University of Chicago Announces free Monthly ebook

arshield · 11-19-2009, 06:31 PM

The first book in the program is below. epub format

Link http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html

The Birthday Book
Edited and Translated by Holt N. Parker
120 pages, 9 line drawings 5 x 7 © 2007
E-book Free! See form below (about e-books)
ISBN: 9780226099774
Cloth $25.00
ISBN: 9780226099743 Published February 2007
“[Roman grammarian and writer] Censorinus distills the wisdom of several strains of philosophy, extracting whatever seems to have any bearing on births, days and birthdays: theories of the origin of the human species, the formation of the individual foetus, the principles of astrology, the ages of man, the nature of time, eons, centuries, years, months, days and hours.”—London Review of Books

sononkyo · 11-19-2009, 07:36 PM

Thanks! Perfect for my PRS300. Between this and my superb library with their ade .epub and google domain books, I am in reading nirvana

markbot · 11-19-2009, 08:25 PM

Great! I would expect such innovative thinking for uChicago.

boydcarts · 11-19-2009, 10:47 PM

I poked around a bit and saw that they offer a variety of "ownership" options. For $5 you can "own" the book for 30 days along with some printing and copying rights. You also have a 180 day ownership option for a higher price. For the same price as the paperback (on the few I looked more closely at) you can buy the entire book outright.
I think I like this idea. To me $5 is a reasonable amount to "rent" the book for a month. I pay almost that much to rent a movie from Blockbuster for one week. Obviously I'd check the library first, but given the types of books provided by UCP, I think this could have value.

SteveK · 11-19-2009, 11:18 PM

This is certainly an interesting concept. Access to academic and general interest books for a nominal rental fee. It's certainly an intriguing idea.

I had a NYPL out-of-state library card which cost me $100. That same $100 would allow me access to 20 books through this program, and I'm sure I didn't check out 20 books over the past year through NYPL. I'll certainly add the UCP website to my list of favorites.

Thanks for the information!

SteveK

luqmaninbmore · 11-19-2009, 11:41 PM

Too bad they aren't innovative enough to leave it up to the book-buyers themselves to determine whether their computer systems are capable of downloading and opening the books. They won't give me an actual download link that I can drag and drop on ADE because I'm running linux. There's just a brown box telling me to install ADE. Typical corporate arrogance.

AprilHare · 11-20-2009, 01:19 AM

Lovely little book, thanks for finding the free offer!

AprilHare · 11-20-2009, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore

Too bad they aren't innovative enough to leave it up to the book-buyers themselves to determine whether their computer systems are capable of downloading and opening the books. They won't give me an actual download link that I can drag and drop on ADE because I'm running linux. There's just a brown box telling me to install ADE. Typical corporate arrogance.

That's when you look at the source code

weedfreak · 11-20-2009, 05:23 AM

Looks like the server fell over, probably couldn't cope with nasty Linux computers trying to access it.

luqmaninbmore · 11-20-2009, 06:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by weedfreak

Looks like the server fell over, probably couldn't cope with nasty Linux computers trying to access it.

Lol, is linux a vector for computer diseases now?

bibliovault · 11-20-2009, 10:49 AM

Hi--we're very sorry for the overnight outage. The free Birthday Books are back up--please enjoy.

Also, any links issued last night should work fine now. (The server issue wasn't about the free books, or linux..! We love linux.)

Latinandgreek · 11-20-2009, 05:20 PM

Fantastic, thanks for the link.

AprilHare · 11-20-2009, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore

Lol, is linux a vector for computer diseases now?

More likely the cure

AprilHare · 11-20-2009, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bibliovault

Hi--we're very sorry for the overnight outage. The free Birthday Books are back up--please enjoy.

Also, any links issued last night should work fine now. (The server issue wasn't about the free books, or linux..! We love linux.)

Thanks for letting us know

Good to know people at The University of Chicago Press appreciate a good operating system too

ProDigit · 11-20-2009, 10:57 PM

Thanks for sharing the link!

11-19-2009, 06:31 PM	#1
arshield Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 64 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: Kindle	University of Chicago Announces free Monthly ebook The first book in the program is below. epub format Link http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html The Birthday Book Edited and Translated by Holt N. Parker 120 pages, 9 line drawings 5 x 7 © 2007 E-book Free! See form below (about e-books) ISBN: 9780226099774 Cloth $25.00 ISBN: 9780226099743 Published February 2007 “[Roman grammarian and writer] Censorinus distills the wisdom of several strains of philosophy, extracting whatever seems to have any bearing on births, days and birthdays: theories of the origin of the human species, the formation of the individual foetus, the principles of astrology, the ages of man, the nature of time, eons, centuries, years, months, days and hours.”—London Review of Books

11-19-2009, 11:41 PM	#6
luqmaninbmore Da'i Posts: 1,144 Karma: 1217499 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Baltimore Device: Toshiba Thrive, Kobo Touch, Kindle 1, Aluratek Libre, T-Mobile Comet	Too bad they aren't innovative enough to leave it up to the book-buyers themselves to determine whether their computer systems are capable of downloading and opening the books. They won't give me an actual download link that I can drag and drop on ADE because I'm running linux. There's just a brown box telling me to install ADE. Typical corporate arrogance. Last edited by luqmaninbmore; 11-19-2009 at 11:44 PM.

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SteveK Addict Posts: 272 Karma: 1017902 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Kindle PW, PW2, Kindle3, Kobo Glo, tablets, phone	This is certainly an interesting concept. Access to academic and general interest books for a nominal rental fee. It's certainly an intriguing idea. I had a NYPL out-of-state library card which cost me $100. That same $100 would allow me access to 20 books through this program, and I'm sure I didn't check out 20 books over the past year through NYPL. I'll certainly add the UCP website to my list of favorites. Thanks for the information! SteveK

11-20-2009, 01:19 AM	#7
AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	Lovely little book, thanks for finding the free offer!

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weedfreak Addict Posts: 302 Karma: 185297 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Ankh Morpork Device: calibre	Looks like the server fell over, probably couldn't cope with nasty Linux computers trying to access it.

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bibliovault Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 262 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: all!	Hi--we're very sorry for the overnight outage. The free Birthday Books are back up--please enjoy. Also, any links issued last night should work fine now. (The server issue wasn't about the free books, or linux..! We love linux.)

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Latinandgreek Warrior Princess Posts: 5,038 Karma: 9724231 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-505; PRS-350, PRS-T1, iPad, Aura HD	Fantastic, thanks for the link.

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ProDigit Karmaniac Posts: 2,553 Karma: 11499146 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Miami FL Device: PRS-505, Jetbook, + Mini, +Color, Astak Ez Reader Pro, PPW1, Aura H2O	Thanks for sharing the link!