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#1 Free Ebooks ( I sound like a spambot)

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 12:21 am
by Limepink
A nice sit I stumbled on with a extensive freebie collection for ebook readers, though you can download it to just read on your PC.

Different languages, lots of classics, not too hot on the new releases

Thought some other people would like to check it out. :grin:

#2

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 1:25 am
by Jason_Firewalker
Thanks LP, good selection there on some stuff I have been looking for...

#3

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:47 pm
by Stofsk
I assume that these ebooks are free of copyright and thus they're legal to download?

#4

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:02 pm
by Batman
Ahem. Baen Free Library and Honorverse CDs. As long as the people who HOLD the copyright agree to their works being made available for free even IF those are copyrighted works that should not be a legal problem.

#5

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:32 pm
by Limepink
Stofsk wrote:I assume that these ebooks are free of copyright and thus they're legal to download?
I actually got it off Yahoo Finance, if I remember correctly, so they wouldn't promote anything fishy. Most of the titles are older and in the public domain, or their smaller artists from what I've browsed.


Also, theres this:

Sources

Many of the etexts are from the November, 2003 Project Gutenberg DVD, which contains the entire Project Gutenberg archives except for the Human Genome Project and audio eBooks, due to size limitations, and the Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks, due to copyright. As of July 2004 most current PG texts are available here, usually within the week of release. There are also public domain and creative commons works from many other sources.

Zip archives are stored in the same directory structure as on the DVD, with Author, Title, and related information stored in a MySQL database. Pages are built with PHP and served using the Apache webserver. The server is a 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.4, located at macminicolo.net.

eBooks are generated on demand using a variety of tools, and cached using Amazon's S3 service - which means that the first time anyone requests an eBook in a particular format it will take a bit longer to deliver, but the next time that eBook is requested it will be sent immediately.

#6

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:25 am
by Stofsk
Very good.