Chinese Ebooks (Help for the Hapless)

[strawberrykit]

Hi Everyone,

So for Christmas, I got my dad a Kindle3 and installed DuoKan on it so he would be able to read Chinese ebooks on it.

Of course, the part that I didn't think through, was where I was going to go for books.

I had considered getting him a reader with pre-loaded books (like the hanvon) but was concerned about it arriving on time/the ability to return it etc.

So now he has a kindle and the kindle reads Chinese but I have no books.

Ideally, what I'd like to do is go download (or buy) a 100 to 1000 book pack for him. He's fond of 武侠 books and I know he wants a copy of 本草纲目but beyond that I'm pretty clueless. (I can read Chinese but slowly and tediously.) Dad's a voracious reader too so I also don't know what books he has/hasn't read before.

Any thoughts/help? Please???

Thanks!
Strawberry

[KenJackson]

I don't read Chinese, but I got 501 results when I did this:

• Go to overdrive.com,
• Click on the Keyword Search tab in the search box,
• Click on the Advanced Search link (small text, bottom of search box),
• Select Chinese from the Language pulldown menu
• Click the orange Search button.

Some of the books have a Find a Library link, some don't. So I'm not sure how you're supposed to get them or if they're for sale. Maybe that's in the Chinese text.

[nanotube]

You can search any books at www.baidu.com, its pretty much the Google in China. I searched 本草纲目 and this came up as the first link.
http://www.qisuu.com/Shtml1924.html

I should caution you that many of those ebook sites (you can search 电子书) give you tons of free content, however, I'm not sure if they have the legal rights to publish them.

Hope it helps

[Wisely]

Strawberry,

Go to check the website: http://www.haodoo.net/
It contains many Chinese books. All are in traditional Chinese.

[SlowRain]

You can maybe try something called Shucang. I don't know anything about it, but it's listed in the online reading catalog for Moon+ Reader on Android. You may have to do some configuring or manual downloading for Kindle. It's worth a look.

[yizhihouzi]

One of the websites I went to is bestchinesebooks.com ... they got a really good collections.

[JohnRR]

Amazon China (z.cn) also sells books. For books such as 本草纲目 that are in the public domain, you can find it in various sites such as http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikiso...A6%96%E9%A1%B5

[Catlady]

Check your local library.

You can also find a selection of public domain Chinese-language books at Project Gutenberg.

[crich70]

Not in the original Chinese but Robert van Gulik translated a book of Chinese tales under the title of Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee and some tales with Judge Dee that he wrote are available at Amazon for the Kindle.