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E-Books: A New Way to Enjoy Reading

Friday, November 7, 2008

I HAVE a new hobby now. Aside from collecting books, I am now starting to collect e-books. My shelves are already piling up, so it’s about time to save space.

This started when Cors sent me e-books. I did not have time to read them because I was too busy and I can’t always take the laptop anywhere . But I jut couldn’t resist reading those e-books of the hype that goes around about the books. 

Read Maniac, a java application, helped solve my problem. I am now bringing along the e-books wherever I go. I just converted the e-books (originally in pdf) to html files, which Read Maniac can read. Whenever I’m travelling or in a long queue, I just take out my phone and listen to Stephanie Meyer and her Vamp stories.

However, there are some drawbacks. I have to keep scolling because my phone can only accommodate at most 11 lines of text. So I had to read about 6 thousand pages of text. But that’s fine with me. And of course, it doesn’t have the nostalgic aroma of paper and ink.

For those who can’t put down a book even while on the go, you can dowload e-books here:

Have fun reading!



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Posted by aclworld at 11:24 am | permalink

Previous Comments

Thanks, I hadn’t heard of Read Maniac before… It looks interesting (current home http://sourceforge.net/projects/readmaniac).

You might also be interested in dailyreader (http://www.dailyreader.net). They’re sort of e-books, except that they send out books to your email in small installments. So if your phone has email access, you could then read that way as well.

Posted by JMC at November 12, 2008, 11:34 pm

Thanks, JMC. Sure, I’m checkin’ out daily reader.net

Posted by aclworld at November 14, 2008, 8:49 am

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