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You're welcome scarytaff - thanks for stopping by :)
Hello, Susana, and I read with interest you hub. As much as we would to safe but will it be for the writers? Will they in future write non-stop for nothing. I am sorry but writers work extremely hard and a book wants to be written. I am sorry and hate to be negative but I don't think it is fair on the writers. Thank you for a very interesting hub and advice non-the-less.
Hi Hello Hello - I understand your point of view but I think you're misunderstanding the concept - for recently written books it's up to the writer themselves if they want to share their work for free, so no one is being taken advantage of.
The vast majority of the writers of the books available for free download at the Gutneberg Project have been written by long dead writers and the only people that still make money from them are publishing houses. All of the ebooks are also in the "public domain" in the US, which means the copyright has expired. Books don't go into the public domain until 50 years after they were published. In my view it's an extremely ethical way of sharing knowledge.
Anyhow, I do appreciate your comments as always :)
I am sharing this RIGHT NOW! Thank you for bringing this to our attention, I can't wait to try it.
Thanks Rope - enjoy :)
Thanks for the nice hub. I recently found ebooks off of stumbleupon, I don't know if they are the same ones, since I don't know stumbleupon well yet.
There is something very comforting about holding a real paper book. But the scads of books I have are heavy and *hard to move*.
I might be interested in the Kindle device at some point, but only when the price comes down. Hard times here, y'know?
Yep - I do know, lol :) You can download free ebook readers to use on your PC if money's tight.
thanks for this hub! you have written up some good name of books that i love those and have read those too, cool work!
Hi Susana - A very useful article. I have used Gutenberg for many years now, and it is getting better and better. Used to be that "all" a person could get there were scanned copies of books, papers, etc. in plain ASCII text. More recently there are plenty of works in HTML which,of course, allows downloading of illustrations,and more. We "translated" a number of Gutenberg files into PDF format so you can download some of them as E-books. Check out the download books section of http://www.sampsonafb.com. Some big books and some tiny books. For free as noted.
Gus :-)))
Hy Susana, I have also been a longtime fan of Gutenberg, it's got a huge array of books on lots of subjects, I even have some of the ones you listed here. The poetry collection is good too. And all free! Thanks for spreading the Gospel about this site (I briefly mentioned it in my software hub - but yours is more detailed!!!) - and congrats on being viewed over 100,000 times by people here! You rock!!!
Susana - was not too sure about the whole ebook thing, but this Project Gutenberg is fantastic. I am not a believer. (Am linking to this)
My personal pro and con for e-readers.
Pro - If you find a book you want and just HAVE to have while doing research on books at 11 o clock at night, and you can't wait for shipping, you can download said book.
Con - digital media is unreliable. Files become corrupted, computers get lost, electronics get damaged, and suddenly all the money you've spent on the eReader and those books are gone.
However, Project Gutenberg might make it worth it...
I was happy to find this hub and its information. Going to share it with some friends who enjoy reading. Thank you.
as bookbinder Im dismayed.
A great hub about a wonderful resource. "Lear out Loud" is also a great resource which provides the same service for audio books though they do also sell some books.This might be an idea for your next hub. Great stuff. Thank you.
scarytaff Level 4 Commenter 2 years ago
Thanks for the information, Susana S. I'm going straight scross to this site.