Penny
Hello,
Please don't take this question at face value, I am not and never will be someone who intentionally breaks the law. However I recently acquired a lovey Sony ebook and am trying to expand my library. The annoying thing is there are some books that I would be happy to reread (like harry potter for example) but only have in the paper form. And who wants to pay another £6 for a book they already have? I mean with iPods you can put CDs onto the iPod and its basically the same. Anyway, does anyone know of a service which allows you to, I don't know type in the ISBN number of your book and convert it to PDF? And do you think it is then illegal for me to download the book online? Even though I've already paid for it? Well please give your honest opinions. Thanks Penny x
Answer
The best method for finding and legally downloading free ebooks for your ereader is through your local public library. Many libraries are adding the ebook versions of printed books to their collections. Generally, the libraries are adding more recently published ebooks, however.
Some books are not available in ebook format at all - like J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, for example, is not available in ebook format, yet.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/05/harry-potter-ebooks
Talk with a reference librarian at your local public library and find out about the ebooks they offer for library users, what the library policy is regarding acquiring new ebooks, and how you can recommend authors to purchase in ebook format.
Google Books also offers some legal free ebooks:
http://books.google.com
Most are out of copyright - like published 80 years ago or more, however.
If an author and his/her publisher do not offer the books in ebook format, they will not be available to download legally at all. If an author and his/her publisher offers the books in ebook format, they want to be paid for their work. Plus, books, published in any format are covered by the copyright laws of the country where they were originally published and other countries world-wide.
No doubt you do not want someone to take the results of your work without paying for it. Often an act like that is called stealing. As you state, you do not want to intentionally break the law.
Find your local United Kingdom Public Library at:
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/weblibs.html
Best wishes
The best method for finding and legally downloading free ebooks for your ereader is through your local public library. Many libraries are adding the ebook versions of printed books to their collections. Generally, the libraries are adding more recently published ebooks, however.
Some books are not available in ebook format at all - like J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, for example, is not available in ebook format, yet.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/05/harry-potter-ebooks
Talk with a reference librarian at your local public library and find out about the ebooks they offer for library users, what the library policy is regarding acquiring new ebooks, and how you can recommend authors to purchase in ebook format.
Google Books also offers some legal free ebooks:
http://books.google.com
Most are out of copyright - like published 80 years ago or more, however.
If an author and his/her publisher do not offer the books in ebook format, they will not be available to download legally at all. If an author and his/her publisher offers the books in ebook format, they want to be paid for their work. Plus, books, published in any format are covered by the copyright laws of the country where they were originally published and other countries world-wide.
No doubt you do not want someone to take the results of your work without paying for it. Often an act like that is called stealing. As you state, you do not want to intentionally break the law.
Find your local United Kingdom Public Library at:
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/weblibs.html
Best wishes
Online book download.?
Friendly G
I want to download some free e-books related to softwares like design patterns etc. Plz help me.
Answer
I tried http://www.getfreebooks.com
It is good.
I suggest this site: http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
It contains almost all the e-books libraries in the world...
Like:
***** Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no longer in
copyright. So you'll find a great many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since 1971.
The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
Their books are usually in plain text (ASCII) format. However to improve the online reading experience you can also use other reader software (check out our Software Page).
http://www.gutenberg.net
lex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex
arXiv e-Prints Includes e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. From Cornell University with assistance from the National Science Foundation (USA), the National Institute for Theoretical Physics (USA) and the University of Adelaide (Australia). Formats include PDF, PostScript, and DVI.
http://www.arxiv.org
NB: There are mirror sites in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, UK, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, & USA.
Athena Thousands of mainly French and Swiss-authored e-texts, across a broad range of especially Literature, Science & the Arts. In .html &. rtf versions. Also many links to famous works in German, Dutch & English too. Prepared or linked for the Web by the University of Geneva. Expand your mind & education here.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
Bartleby.com The Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this award-winning site. Many classic reference works are available here.
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web browser.
http://www.bibliomania.com
Bibliotheca Augustana A Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Anglica, Gallica, Germanica, Hispanica, Italica, Iiddica, Lusitana, Polonica et Russica. Collectio textuum electronicorum. Hae paginae proponent Musa adiuvante in lingua Latina - facta et ficta.
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts). Irish literary, historical & cultural texts, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English. Presented in HTML, with a searchable online database. An initiative of University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
http://www.ucc.ie/celt
CogPrints Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive - Includes a wide variety of papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer science. Material dates back as far as 1950, although most of it dates since 1990. Some areas of the archive require registration, to obtain a username and password. *Eprints here are defined as the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after refereeing. Before refereeing and publication, the draft is called a "preprint." The refereed, published final draft is called a "postprint." Eprints may include both preprints and postprints, as well as any significant drafts in between, and any post publication updates.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk
Complete Works of William Shakespeare but minus his poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes. For reading online, in HTML.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) An archive of international literature on "the commons" (i.e. that which is held in common or by a community). Many useful features for both readers and contributing authors. A full-text Digital Library, a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, and links to relevant references are included. Thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) & the Indiana University Graduate School. As Adobe PDF files.
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
I tried http://www.getfreebooks.com
It is good.
I suggest this site: http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
It contains almost all the e-books libraries in the world...
Like:
***** Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no longer in
copyright. So you'll find a great many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since 1971.
The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
Their books are usually in plain text (ASCII) format. However to improve the online reading experience you can also use other reader software (check out our Software Page).
http://www.gutenberg.net
lex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex
arXiv e-Prints Includes e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. From Cornell University with assistance from the National Science Foundation (USA), the National Institute for Theoretical Physics (USA) and the University of Adelaide (Australia). Formats include PDF, PostScript, and DVI.
http://www.arxiv.org
NB: There are mirror sites in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, UK, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, & USA.
Athena Thousands of mainly French and Swiss-authored e-texts, across a broad range of especially Literature, Science & the Arts. In .html &. rtf versions. Also many links to famous works in German, Dutch & English too. Prepared or linked for the Web by the University of Geneva. Expand your mind & education here.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
Bartleby.com The Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this award-winning site. Many classic reference works are available here.
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web browser.
http://www.bibliomania.com
Bibliotheca Augustana A Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Anglica, Gallica, Germanica, Hispanica, Italica, Iiddica, Lusitana, Polonica et Russica. Collectio textuum electronicorum. Hae paginae proponent Musa adiuvante in lingua Latina - facta et ficta.
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts). Irish literary, historical & cultural texts, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English. Presented in HTML, with a searchable online database. An initiative of University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
http://www.ucc.ie/celt
CogPrints Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive - Includes a wide variety of papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer science. Material dates back as far as 1950, although most of it dates since 1990. Some areas of the archive require registration, to obtain a username and password. *Eprints here are defined as the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after refereeing. Before refereeing and publication, the draft is called a "preprint." The refereed, published final draft is called a "postprint." Eprints may include both preprints and postprints, as well as any significant drafts in between, and any post publication updates.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk
Complete Works of William Shakespeare but minus his poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes. For reading online, in HTML.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) An archive of international literature on "the commons" (i.e. that which is held in common or by a community). Many useful features for both readers and contributing authors. A full-text Digital Library, a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, and links to relevant references are included. Thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) & the Indiana University Graduate School. As Adobe PDF files.
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
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