REB1200 for Dummies
eBook sources
downloadable .imp files
Which format do i select when buying a book as all of them need to be converted anyway?
If you're buying encrypted books, the only ones that can be converted are MS Reader (LIT) format. Learning to handle them can be a bit tricky - you need a registered copy of MS Reader on your computer to be able to download your purchases, then ConvertLit to disassemble them, then probably something like SoftSnow's FileMerger to reassemble the multiple HTML files.
If you're looking at unencrypted books, REBLib will handle HTML, RTF, TXT and possibly some other open formats. Avoid Adobe Acrobat Reader, MobiPocket and eReader files, which don't convert well if at all.
Web sites that have books that can be converted and then loaded onto your REB1200 updated 2/15/2005
Contains a database of URLs to sites with free content
Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books. There are over 6000 free books available.
Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
We may not have the word "ebook" in our domain name, but since 1999, we've been providing the ebook community with an independent source of helpful resources as well as providing education to those who want to know more about what ebooks are and how they can benefit from them. To that end, we offer ebook reviews, industry news, a huge directory of ebook listings, a great library (lending ebooks, of course) and much more.
Fictionwise.com is committed to providing the Internet's most comprehensive collection of fiction (and yes nonfiction too!) in the most popular eBook formats. Probably the largest collection of ebooks on the net. Free eBooks section Fictionwise sells unencrypted, multiformat books in the REB1200's IMP format - look for the "OEBFF Full VGA (IMP)" choice on the "Choose Download Format" list. (The "OEBFF Half VGA (IMP)" format will work too, but it's black-and-white, not coloured.)
Phoenix-Library $ and some free books
Jolie Howard Fiction "http://ljbinkley.tripod.com/"
"http://scheherazadetales.com/" Scheherazade Tales -- The best bargain in romance ebooks on the Internet
Alexandria Digital Literature: ebookstore Alexlit.com & Tale.com
Belgrave House Fiction "http://www.belgravehouse.com/"
Belgrave House reissues as ebooks popular fiction--Regency and contemporary romance, women's fiction, mysteries, romantic suspense--that has gone "out-of-print."
A Yahoo ebook trading group to join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebooklove and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalbooks
USENET newsgroups
Download some of the books on USENET RePlayer
or (teranews.com allows "free" reading/posting).
Names of USENET e-books groups
alt.binaries.e-book
alt.binaries.e-book.christian
alt.binaries.e-book.d
alt.binaries.e-book.fantasy
alt.binaries.e-book.flood
alt.binaries.e-book.german
alt.binaries.e-book.mathmad
alt.binaries.e-book.palm
alt.binaries.e-book.pl
alt.binaries.e-book.rpg
alt.binaries.e-book.technical
alt.binaries.e-book.windowsce
alt.binaries.e-books
alt.binaries.e-books.d
alt.binaries.e-books.flood
alt.binaries.e-books.medical
alt.binaries.e-books.palm
alt.binaries.e-books.rpg
alt.binaries.e-books.technical
thelinq.e-books
Links to USENET via the web
http://www.usenet-replayer.com/groups/alt.binaries.e-books.html
http://www.newzbin.com/browse/group/p/alt.binaries.e-books/
http://www.news2mail.com/alt/binaries/e-books.html
Content sites
Free Content sites
| site | formats offered | browse by | notes |
| Project Gutenberg hosted by ibiblio | .txt | Title, Author, or search | same contents as the official site , but with a MUCH BETTER interface |
| MemoWare | .txt, .doc, .lit, .pdf, .prc, .pdb, others | Subject or search | also one of the biggest free content sites |
| Free eLiterature | .html, .lit, .prc | Subject (from the green bar on top) | selected popular titles from Project Gutenberg. |
| Microsoft free eBooks | .lit | Subject or Search by Title, Author, Keyword or ISBN | collection of free .lit 's |
| Virginia eText Center | .html, .lit, .pdb | Subject, Author, or search | thousands of contents |
| Virginia Web eText Center | .html | Language (on the left side) | thousands more contents in other languages, many have BOTH the foriegn language and the translation |
| Blackmask | .rb, .lit, .pdf, .prc, .pdb | Subject or search | thousands of ebooks |
Purchase Content sites
| eBooks.com | .lit, .pdf, prc, pdb | Subject or Search by Title, Author, Keyword or ISBN | none |
| Amazon eBooks | .lit, .pdf | Subject or Search by Title, Author, Keyword or ISBN | click on "BOOKS", then "E-BOOKS & DOCS" |
| Yahoo eBooks | .lit, .pdf, .prc, .pdb | Subject or Search by Title, Author, Keyword or ISBN | none |
| eBooksLib | .imp, .rb, .lit .pdf, .prc, .pdb, | Title, Author, Language, and Subject | has contents in other languages |
| ceBooks | not important | not important | has updated links (on the left side) to their pick of top 10 ebook content sites including fictionWise , their 1st pick |
| ebookwise.com | .rb and .imp |
Online textbooks
You're in luck if your $100+ textbook is available online. And if it's available online, the chances are that you have a pretty good chance of finding it in here.
| Internet Public Library | .html, .pdf | Subject or Search by Title, Author, or Subject |
| The Online Books Page | .html, .pdf | Subject or Search by Title, Author, or Subject |
| FreeTechBooks (mostly Computer Science) | .html, .doc, .pdf | Subject |
Others:
And of course, there are numerous specific content sites such as news, articles, journals, etc. (which you probably are more familiar than I am) that you can download or save from the browser by just doing FILE | SAVE AS, then convert it into REB1200 format.