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Free eBooks and AudioBooks for Mobile Computers

Do you want to read free eBooks and eTexts? Free as in freedom? Many of them are published under a free license, e.g. Creative Commons, GPL. Here you may find some links to free eBooks, which you may read on your Linux PDA, Linux TabletPC or Linux laptop or some eBook reader. Not much yet but I hope it works as a start. There are links to tips, tricks and HOWTOs for format conversions between different eBook formats, too.




Free eBooks and eTexts

Free AudioBooks

Free eBook Readers

Plucker is an offline web and eBook viewer for Palm OS(tm) based handheld devices and PDAs that comes with Unix, Linux tools and conduits, and Windows and Mac OSX conduits that let you decide exactly what part of the web that you want to view on your PDA.

JPluck converts web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading using the Plucker Viewer for Palm OS devices or the Opie-Reader for the SHARP Zaurus PDA . With JPluck on your desktop and the reader on your handheld you can carry the web in the palm of your hand! JPluck is a Java application and runs on all platforms where Java 1.4.1 is available: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

OpieReader is a port to the Zaurus PDA of TWReader an EText reader for the Agenda PDA. Plucker format is especially nice to view via OpieReader and has a lot of tool support including AvantGo-like offline webbrowsing capabilities which are fully supported by OpieReader.

REBComm is a commandline program for GNU/Linux that lets the user upload and download files from the RCA eBook REB1100 reader device through a USB connection. It aims to provide much of the same functionality as the eBook Librarian software in Windows. It can be used to send user-generated content to the device.

DocReader by Chris Wong is an eBook reader (for Palm DOC format) and more. There is a port for the SHARP Zaurus available.

JustReader is just another reader for Linux PDAs.

At the Weasel reader page you find also a detailed survey of text conversion tools.

GutenFlash is a streaming text reader, based on the concept of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. The idea is to display a few words at a time, very quickly, in a very large font. Playback speed ranges from 20 to 2000 words per minute, including extra pauses to accommodate punctuation.

kio_reb is a KIO Slave providing access to Nuvomedia's Rocket eBook.

FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia 770/N800 Internet Tablet, Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780/A1200 smartphones, PepperPad 3, Asus Eee PC, IRex iLiad, UMPC, and Linux/Windows XP/FreeBSD desktop computers. It supports several e-book formats: plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, CHM, fb2, TCR (psion text), OEB, OpenReader, RTF, non-DRM'ed Mobipocket, and plain text.

Project Gutenberg supplies a large number of free electronic texts. The JBook project lets users retrieve, read, and bookmark electronic texts, primarily from Project Gutenberg but eventually from other sources.

PDFRead is a tool for converting PDF and DJVU documents for reading on eBook devices. It does this by creating an image out of each page, enhancing the image, and then collating the images in a device-specific format.

Free AudioBook Readers

k a b o o k

k a b o o k KDE Audiobook mp3 player. GUI mode and console mode for dyslectic, blind and visually impaired. Festival text to speech reads index links to the mp3. Take notes when paused and read them with festival TTS Audio Education, Manage Streaming Recordings, edit MP3.

Freedaisy

Freedaisy is a free implementation of Daisy book standard for allowing MP3 files to be indexed using (X)HTML and SMIL. Daisy is frequently used by visually impaired users, so they can listen to audio books with chapters.

Free Java eBook Tools

Mobile Bookshelf

Mobile Bookshelf converts text files to MIDlets (Java programs that can be run on mobile phone), making it possible to read your favourite books on your handset.

Tequilacat Book Reader

Tequilacat book reader is a free Java midlet allowing to read books on any Java enabled mobile phone or PDA. See this page for links to other free book readers, too.

ReadManiac

ReadManiac is a midlet that lets you read large text files on the Siemens SL45i, SL42i, S55, S57, M50, M55, C55, C60, MC60, SL55, CF62, M65, S65, SL65, C65, C65V/CV65 and CX65 phones, Nokia series 40 and series 60 phones, and practically all other JAVA-enabled phones. Midlet has dedicated search engine for searching books in internet. Midlet download these books directly to phone's memory. Once installed, it becomes library in the pocket. See this page for many links to other free book readers, too.

RSS Reader MIDlet

RSS Reader MIDlet is an RSS feed reader for handhelds that can run Java MIDlets. It uses RMS (persistent storage) for offline reading. It is MIDP 1.0 CLDC 1.0 compliant and requires about 256kb memory to work well.

eKitaab

eKitaab is an eBook Catalog Manager to manage large collections of ebooks. eKitaab is not an eBook reader. eKitaab displays a list of all books you have, with their titles, authors, descriptions, and photos of the book covers. It also shows if you have read that book before or not. eKitaab downloads all this information from the Internet, based on the ISBN of the book, or by searching by author or title.

ZhuaShuShell

ZhuaShuShell is a set of scripts to crawl a collection of online e-books (in HTML format) from certain Chinese e-book sites and save the data to your local machine formatted as a single text book.

WordFlashReader

WordFlashReader is a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) program useful to anyone who has an electronic text or book they wish to read. This program works with text files, HTML files, and PDF files. WordFlashReader works by flashing each word of the text sequentially on the screen (pausing for punctuation). Not only is this way of reading off of a computer screen more comfortable on the eyes than the normal method, but also after a little practice you may discover that you can read at multiple times the speed you normally do.

HOWTOs

How to scan a book?

See this instructions .

doc2palm

How to convert documents under Linux to read them as eBook on the Palm Pilot PDA (in German).

eBook Readers (Hardware)

Amazon Kindle NEW  Linux 
Sony PRS-505 NEW  Linux 

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Resources

  • CreativeCommons
  • The American Foundation for the Blind - AFB offers a white paper about eBooks.
  • Newsgroup for Palm e-Books: news:alt.binaries.e-book.palm . But there are not as many choices as there are for .LIT and .PDF e-Books.
  • The Assayer is a site for user-contributed book reviews, with a special focus on reviewing free books. It also functions as a catalog of free books.

Other Free Media For Mobile Computers


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