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#280100 - 25/04/2006 01:13 Free eBooks
SE_Sport_Driver
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Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
I know that feeling a webmaster can get to find content as quick as possible, but this is ridiculous! Prepare to laugh!

Here is the page for more worthwhile stuff... (is this legal?) http://www.gutenberg.org

Apostrophe, apostrophe!!
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#280101 - 25/04/2006 01:48 Re: Free eBooks [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
Finally, a use for my Download them All! plugin. Tomorrow's ride in will be with Mr. Twain.

-Zeke
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#280102 - 25/04/2006 02:09 Re: Free eBooks [Re: Ezekiel]
msaeger
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Registered: 23/09/2000
Posts: 3608
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
Did you listen to any of them ? The Mark Twain audio books available appear to all be computer generated (computer read)
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#280103 - 25/04/2006 02:19 Re: Free eBooks [Re: msaeger]
RobotCaleb
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Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
heh.

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#280104 - 25/04/2006 09:05 Re: Free eBooks [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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is this legal?

Yes. Project Gutenberg is a fairly well known project and it is all legal.

Using a download manager to recursively suck down large amounts of content is probably not going to be welcomed however...

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#280105 - 25/04/2006 10:02 Re: Free eBooks [Re: tman]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Another one. This one has human readers, but for the better quality versions you need to subscribe.
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#280106 - 25/04/2006 11:08 Re: Free eBooks [Re: msaeger]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
I tried to listen(and gave up, sadly). I was hoping they'd be better quality text to speech. C'est la vie! It's still a great resource. E-books were probably the best use I ever made from my Ipaq.

tman- I used it for one Twain book's worth of mp3 and they filled my 6400kb/sec cable connection solid. They seem well-mirrored to boot (five options for my selection).

-Zeke
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#280107 - 26/04/2006 23:15 Re: Free eBooks [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
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I know that feeling a webmaster can get to find content as quick as possible, but this is ridiculous! Prepare to laugh!

Here is the page for more worthwhile stuff... (is this legal?) http://www.gutenberg.org

Apostrophe, apostrophe!!


For Some SciFi look to http://www.baen.com/library/
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#280108 - 30/10/2006 02:32 Re: Free eBooks [Re: msaeger]
msaeger
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Registered: 23/09/2000
Posts: 3608
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
I am digging up this thread because I found another site with free audio versions of books in public domain. These are read by humans.

http://librivox.org/
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#280109 - 30/10/2006 07:24 Re: Free eBooks [Re: msaeger]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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I am digging up this thread because I found another site with free audio versions of books in public domain. These are read by humans.

http://librivox.org/


Listening to the beginning of a few chapters makes you realise just how good the professionals that are used for commercial audio books are. I don't think I could listen to any of the Librivox books I have sampled all the way through, the quality of the reading and the voices of the people reading are just not up to it.

Which is a shame given the massive amount of effort that they have obviously put into it.
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#280110 - 31/10/2006 01:39 Re: Free eBooks [Re: andy]
msaeger
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Registered: 23/09/2000
Posts: 3608
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
I don't know the one I listened to was pretty good. It was the secret garden (ya stop laughing). The woman who read it was a teacher of some kind so maybe that makes a difference.
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