More on e-books: Project Gutenberg and Barnes & Noble
Monday, August 10, 2009 14:20Posted in category Gadget News
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And while we’re on the subject, David Pogue has just done a thorough job of comparing Amazon’s and Barnes & Noble’s e-book services.
B&N won’t introduce a Kindle-like reading device until next year. Meantime you can not only read B&N books on your iPhone, you can read them on your computer–a first for commercial e-book services.
Of course, for many years that service has been available–free–from Project Gutenberg, always on my Top Ten list of ‘Net freebies. If you don’t always have your computer with you but do have a Palm PDA or Smartphone, there’s a free app, called plucker, for reading any of the thousands of free Gutenberg books. Get plucker versions of e-books from the Gutenberg site.
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