There are four different types of books and magazines available on Google Books. First free ebooks that can be read only or downloaded to mobile devices and as pdf or epub documents, then ebooks that are only readable online but not downloadable, then books that are listed but not readable at all, and finally commercial [...]

Categories: Mac, Software, Windows

There are many different ebook formats out there. From plain text documents over pdf and doc files to native ebook formats like lit, pub, fb2 or pdb files. Problem is most ebook readers do not support all formats, so that it may be necessary to convert unsupported formats before they can be copied to the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Grab my Books is a handy Firefox add-on for users who want to convert multiple web pages into the EPub ebook format. The add-on offers functionality to add the active page, a linked page or a selection on a page to the ebook. Everything else is handled more or less automatically, even though there are [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Ah the ebook readers. They are the future for avid (and even not-so-avid) readers. With them you can carry around your entire library (without a hand cart) and even add your own content. But adding your own content can be a hassle if you’re not using a tool to aid you in this task. That [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Mobiles, Open Source, Software, Windows

Project Gutenberg offers one of the largest public domain ebook collections in the world. The website of the project is probably not the easiest to navigate, which is why many users may find alternatives such as Guten Reader useful. Guten Reader is a Java application, which means that users need to have the latest Java [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I love to read. I read a LOT. I read books, news, you name it. I even have a book published for the Kindle (a super hero romp called Shero) The idea of an ereader should appeal to geeks of all ilks. Be it having all of your D&D info in an easy to search [...]

Categories: Advice, Gadgets, Linux, Mobile Computing, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

I had the idea some time ago to create a plugin for WordPress that would take articles from my site, for example of the last month, and turn them into a pdf document that everyone could download from my site. I never managed to produce it but it is still listed in the ideas section [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

I recently came upon a .lit file and was puzzled at first because I did not have any application installed on my system that could read and display the .lit file properly. A web search told me that it was a format for the Microsoft Reader, an e-book reader for Mobile PCs with another edition available for notebooks and desktop PCs.

Categories: Mobile Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

What exactly would come to your mind if I would speak about e-books ? Would you think about pdf documents and other text documents ? Most likely yes because e-books are distributed in text documents nowadays. What if there was a more natural way of presentation, an e-book that would have all the functions of a real book (and more) ?

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