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Note: All the downloads are in Microsoft Reader format. The software only runs on Windows machines at the moment (sorry). Mac guys like me have to run Virtual PC which works just fine. To download on a Windows machine, right-click on the title. For Macs running Virtual PC, control-click title.
If you don't have Microsoft Reader, you can download it for free. You can also create your own eBooks with free software from ReaderWorks. See buttons near the bottom of the page.
[Addendum of 12/21/00: The links here are to free stuff. Someone emailed me today asking if I was rich yet from ebook downloads. Ha ha! This is free stuff. If I knew how to debit your credit card without your explicit approval, I'd be poolside in Rio right now. Okay, gotta go, the poolgirl is coming...]
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posted 2/10/02
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Info about Immortal Khan, and Living Midnight. |
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posted 12/01/01
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Here's an essay for this Holiday Season. Yet another geeky cybertopic essay, but like everything I write, entertaining even for granny and the kids. The essay contains links to a few sites with zillions of free ebooks. So c'mon. |
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posted 4/28/01
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Click the title above and download an excerpt from my "word movie" Immortal Khan published by Scorpius Digital. You can also see my Self-Serving Promo page for more info on Khan. |
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posted 3/18/01
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Here's a link to a free ebook (in Microsoft Reader format) by Bill Hill, the main develper of Microsoft Reader. A great read about what words, language, and reading are about. Really gorgeous IMHO. |
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posted 2/19/01
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Although Microsoft Reader is superb at presenting text, it generally isn't very good at handling graphics. What a difference effort and expertise makes, though. This is the Scorpius Digital multi-page Holiday Greeting Card. I'm posting this as an example. I got it because I'm on their very special mailing list (although, I bet you can get one next year if send them an email). |
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posted 12/16/00
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This eBooklet (113KB) is a collection of Not Honolulu Weekly columns published in the Honolulu Weekly in the Year of The Dragon (2000 A.D.). It also contains unpublished material written by myself and others, such as the "Writers Respond" collection below. These writings are also posted as a web page at my Rants, Screeds, and Essays page. |
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The November 22, 2000 issue of The Honolulu Weekly ran a book review of "Inside Out" entitled "Ground Zero" by Nancie Caraway. This ePamphlet collects some of the responses to that review. This is also posted as a web page from my Critical Response page. |
eBook Links for Free downloads
When you download Microsoft Reader, it'll ask you if you want to "activate" Reader. You only have to activate if you will be downloading and reading commercial stuff. By activating, you of course get sucked into the Evil Empire by having to sign up for a "Passport Account" etc. But you don't have to. Here are links to some free stuff.
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Jerry Justianto's Pocket PC eBooks Watch. Daily news, commentary, links, and very entertaining weekly polls. Ken Mattern's ESSPC-eBooks. No profit motive here, just free ebooks. David Moynihan's BlackMask. About a bazillion free ebooks here. |
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posted 12/18/00
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These guys make eBooks commercially, but they have a page full of very cool free stuff as showcases for their work. All works are in the public domain, so don't go there hoping for current best sellers. But, since it's a showcase, the stuff is formatted very well. In fact, it's nothing less than a glorious example of the art of ePublishing. Listed here are Kakuzo's "Book of Tea", "The Rubaiyat" of Omar Kayyam, Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" and other good stuff. Try Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary." |
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posted 12/18/00
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The oldest and largest electronic text center on the Internet. 1,000,000 download deliveries as of December 2000. Full text search of all 1,200 eBooks. The freebies are generally public domain texts, and sometimes formatted a little funky, but this is a great resource. Universities are SUPPOSED to be access hubs to information, right? Right? Right...? |
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posted 12/18/00
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Download a very well executed collection of the last seven days of Slate. Also links to free Slate eBooks. |
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More links coming up. If you know of any, email me at DougWords@hawaii.rr.com |
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