Free e-books? Where????

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by crich70

Is that 8 shillings 3 ducats Difflugia?

8 shillings 3 pence

s= solidus and was used to indicate shilling & d = denarius and was used to indicate penny/pence both from the Roman coins of those names. This was before they went to decimal coinage.

[Katsunami]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(...e-decimal_coin)

Scrap. Too slow, searching on a tablet

[morriss003]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Www.feedbooks.com has a public domain section, which provides over 3500 free e-books.

Those are all out-of-copyright classics, of course. Most bestsellers need to be purshased, although sometimes they are given away for free for a short time, as promotion.

Stick around. You'll find out a lot of this stuff by following the Reading Recommendations here.

Actually there are some new books at FeedBooks, too. I put one of mine there. Wow! I'm right in there with the classics.

[pidgeon92]

Originally Posted by calvin-c

I've never really understood why the cent symbol was removed from keyboards.

It's not printed on the keys themselves, but it is still available as a character. I use it all the time on my iMac... Control + 4 = ¢.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by morriss003

Actually there are some new books at FeedBooks, too. I put one of mine there. Wow! I'm right in there with the classics.

Of course, Feedbooks sells new stuff too.

Their free books are very well made. I think they use them as advertisements

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by pidgeon92

It's not printed on the keys themselves, but it is still available as a character. I use it all the time on my iMac... Control + 4 = ¢.

Alt + 0162 will get it for you on a Windows box ¢

[Difflugia]

Originally Posted by exscentric

Actually, it was an I didn't think it through.. so sorry I will self punish ..bad boy, bad boy you are banned from posting for two days .. bad bad!

Don't stay away on my account. I knew what you meant.

And rebecca.1960, I recommend that you set yourself up with Calibre software and Google "Apprentice Alf" to find DRM-removal plugins for it. Barnes & Noble and Amazon have a lot more free books available than Kobo and they're easier to find. With Calibre appropriately outfitted, you can take advantage of the freebies at all of the stores instead of just Kobo.

[VictoriaP]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Alt + 0162 will get it for you on a Windows box ¢

And on an iPad, hold down the $ key on the numbers/symbols virtual keyboard. Several monetary symbols show up for you to choose from, including ¢.

I can't add much to the free book discussion that hasn't already been mentioned, but I will note that there's historically been a TON of freebies from even the large publishing houses at the beginning of January, and they're typically available through all the major sites. Often these are first in a series, and probably targeted to take advantage of all the new ereaders & tablets people received as presents.

[BearMountainBooks]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

I think I understand the confusion. On the Kobo web page, there is a link to free e-books, but none of them are free. http://www.kobobooks.com/lists/freee...ampaign=freeus When I sorted the list by price, not one book was free.

There are free books at the Kobo store, just do a search for a book and sort by price. For example, I searched for A Tale of Two Cities, and sorted by price from low to high, and there were several free versions. I have no idea why a link to free e-books would not have any free books, and I could see how that could be frustrating. There are other sources for legal free books, in addition to those already mentioned. Manybooks.net is one you might want to consider.

Or to find free e-books on the Kobo store, just don't click on the Free Books link. Just do a normal search. Say you're looking for free science fiction, you enter "science fiction" in the search box, and when you get the results, just sort by price from low to high. You will see a lot of free e-books.

I actually asked kobobooks support about this (Via the writing channels) because I have a couple of free things up there, but couldn't figure out how to get in the "free" lists and wanted to know how to get listed there. Turns out there is some sort of problem right now, one of which has to do with categories. The response didn't go into a lot of detail, but they said they are "working on it" (although it was not clear if they were working on the category problem or the free problem from the response). The long and short of it was there was no way for me to "get them listed" at this time. I think that something is broken over there right now.

[MikeB1972]

Originally Posted by HarryT

That still doesn't explain why they write ".99c" when they mean "99c". The "c" symbol clearly specifies that it's money, does it not?

Either that or bloody fast

[Laridae]

Originally Posted by MikeB1972

Either that or bloody fast

Yes, but from the context they're clearly not talking about the speed of light here. Einstein would not approve!

[calvin-c]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Alt + 0162 will get it for you on a Windows box ¢

I know (although I rarely remember the exact code without looking it up). It wasn't removed from the font set, just from the keyboard. Seems strange to me-I wonder who makes these decisions? Does the font owner decide which characters are associated with keys & which must be accessed via codes or software? Or does the software publisher (Microsoft, in the case of Windows)?

[AnemicOak]

More than anyone probably wants to know about the ASCII standard and the demise of the cent sign...

http://www.charlieanderson.com/centsign.htm

[Katsunami]

Maybe this money / ASCII thing and the question that started it should be split off

[Graham]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Maybe this money / ASCII thing and the question that started it should be split off

Is there a free ebook on the subject of coinage and extended character sets?



Graham