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• The Complete User’s Guide To the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2: Tips, Tricks, & Links To Unlock Cool Features & Save You Hundreds on Kindle Content (The Top Guide for the Kindle International!) (Kindle Edition)

  
  Cool Stuff — Authority: 132
  From the author and publisher of Kindle Nation Daily (the #1 paid blog in the Kindle Store), here’s the inside scoop on the latest generation Kindle (both the Kindle International and the Kindle 2).TABLE OF CONTENTS includes Part One: FREE – How to Get Millions of Free Books, Songs, Podcasts, Periodicals & ...
  3 days ago

• Sugar Gets Sweeter: Former OLPC Exec Walter Bender on Netbooks, E-books, Blueberry, and Cloudberry

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 661
  IT , Hardware , people Wade Roush wrote: Every so often, we like to check in with Walter Bender, the former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation. He’s always busy with something interesting—and lately, it’s been Sugar, the classroom-oriented software ...
  4 days ago

• Novel: Moonfleet

  
  dria.org — Authority: 118
  Moonfleet – Classic (1898) novel by John Faulkner describing a young John Trenchard’s adventures as he joins the smuggling trade, seeks a pirate’s treasure, and grows into a man. A fantastic story, well told and absolutely worth reading. Part of my Project Gutenberg Project . (Other reviews @amazon.com .)
  5 days ago

• Opening up PG site for Kindles AND other mobiles: Help Webmaster with donated gizmos or money to buy them

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  For years, Project Gutenberg ’s people debated whether to offer books in ePub, the standard format. Then Marcello Perathoner , the PG Webmaster, just made ePub happen —as one of a bunch for formats created through a conversion scheme. Now Marcelo has a new goal: make the PG site easier to use for Kindles, ...
  1 week ago

• What Michael Hart likes best and least about ebooks

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  Project Gutenberg News has an article by Hart with this title today. I’ll quote from the section about what Hart likes least about ebooks because I think it’s important for him to get is message out there. Meanwhile, in a short note at the end, David will provide another perspective. The thing I perhaps like ...
  1 week ago

• The right way to be an e-book skeptic

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  Not so coincidentally, the guy behind The E-book Skeptic site is co-owner of The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, North Carolina . His name is Tom Campell , and actually he makes some great points—citing, for example, the Kindle fiasco at Princeton University . Look, I’ve been talking up e-books since the ...
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• Lettering, the 16th and 17th centuries way

  
  strange cousin susan — Authority: 139
  Lovely sixteenth century lettering Delightful seventeenth century lettering Both alphabets were found at Project Gutenberg, a site I wish I visited more often when I find stuff like this. I have just finished drawing large Gothic capitals in my journal and have embarked on the second alphabet pictured here. Because ...
  2 weeks ago

• Make free Gutenberg e-books easier to download for Kindle owners—and others with mobile devices

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  Kindle owners can download free public domain books  directly at FreeKindleBooks.org , as I noted here recently. Why spend $1 and maybe even several dollars at Amazon for plain old public domain books that often are just the same titles with price tags added? Now Project Gutenberg volunteer Jim Adcock is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Edgar Allan Poe: An anniversary, a Web site, an exhibit and a novel—The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  Edgar Allan Poe , perhaps destined to be my state’s most famous writer for the eons, died some 160 years ago on Oct. 7, 1849. Just ten mourners showed up for his burial in an unmarked grave . One of the planet’s biggest Poe-haters wrote a lie-filled obit and, get this, served as his literary executor. Poe ...
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• Harvard’s Darnton is right to fret over the Google threat to libraries—but why no recognition of Project Gutenberg?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  Historian Robert Darnton , the director of the Harvard University Library and author of The Case for Books , a valuable work in many ways, is right to worry about Google wreaking havoc on libraries. But here’s one mystery about The Case . While delving into the evolution of books, Prof. Darnton devotes not ...
  2 weeks ago

• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...
  3 weeks ago

• Interesting resource – ManyBooks.net

  
  dria.org — Authority: 118
  A friend recommended a Project Gutenberg book last night*, but instead of linking to the Project Gutenberg site, he pointed me to ManyBooks.net . The site, which is apparently the work of one person, is a bit of an Amazon-like site for free ebooks, most (all?) of which appear to be originally sourced from Project ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Pilgrims, Famine, and the End of Feudalism

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  " . . . it well appeared the famine must still ensue . . ." [i] Famine stalked The Pilgrims the first years. But their conquest of famine helped end old world feudalism. I suggest the reader access the Project Gutenberg online edition of Governor William Bradfords Of Plymouth Plantation.[ii], for the original ...
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• PGP: The House on the Borderland

  
  dria.org — Authority: 118
  The first book I’ve read for the Project Gutenberg Project is William Hope Hodgeson’s The House on the Borderland . This is a very strange, oddly compelling, and frankly bizarre novel in which two fellows travel to a remote village in Ireland for a fishing holiday. After a few days they run across a creepy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Project Gutenberg Project (& Challenge!)

  
  dria.org — Authority: 118
  Like reading? Want to support a good cause? Welcome to the Project Gutenberg Project*! If you’ve never heard of it, Project Gutenberg ( Wikipedia page ) is an almost entirely volunteer-driven effort to digitize, archive, and distribute “cultural works” (mostly books). It was established in 1971 and now ...
  3 weeks ago

• FreeKindleBooks.org for fans of Dickens, Twain and other public domain writers: Easy Kindle book downloads

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  How to download free books directly via your Kindle’s built-in Web browser? Alas, Project Gutenberg and most other public domain sites aren’t optimized right now for devices with small screens and slow browsers. And free download guides—with links to public domain books—are not as easy and convenient to use ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wattpad is now a Project Gutenberg affiliate

  
  Watt'sup — Authority: 103
  We are very excited to announce that Wattpad is now one of Project Gutenberg’s affiliates . Founded in 1971 by visionary Michael Hart to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks, Project Gutenberg is the first and still one of the largest and most well-known collections of free ebooks. Project ...
  4 weeks ago

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