of the Verne original, so you can see how very different it is to the "real" translation I posted yesterday. It's a good story, certainly, but it's not what Verne wrote!

[Madam Broshkina]

I am working on The World's Greatest Books. Condensed versions of the classics. Vol 1 has already posted. Their are 8 Vols in the fiction category. For those of you who want you classics even more condensed I recommend Book- A -Minute Classics.

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml


For example here is their version of A Tail of Two Cities:

Doctor released,
Marquis deceased,
Darnay acquitted,
Monarchy submitted,
Marriage announced,
Darnay denounced,
Places are switched,
Blades are twitched,
Seamstress cries,
Carton dies.

[HarryT]

Thank you for creating a proper Mobi book - it makes it so much nicer to read on the Gen3 and Kindle to have metadata in the file.