Amazon Kindle and Fedora

Dave Feustel dfeustel at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 23 02:15:10 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:36:31PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Robert L Cochran wrote:
> >   
> >> Please note: I am saying all the above after having downloaded only one
> >> free sample chapter of a Kindle-ized book, and I have never bought a
> >> Kindle Store book from Amazon.
> >>
> >>     
> > If you want to give it more of a test, go to Baen Free Library and
> > download some books in the Kindle format. They have a fair sample of
> > free books. They are complete books, but about half are the first
> > book in a series, to get you hooked on the author's work. (If you
> > liked the first one, and want more of the same.)
> >
> > They offer the same book in more then one format. So if you like the
> > book, but don't like reading it on the Kindle, you can read it on
> > other devices. If all else fails, you can always download the HTML
> > version. Best of all - no DRM!
> >
> > http://www.baen.com/library
> >
Check out http://www.online-literature.com for classic literature. I
just discovered this site and I don't know whether it can be easily
read on e-book readers.




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