I downloaded the Kindle eBook app to the new company iPhone 4 (that I can videoconference from). It just sort of stared at me. Srsly, where do you get eBooks from?
And so I downloaded Apple's eBook reader app, and was instantly cruising the freebies (courtesy of Project Gutenberg): the Constitution, Declaration of Independence/Bill Of Rights, Federalist Papers, Common Sense, Sun Tsu, Price/Cost Indices from 1879 to 1929 (yes, I am a nerd). I started scrolling by author, rejecting a Mark Twain screed as too cute by half, and then I saw it.
Erotic eBooks.
It's the Internet. Without porn, it would be nothing. You want proof?
Wonder if Rule 34 applies to the Bill Of Rights ...
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"Srsly, where do you get eBooks from?"
For the Kindle e-app, you go to Amazon.com and you start searching for stuff that a) has a Kindle version and b) is free.
Try http://ereadernewstoday.com/free-kindle-books-5-free-books-for-5-22-12/6713666/
And now I'm trying to figure out a sexy way to express the 3rd Amendment. Thanks a bunch!
Baen has a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy in their free library if you're into that.
Baen Free Library
I was quite fond of the Stanza e-reader program on my iPod Touch. I liked its UI much better than the Kindle or Nook apps. (Touch anywhere on the right third of the screen to page forward, the left third to page back, and the middle to get the menu. Much easier to read one-handed that way.) Amazon bought Stanza a while back and everybody figured they'd kill it, but they released an iOS 5 compatible version late last year.
BTW, I highly recommend Calibre (free) as an ebook manager. It'll do format conversions and sync with just about every device known to man. A friend of mine was able to convert a bunch of Air Force training PDFs to work on her Kindle so she could study when she was away from her computer. She finished her training about 3 weeks early that way.
LOL, you've got WAY too much time on your hands... :-)
Ditto on Calibre, you can use it to convert an awefull lot of formats to an awefull lot of other formats to be read by the reader of your choice, plus its handy to manage the ebook library with.
Also, just think of oldies-and-goodies and search the author; you'll find Dickens, Shakespeare, Twain, Doyle etc. are either free or very close to it.
I suppose we could classify half of your blog as gun pr0n, so... Rule 34 and the Bill of Rights? Hells yeah!
It's either that or a dozen horrible puns on writ of habeus corpus, and nobody wants that.
nightfly, LOL.
I need to do more Gun pr0n ...
Late to the party, but Apple's rules on in-app purchasing forced Amazon to remove the in-app purchasing in their app. You go to Amazon's web page to obtain books. The goal was apparently your experience, to force traffic to Apple's own store...
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