Another Five Books

Ah, the joys of having access to multiple library networks ... i very much recommend it!  (One of the pirks of moving from one county to another.)

Five more books:  a couple of .AZWs (which de-DRM directly into .MOBIs) and three .AZW3s (which de-DRM back into .AZW3s — have to test whether my Kindle will be happy with them; if not, i'll have to convert them into MOBIs too).

Never delete your originals!  Convert them, yes; but then save them, untouched.  If by chance you get something in a format you can't handle currently, hold on to it with the hope that you'll be able to handle it in the future (that is, your software will be able to handle it).

Know what titles you're looking for.  Be systematic and organized (and don't be afraid to interrupt a search to check what you've already found — no use in downloading something twice!).

And do check out BookGorilla (in the LINKS thingy to the right of the blog posts); lots of notifications of free books from Amazon every single day, just waiting to be 100% legitimately downloaded.  Don't miss out!  And get some just to have for Lendle, so you have something (free, for you) to lend!

Don't buy stuff unless you have to!

Another Day in Ebook Land

Mmmm, borrowed another seven books from the library.  And gained some experience in converting an obnoxious format, Topaz ( .TPZ ), into Mobi ( .mobi ); fortunately Calibre (that free life-saver of a program) can deal better with Topaz now, after a recent update.  Calibre also lets you tweak a Table Of Contents when it's making a .AZW3 file, but not without the occasional problem.  (And there's now a link to Calibre in the list to the right.)

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Also, a recent public domain collection (as a .azw3 file):
[from the Amazon description:]

Fitzgerald Collection [Kindle Edition]

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Zelda Fitzgerald (Author), Mary Evans (Editor)

Includes 7 Classic Books in One!  (And it's worth it just for THE GREAT GATSBY alone!)

-- Novels --
- This Side of Paradise, 1920 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- The Beautiful and Damned, 1922 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- The Great Gatsby, 1925 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Save Me the Waltz, 1932 (Zelda Fitzgerald)
- Tender Is the Night, 1933 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

--Stories--
- Flappers and Philosophers, 1921 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Tales of the Jazz Age, 1922 (F. Scott Fitzgerald) — including stories like 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Assembled from various public domain sources on the internet and formatted for Kindle.

• Each book has a working Table of Contents

http://www60.zippyshare.com/v/38809754/file.html

[Just click on the "Download Now" button, and ignore any advertisements or pop-up windows]

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Happy reading!

Welcome!

Hello, ebook seeker.  Do you own books on paper and wish you had them on your computer or ebook reader too (without having to pay for something you already own)?  Don't you think you're entitled to that?  This is a community that thinks you are.

So here we'll post URL listings as we find them.  If you know of any not mentioned here, please feel free to mention them in a comment to a post.

• here's a lovely site with various PDF, Epub, Kindle,  & HTML:  http://floatingworldweb.com/@EBOOKS/

• try Lendle for lending & borrowing Kindle books:  http://lendle.me/

And don't forget your local library system for borrowing ebooks!

Enjoy!