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Ebooks

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

I'm a big fan of the idea of ebooks... Saving all that paper, reducing distribution emissions and having books available instantly... So when I decided to read the book 'Cradle to Cradle' by William McDonough I set out to find it in ebook form... This turned out to be much more complicated than I originally anticipated. While it was available via the Sony ebook distribution system (and other 'US only' sites) it was only available for Windows... Not Mac! An onslaught of emails ensued between myself and the Sony ebook technical support but they refused to admit that they should have a mac copy available... Obviously after my barrage I couldn't purchase from them... so in the end I chose the option of a secondhand copy from ebay rather than to admit defeat of the mac... (as an aside the mac could have handled it but it's the principle of it all!)...

In my travels however, I did find:

• Free romance novel ebooks
• Free Australian History Magazines
• Free classics
• Very artistic looking ebooks illustrated by Ron Sanders
• Public domain ebooks listed by academic institutions

All of which are actually legal... In the end I chose Moby Dick (shameful I haven't read it already, I know!), which turned out to be quite good! (And now I finally understand all those references Scully used to make to it in the Xfiles)...

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