Image via WikipediaLooking into the E-reader scene, one of my driving factors in garnering which device would be the best buy was the availability of free E-books from sources other than the proprietary ones. This list is a selection of ones I found and is reassuring that whichever device you choose, most sites seem to offer formats that work with all the major devices out there. Plus the availability of free E-books adds in favor of buying an E-book period.
Clicking on titles takes you to www.smashwords.com but still appears to be connected to the site. Formats available are:
- Kindle (.mobi)
- EPub
- LRF (Sony)
- Palm Doc (PDB)
- RTF (Rich Text Format)
- Plain Text (viewable online and download)
- Online Reading (HTML or Javascript)
At first glance it seems that the only available format is Epub, but the supported devices page provides a few different avenues. It includes a link to a dedicated Kindle page.
Formats available:
Formats available:
- Epub
- Kindle (.mobi)
Formats Available:
- HTML
- Epub
- Kindle
- Plucker
- QiOO Mobile
Formats available:
PDF
Haven't explored this yet so unable to comment on formats or other information. Contains a list of sites that could potentially yield E-books freely. Included among them is gutenberg.org so might be promising.
This site seems to have decent quality and range of downloads.
- Formats available:
- ePub (.epub)
- eReader (.pdb)
- Kindle (.azw)
- Mobipocket (.mobi and .prc)
- PDF - regular, custom and large (.pdf)
- Plain text (.txt)
- RTF (.rtf)
- Sony Reader (.lrf)
I haven't been able to look into this one yet. First impressions seems to be more of a indexical site than a free resource.
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