Free eBooks

Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver

Free eBooks - 25/04/2006 01:13

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!!
Posted by: Ezekiel

Re: Free eBooks - 25/04/2006 01:48

Finally, a use for my Download them All! plugin. Tomorrow's ride in will be with Mr. Twain.

-Zeke
Posted by: msaeger

Re: Free eBooks - 25/04/2006 02:09

Did you listen to any of them ? The Mark Twain audio books available appear to all be computer generated (computer read)
Posted by: RobotCaleb

Re: Free eBooks - 25/04/2006 02:19

heh.
Posted by: tman

Re: Free eBooks - 25/04/2006 09:05

Quote:
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...
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: Free eBooks - 25/04/2006 10:02

Another one. This one has human readers, but for the better quality versions you need to subscribe.
Posted by: Ezekiel

Re: Free eBooks - 25/04/2006 11:08

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
Posted by: gbeer

Re: Free eBooks - 26/04/2006 23:15

Quote:
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/
Posted by: msaeger

Re: Free eBooks - 30/10/2006 02:32

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/
Posted by: andy

Re: Free eBooks - 30/10/2006 07:24

Quote:
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.
Posted by: msaeger

Re: Free eBooks - 31/10/2006 01:39

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.