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What a day!
Just today, I've talked to over half a dozen people about E-book and E-book readers, and in most cases ended up writing down more then a few web addresses but the main one for each MobileRead.com It was fun talking to people, most who had not seen a reader in the flesh before, others who had seen the sony but did not know about others. Another who collects Star Wars books, and was quiet interested in e-books in general and getting a hold of books published in America first ![]() It did bring up a curious point that I'm usually writing down half a dozen web addresses on any piece of paper handy. The sites I usually jolt down are www.mobileread.com wiki.mobileread.com www.fictionwise.com www.booksonboard.com www.mobipocket.com If looking to buy some of the others, for the Sony just head to the local Waterstones For the Gen 3 lately www.whsmith.co.uk usually www.bookeen.com I Figure I should print out a few cards on sheet of card stock, with all these addresses on it. Anyone got any more suggestions on sites I could / should include. ps. And I just realised why I've been trying to avoid going into bookstores lately. My willpower goes out of the window when I go into one. I'd just popped into Waterstones to have look at the 505 in person only, I ended up walking out with a book, I KNEW was £4 cheaper on Amazon but I wanted it now dangit ![]() |
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Baen & Baen Free Library
Project Gutenberg Manybooks BlackMask |
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The 3 primary addresses that I give out are MobileRead, Feedbooks, and ManyBooks. If someone comes to MobileRead, they're going to find references to most of the other sites. If someone tells me that they're gung-ho for SF and Fantasy, I throw in Baen/Webscriptions.
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![]() I completely forgot about Baen, Manybooks and Feedbooks. BlackMask, while being aware of it, I've never used, so I better check it out I Hesitate a bit with sending people straight off to Project Gutenberg as the formatting on many is horrible. I prefer to refer them to the e-book section here and if they can't find it here then check out Project Gutenberg. |
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You might want to add wiki.mobileread.com since some can't find it easily or don't know its there.
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Very nice.
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The small view looks pretty good. I tried clicking on each of the images to view them larger & got an error message reading:
The image “https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...&d=1223067091” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. Dunno what's wrong. Could be getting corrupted in transmission between there & here. Or could be something with Firefox -- it can be very picky at times. Nope -- I get the broken-image icon when I try to view with IE. |
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it does launch in the (think) java scrip interface so if you have scripts, etc off it may be interfering. |
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Very nice! I had to check your location, when I saw the Kindle wasn't included. For handing out in the USA, I'd want to include the Kindle on the card too.
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![]() If anyone wants more general / US specific versions, I'm pretty happy to make them. |
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I would move BEAN from the free & Public Domain section. While yes they are free. It gives the impression that they might be public domain.
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Very good idea!
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