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 Posted: Fri, 13th Mar 2009 05:43 Post subject: Is there something like an Ebook scene? |
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I have to admit i havent read many books in my life, mostly cause as a schookid we had to read tedious romantic novels etc....
But i am very interested about biographies, mostly about guys in the army and what they have been through, or about spies in the cold war etc.
So i watched the daily show on a regular basis, and its a great way to stumble upon new releases of books, the books are high profile releases as they are usually in the top 10 of best selling books on Amazon.
Now before a mod thinks he has a chance to ban me, im not asking for where or how.
But i wondered is there a scene? are there official release of those books in pdf format?
I have searched countless forums , torrents .... that im wondering if it even excists.
I guess ppl cant be bothered to scan big books to convert them into pdfs, but i stumbled upon many sites that upon payment would email you the book in pdf( legal), so is no one bothering to share those pdfs ?
What about this new kindle hype, every amazon book has a kindle version too, are there kindle viewers for the PC? are those kindle Ebooks shared for free?
Even the audio book versions which are fairly easy to rip are nowhere to be found...
So i left wondering is there zero interest in any book on the internet? cause there are 88754254 ebooks on how to hack and how to cook pizza.
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| Posted: Fri, 13th Mar 2009 05:53 Post subject: |
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There are some places... One problem is the lack of standardized format (PDF is fucking shit for ebooks), and there's really no 'scene' like there's for other stuff, per se.
Afaik with Kindle you're pretty much stuck with buying from Amazon, but Sony Reader for example supports more formats so you can find a lot more free books for it. Mind you, there's differences with commercial ebooks and pirated ones - practically all of them are done with OCR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) so they usually lack proper formatting, page breaks etc.. Also on some older ebooks there's lots of typos because of the OCR errors, but that's rarer these days, and usually easily fixed by running it through a spell-checker.
www.mobileread.com if you're interested in dedicated reader devices, also has lots of links to free legal ebooks.
Edit: Noo there goes my 1337 posts.
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| Posted: Fri, 13th Mar 2009 09:34 Post subject: |
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yeah, there are enough scene groups who do ebooks...LiB, DDU, EEn to name a few, but i think most of them specialize in textbooks (mostly computer tech/multimedia stuff from what i've seen).
if you want a certain book, go and buy it...even though you can find most books anyway in pdf, it's a fucking hassle imho to read anything over 50 pages on the pc.
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| Posted: Fri, 13th Mar 2009 12:25 Post subject: |
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| inz wrote: | | There are some places... One problem is the lack of standardized format (PDF is fucking shit for ebooks), and there's really no 'scene' like there's for other stuff, per se. . |
Woot? I love the pft format.
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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