Where to find free ebooks and how to get them on your reader

Apr 08 10

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There are a lot of places to find (legal) free ebooks.  My favorite is Manybooks.net because it will let you download different formats of each book to fit different ebook reading software and hardware.

You might think that these public domain (and some creative commons) ebooks are just a lot of old junk, but it depends upon your interests.  If you dig and get creative with your searches you can dig out quite a bit of interesting old fiction and non-fiction.  For instance there are some good US Civil War, memoirs and regimental histories, World War I memoirs and histories, lots of biographies, and history in general available. There are also old religious tracts which might interest the faithful.

In fiction there are wonderful mysteries and many youth adventure stories for young readers.  And that is just scratching the surface.  The Edwardian’ s, folks from 100 years ago, had a command of written English that we can only envy today.  It would do us all good to expose ourselves to it a little more.

How to Get Your Free eBooks on Almost Any Device (Including Kindle and Nook)

So say you got a new Kindle or Nook reader, and you have found some good books on Manybooks to read, now you want to get them on your reader – How?  Fortunately Manybooks has the best help pages with simple instructions for just about any ebook reading device.

All you iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle and Nook users should try looking for some free books to read, in rough economic times free is good. Come back and let me know what you found interesting.

Amazon Releases Kindle App for iPad

Apr 03 10

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The news that Amazon has released the Kindle app for iPad just confirms my intention to buy an iPad over a dedicated ebook reader like the hardware Kindle or Barnes and Noble’s Nook.  I want to have the choice of where I buy my ebooks and what software I read them on, iPad will let me do that because it runs ebook reading and store software from many vendors: Amazon, Apple’s iBook, Barnes and Noble, eReader and many others, whereas Nook and Kindle lock me in to one proprietary bookstore.

Now I just have to figure out which iPad I want: the Wifi only version or the Wifi+3G version.

Source: Teleread.