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Fawbish
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PostPosted: 10:48 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Free E-Books? Reply with quote
Got a HTC HD2 (biggest screen bar the iPad Laughing 4.3")

Wanna get hold of an e-reader app.

And get some e-books, preferably free.

Any recommendations of where has a good choice?
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PostPosted: 10:51 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
The two android apps I know of are Aldiko and Amazon Kindle. They both have some free books but you have to pay for decent ones.
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PostPosted: 10:59 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
How about this?
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PostPosted: 11:06 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like Project Gutenberg for free reading.
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PostPosted: 12:39 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cheers guys


Monkeyknuckle, its not android - thats the Desire (which is practically the same phone...but with android, and better. damn it.)
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PostPosted: 12:41 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ah I see, is yours one of the Windows Mobile ones?
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PostPosted: 13:41 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
It is mate. Whilst not entirely terrible (for my uses) I suspect I'd be more impressed with an iPhone/Desire - but ah well, I made my choice and I'll lie with it!
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PostPosted: 14:44 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
I know what you mean, I have the HTC touch pro 2 as a work phone and its just too laggy!
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PostPosted: 15:07 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
locked wrote:
I know what you mean, I have the HTC touch pro 2 as a work phone and its just too laggy!

I've got one and never found mine to be laggy.

I did some research a while ago and don't think I found anything that great for free for reading ebooks.
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PostPosted: 17:36 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Got some torrents:

Baen Library
https://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/2232827/Baen-Science-Fiction-Library

Bookpusher
https://www.monova.org/details/3199231/BOOKPUSHER'S%202500%20EBOOKS.html

SF Fantasy Library
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4459233/SF_Fantasy_Library

Novels Collection
https://www.btmon.com/Other/E-books/Novels.Collection.grez868.torrent.html

They're mainly sci fi and fantasy, especially recommend John Ringo, David Weber, Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Lois McMaster Bujold, Iain M Banks, Neal Asher, Terry Pratchett, Ken Macleod, Trudi Canavan, Raymond E Feist.

I like reading on my pc for some reason... Also, never found better e-reader software than MS Reader, and can't get it to work through WINE so stuck with Windows alas...


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PostPosted: 21:07 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
MonkeyKnuckle wrote:
The two android apps I know of are Aldiko and Amazon Kindle. They both have some free books but you have to pay for decent ones.


I use Aldiko a lot. A lot. Pay for decent ones? I may be easily amused but it's going to take me a while to work through the free stuff, any book store that has the John Carter stories for free is worth worshipping Very Happy

Fawbles, sorry to say that I never really found a decent e-reader on winmo (my last few phones were all winmo).
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PostPosted: 22:13 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tarmacsurfer wrote:
MonkeyKnuckle wrote:
The two android apps I know of are Aldiko and Amazon Kindle. They both have some free books but you have to pay for decent ones.


I use Aldiko a lot. A lot. Pay for decent ones? I may be easily amused but it's going to take me a while to work through the free stuff, any book store that has the John Carter stories for free is worth worshipping Very Happy



To be honest I only had a quick look through the selection. The app doesn't work properly on my HTC Wildfire, the pages are cut off etc.
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PostPosted: 22:42 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
G wrote:
locked wrote:
I know what you mean, I have the HTC touch pro 2 as a work phone and its just too laggy!

I've got one and never found mine to be laggy.

I did some research a while ago and don't think I found anything that great for free for reading ebooks.


sorry G I am just not a fan of this phone. Emails are great but when I want to surf the web, its not functional at times. It gets really laggy and locks up compared to my Nokia E71.
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PostPosted: 23:13 - 19 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Which browser are you using to surf? I've not had a problem myself really, though haven't used many other recent 'smart phones'.
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