In which Electronic Chaos discovers the wonders of eBooks

Cafe Society
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(Or, “Give me your ebook suggestions”)

Yes, I’ve always known about ebooks, pretty much since they first came out, but I never really wanted to buy the equiptment to read them and didn’t really like the idea of sitting in front of my computer to read a book either.

Then, just last year, I decided to get a $30 Palm V off ebay for a project I wanted to try. It took me to just last Wed. to realize that I could use it to read books. So I went and downloaded Cory Doctorow’s Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and read it, and enjoyed it. Now I’m looking for some more free books.

Now I’m looking for more books which are free (and legal, obviously) to download. I’ve already read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom in print before, and I already know about Project Gutenburg and the like, but I don’t know what to download from there. Help me out!

My main focus of reading is SciFi/Fantasy and humor, but other things have been known to catch my fancy, as long as they’re interesting. So don’t hesitate to suggest anything.

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There are a number of free downloads at Baen’s website, http://www.baen.com/ (don’t type “www.baenbooks.com” as I once did, that leads you to one of those “search sites” that tries to take over your computer).

We buy a number of ebooks from Palm Digital Media (I think their new URL is www.ereader.com); they tend to be a little cheaper than the corresponding ebooks available at Amazon.

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Just going to bump this a bit…

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Heh, I bookmarked this thread before you bumped it, I was just a long time in replying.

Personally, I read fanfic about my favorite series, and would encourage you to do the same. I also read Original pulp-fiction at Pulp and Dagger

By the way, I borrowed a fancy/tiny Mp3 player/picture viewer/text displayer from a friend. It is a lot easier to read than I thought. Thing is, if I cut and past stuff into word, than save as .txt, than it comes out with the occasional words running together on the screen. (For some reason, I don’t find the fact that a word will begun on one line and end on another annoying, however.) Is there any way to tell Word, or Word-like programs to force blocks of text into a certain number of characters per line?

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Try your library system. My ebook downloads have come from the library.

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There is a small selection of eBooks at Embiid.net (along with their high-quality books for sale), including the classic bad novel Atlanta Nights.