05-17-2007, 12:12 AM | #1 |
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I'M SORRY BUT
I absolutely cannot believe what amazing people there are out there! Check out:
manybooks.net librivox.org Can you believe the integration?! Go to manybooks, locate a great book like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and it links you to the audiobook! You can then download the audiobook if you wish, transfer it to a nice and fat (2 GB) SD card on your Sony Reader and theoretically follow along as the book is read through your headphones. All for free!! (well, $350) And they have TONS of books! It's too bad the commercial book sellers couldn't figure out a different model. It just seems like wow---what a competition! I can pay $10 for the book and another $15 for the audiobook and not have any rights. Or I can find tried and true classics and get all that for free! And the interface for getting it all is amazing, too. Those two sites have incredible UI compared to some of the other free book sites I've seen. It's so easy to use and they have lots of formats for about any reader! Way to go! |
05-17-2007, 03:09 AM | #2 |
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It is good, isn't it .
"ManyBooks" is about as good as you can get for "machine" book conversion. You can do a lot better, though, with hand-formatted books; if you've not done so already, take a look at the "Book Uploads" forum for a pretty fair selection of books, many of which are not on "ManyBooks". |
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05-17-2007, 10:21 AM | #3 |
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hmmm. lol. It's good to know the general info. I didn't know it was completely machine generated. So there will be a lot more errors?
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05-17-2007, 11:46 AM | #4 |
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They also often grab the book while still in proofreading on Distributed Proofreaders so the books often still contain OCR errors.
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