[Leica] Project Gutenberg

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Just out of interest, I visited the Gutenberg site.  It prompted me to 
charge up my aged Palm TX, which was languishing in a drawer in our 
study.  As I was feeling adventurous I decided to try syncing the TX 
with my Ubuntu workstation and after a little tweaking, I was able to 
get the TX to talk to the workstation.

I downloaded a copy of Moby Dick and within about 30 minutes had worked 
out how to convert the file to the correct format for the Palm Reader 
software.  Actually loading the book onto the palm took a bit longer, 
but as usual, mr Google was a great help.

Now I can read Moby Dick at my leisure.  The cost to me was a bit of 
time.  Whilst I'm sure the Kindle or an I-Pad would look nicer and have 
a bigger screen, I think the Palm TX could well have a new lease of life.

Don't you just love (oldish) technology! :-)

One thing that did interest me was the offshoot that converts books to 
audio format.  I have a friend who's son has learning difficulties which 
mean he can't read well, but he loves audio books - being able to 
download audiobooks in mp3 format could be a real boon for him.  So I'm 
very grateful for this thread.

Best wishes

Mark



Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK

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Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
> My ISP keeps screwing up URL listings. Let's try again. In case anyone 
> wants
> access to Project Gutenberg's 30,000 public domain books, including all the
> great classics, the correct URL is:
> www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
> 
> Anyone who has an e-book reader on their computer, laptop, PDA, iPhone, 
> etc.
> should take advantage of this resource. The books are generally in ascii
> format and can be read by just about every word processing or text program.
> They take up very little memory space. Unless you want the latest novel
> there is no need to pay Kindle's $9.95 fee for light reading at the beach 
> or
> on a commuter train.
> 
> Larry Z
> 
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