Free E-Book source for Nexus 7 ?

Free E-Book source for Nexus 7 ?

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Original Poster:

470 posts

212 months

Friday 4th January 2013
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One of the kids has a Kindle which we can get loads of free books for, whether for him or an adult. SWIMBO has a Nexus 7 but is struggling to find a source of free e-books - any suggestions from the PH massiv please?

marshalla

15,902 posts

208 months

Friday 4th January 2013
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Kindle and/or Kobo apps on Android + Calibre converter software + Google = more books than you can read in several lifetimes.

FlossyThePig

4,099 posts

250 months

Saturday 5th January 2013
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Project Gutenberg ("the first producer of free ebooks") has been around for a few years now.

bigandclever

13,944 posts

245 months

Saturday 5th January 2013
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jas xjr

11,309 posts

246 months

Saturday 5th January 2013
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Thanks for that . Very easy to use

FiF

45,528 posts

258 months

Monday 7th January 2013
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I know this is a bit old fashioned, but have you considered your library?

You're in Staffs, yes? Their e-book faqs Staffs link

Certainly Worcester's service works very well and supports the Nexus 7 on Adobe Digital Editions.

Staffs recommend Aldiko

Not sure if Staffs is the same, but now we have The Hive, combined Public and uni facilities, thus I also get access to the university catalogue. Slightly different lending rules but even so, very handy.

As little as 6 months ago the e reader catalogue in my favourite public section was very sparse, a list only 6 pages / screens long, it's now 23 edit 26 pages and more arriving every day.




Edited by FiF on Monday 7th January 23:07

FlossyThePig

4,099 posts

250 months

Tuesday 8th January 2013
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FiF said:
I know this is a bit old fashioned, but have you considered your library?
I didn't say before as I am feel I'm becoming a bit of a bore about it.

Since buying my Kobo all the books I read now come from Suffolk library. You can borrow three books (ePub format) at a time, reserve up to three as well. They also have a range of audiobooks as well.

FiF

45,528 posts

258 months

Tuesday 8th January 2013
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Agreed, I held off getting an e-reader for a long time due to two issues.

I didn't want a Kindle and of the rest, the best imho, the Nook was not yet available in UK. If I'd had to go the the USA then would probably have bought one before now but chance said I was stationed in Europe.

Second reason was the poor choice in public library catalogue, which as said above is improving by the day.

Worcs allows you to check out 6 epub, for up to 21 days, returned automatically on time, though, of course, one can return it early. Don't know how many reservations one can hold.

I've certainly discovered some new authors since I got my Nook, and instead of the stack of books I now only have one out, by Christpher Booker which isn't available in the e-catalogue yet.

joggy

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142 months

Wednesday 9th January 2013
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bigandclever said:
Thanks mate...long ago I used this site...thanks for reminding me of it again.