[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

H/T to HardOCP .

[Paine in the Neck]

I was thinking of getting one of these readers. Do any FReepers have experience and opinions on which is best?

[Paine in the Neck]

I was thinking of getting one of these readers. Do any FReepers have experience and opinions on which is best?

[ShadowAce]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[snip] Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.’s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday. It’s the first time Google has made its vast trove of scanned public-domain books available to an e-book device, and vaults the Sony Reader past Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle as the device with the largest available library, at about 600,000 books. [end]

related resources:

free audiobooks from the public domain (volunteer to record one)
http://librivox.org/

WorldCat Find a Copy of a Book
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Paul Lutus’ book on his solo circumnavigation is a free d/l at his website, also available as a commercial paperback. An acquaintance told me tonight that he was reading it, and dreams of doing the same thing.

Confessions of a Long-Distance sailor
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html
http://www.arachnoid.com/sailbook/confessions.zip

[wildbill]

We’ll now see a battle for ebook hardware supremacy.

Sony has to remember how it got its ass handed to it in the old Betamax vs. VHS format wars. The key was the number of movies and other content available for the VCR hardware format and the VHS format waxed them.

If Amazon can’t come up with a partner like Google for all these books, they are in trouble with the Kindle.

[wildbill]

What is the availability of new fiction that normally goes to paperbacks and how much does it cost.

I’m buying pre-owned books at the library for $1.00-.50.

[Radix]

"..The scanned books were all published before 1923, and include works like Charles Dickens'"A Tale of Two Cities" as well as nonfiction classics like Herodotus'"The Histories."

I'm curious about the 1923 date. Does it refer to a certain legislation, or is it something else?