Recommendations for places to get public domain and less-expensive e-books or recommendations for books per se?
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Ginger - Jan 19, 2010 11:38:50 am PST #12386 of 25501
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Steph L. - Jan 19, 2010 12:42:15 pm PST #12387 of 25501
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Anyone heard of PDFmyURL.com?
The need for that befuddled me for a minute, because I'm one of Those Intolerable Mac Users, and I can make anything into a PDF, out of any program, via the print function. It's so amazingly useful.
Typo Boy - Jan 19, 2010 1:00:43 pm PST #12388 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The same on my XP box, either via one paid piece of software, and several free pieces of software all of which add "print to pdf" as additional printers. However what would genuinely be useful to be is something that rather than printing a web page or sending it to a pdf, would capture a web site - including urls linked on the web page, and then urls linked on those urls. That would be tricky to write. The software would have to avoid including pages that are on other servers, since these are probably external links. (Maybe it would have to have the option of choosing external servers that are OK.) Also it would have avoid getting caught in endless loops by not capturing a page more than once. Umm and I'm not sure such a server would deal with dynamic content. Probably can be done. Heck, maybe I should google and see if it has BEEN done.
§ ita § - Jan 19, 2010 1:08:14 pm PST #12389 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Probably can be done.
Adobe Acrobat Professional does it.
Typo Boy - Jan 19, 2010 1:10:10 pm PST #12390 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
As, after doing does Teleport Pro, and a bunch of software on the web. It looks like one should ask permission before using any of these though, because apparently downloading an entire website causes a spike in traffic.
§ ita § - Jan 19, 2010 1:11:00 pm PST #12391 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
apparently downloading an entire website causes a spike in traffic
Stands to reason.
Fred Pete - Jan 20, 2010 5:25:38 am PST #12392 of 25501
Ann, that's a ferret.
Recommendations for places to get public domain and less-expensive e-books or recommendations for books per se?
Apologies for the delay -- I posted just before leaving the office. She's looking for places to get public domain books.
le nubian - Jan 20, 2010 6:42:39 am PST #12393 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Fred Pete,
I think your suggestions are the best places to start. I have a Kindle, and there are quite a few good Kindle specific blogs that also list free Kindle books.
Your friend may want to spend a bit of time with google to look for Nook specific blogs. I am pissed, btw, that ebooks I purchased at B&N can't be read on the Kindle. These bookstores need to get together and let me read the content on multiple devices. It is such an unnecessary pain in the ass.
Fred Pete - Jan 20, 2010 7:09:40 am PST #12394 of 25501
Ann, that's a ferret.
Thanks, le nubian. I"ll pass word on.
I understand Apple is coming out with an e-reader soon. I'll probably get myself an e-reader as a Christmas present. (My deadline is early next March -- I want to load it up before a major vacation.)
le nubian - Jan 20, 2010 8:06:14 am PST #12395 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Do you think Apple's announcement will be an ereader? I think it will be a device that does a whole lot of things.