online library

[Skipman]

Does anyone know of a website,where one can download a book,in the same way as perhaps you can download tunes from iTunes.Then for a decent fee,one could read any online book,with say a ww1 section.Has it been done,can it be done,and if not ,why hasn't it been done?

[Pighills]

Sony do their own version of an electronic reader.

You download books and read them off the memory.

Google Sony Ereader.

[Skipman]

Thanks Kim will check it out.

[Kate Wills]

have you tried Project Gutenberg and Google Books?

[Skipman]

I have haven't yet,but i will now thanks.

[NigelS]

Another site worth having a look at: http://www.archive.org/index.php

NigelS

[Guest geoff501]

Sony do their own version of an electronic reader.

You download books and read them off the memory.

Google Sony Ereader.

I think this will be very big in the future, sell books without trees. They need to sort out the DRM thingy though, without annoying the consumer.

Here is a demo video:

http://www.plasticlogic.com/

[Rob Connolly]

There's also

http://www.vlib.us/

which has a WW1 section, and is free.

[laughton]

The SONY READER also accepts any book that is in PDF version so there are hundreds if not thousands.

The Internet Archives is a great source. The CEFSG members try to upload all of our own "out of copyright" books to that site and we are now uploading nominal rolls.

You can also go to the federal DND site and download most of the major texts. I have done that and it is great.

But you have to read them on your computer or cough up $300 Canadian for the SONY READER.