DLSS Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 *update* THEY're UP now !! check it out -> http://worldlibrary.net/ the ebook fair will be making 1/3 million eBooks available forfree on their site . starting from July 4th-August 4, 2006. and plan's to have 1 million ebooks freely available by 2008 July 4th to August 4, 2006 marks a month long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the first step taken towards today's eBooks, when the United States Declaration of Independence was the first file placed online for downloading in what was destined to be an electronic library of the Internet. Today's eBook library has a total of over 100 languages represented. The World eBook Fair welcomes you to absolutely free access to a variety of eBook unparalleled by any other source. 1/3 million eBooks await you, all free of charge for the month from July 4 - August 4, 2006, and then 1/2 million eBooks in 2007, 3/4 million in 2008, and ONE million in 2009. Ten times as many eBooks are available from private eBook sources, without the media circus that comes with 100 billion dollar media mavens such as Google. The World eBook Fair has created a library of wide ranging sample of these eBooks, totaling 1/3 million. Here are eBooks from nearly every classic author on the varieties of subjects previously only available through the largest library collections in the world. Now these books are yours for the taking, free of charge, to keep for the rest of your lives. This event is brought to you by the oldest and largest free eBook source on the Internet, Project Gutenberg, with the assistance of the World eBook Library, the providers of the largest collection, and a number of other eBook efforts around the world. The World eBook Library normally charges $8.95 per year for online access, and allows unlimited permanent downloading. During The World eBook Fair all these books are available free of charge through a gateway at http://www.gutenberg.org YOU ARE INVITED! You are encouraged to participate in The World eBook Fair, either to download any or all of the 1/3 million eBooks provided here or to add your own eBooks. The World eBook fair is currently scheduled for the next few July and August periods as follows: 2007 1/2 Million eBooks 2008 3/4 Million eBooks 2009 One Million eBooks The World eBook Fair, Project Gutenberg, and World eBook Library, along with our other participants, join together to encourage you to assist in bringing many entire libraries to the general public and to encourage ever increasing levels of literacy and reading. We hope the invention of eBooks will advance the world as much as did the invention of The Gutenberg Press, and look forward to the Neo-Industrial Revolution following the advent of eBooks, just as the invention of The Gutenberg Press undoubtedly led to the first Industrial Revolution, and your participation can help bring this new revolution in reading and libraries to the world. We heartily thank you for visiting The World eBook Fair. We hope you and yours will find lifetimes of reading materials to expand your horizons over the years. theire site is -> http://www.worldebookfair.com/ but nothig will b on it b4 4th july ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I've seen things like this already and they have never released any ebooks, i guess I will have to wait and see if this one does. Not that there will be any books which are worth downloading probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Toxie Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I'm with stingwray on this one, but I can always hope. I love having e-books as a referance library (tech manuels, o'reily books etc) but I can never see an e-book replacing the old fashioned paperback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I love having e-books as a referance library (tech manuels, o'reily books etc) but I can never see an e-book replacing the old fashioned paperback. I find reading large amounts of text on the screen really difficult in the first place, plus I always like having something physical for my money. I'm not going to spend £15 on a ebook and not have the book on myshelf. Create for quickly looking through and having with you on the go though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForsetiAvatar Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 I find reading large amounts of text on the screen really difficult in the first place I feel the same way about reading text on screen. This puppy comes in handy tho. http://www.ebookwise.com/ebookwise/ebookwise1150.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLSS Posted June 6, 2006 Author Share Posted June 6, 2006 I find reading large amounts of text on the screen really difficult in the first place I feel the same way about reading text on screen. This puppy comes in handy tho. http://www.ebookwise.com/ebookwise/ebookwise1150.htm Content:The eBookwise-1150 can display premium content from eBookwise.com, including best-sellers from major publishers, with more signing on all the time. See our home page for major best-selling authors and titles, or browse our extensive catalog for details. In addition, the eBookwise-1150 can display your own personal content in the following file formats: plain text (.txt), rich text format (.rtf), Microsoft Word documents (.doc), HTML (.htm or .html), and Rocket eBook Editions (.rb). There are several ways to transfer personal content onto the device still needs pdf support tho ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForsetiAvatar Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Acrobat 7 will convert PDF to HTML (and a few other editable formats) Also for older versions there is PMC Magellan and other add-ins to convert. I got my MSCE prep material on it this way. But yeah, native support would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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