How to find e-books |
Everything seems to point towards the second decade of the twenty-first century seeing the definitive expansion of e-books and their popularisation. The arrival of electronic ink e-book readers, led by Amazon's Kindle, has been an extraordinary aid to their dissemination, and the growing demand for e-book readers and for digital versions of the books that can be found in bookshops, along with the changes occurring in the publishing world, lead to this prediction. |
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The most widely-used e-book formats include: .EPUB, .PRC (Mobipocket), .PDF, AZW (Kindle), .LIT (Microsoft), .HTML, .TXT and .DOC. Despite this, if you acquire a work published in a different standard from the one that a specific e-book reader can read, you can always use one of the format conversion programs that you'll find on the internet, such as Calibre (open-source software) or ABC Amber ePub converter. |
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In any event, e-books are increasingly entering the bibliographic collections of libraries, now making up a considerable part and growing constantly. As in the case of books on paper, e-books can also be loaned, an option that appears to be gaining more supporters every day as users acquire devices for reading e-books. |
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Once you know the file formats that your device can read, you can access any of the many websites where you can find e-books to download, be it free or paying. |
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Some of the most popular free e-book download websites are Digital Book Index, Project Gutenberg, The Online Books Page and, in Spain, LIBROdot.com and Elaleph. |
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