However, sometimes that is the only option. I was mainly looking for PDBs of the classics out of laziness: I did not want to have to convert existing files to something the Palm understands. The sites mentioned above produce etexts that can immediately be installed on your Palm (clicking a downloaded file is often enough to put it in the queue for the next PC-Palm synchronization). Last, but, as the saying goes, certainly not least, comes Blackmask, a provider of internet literature, much more than 'just' Project Gutenberg (iSilo, Microsoft Reader, Rocket eBook, Mobipocket).Plucker Books is Dave and Curtis' website that offers stripped-down HTML versions of popular public domain literary works (Plucker).GutenTalk is, like Many Books, a site where Project Gutenberg's fine literature is digitally republished (DOC).Baen, commercial publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy, publishes a substantial part of its catalog as gratis etexts (Microsoft Reader, Rocket eBook, PRC).The Online Books Page is a directory listing over 20,000 free books on the Web in all kinds of formats.Many Books provides free eBooks for your PDA (in Plucker, DOC, iSilo, Rocket Ebook, zTxt, PDF, and Palm Reader/eReader formats).Project Gutenberg does provide gratis ebooks, but not in a Palm native format. All the links I found led to publishers of commercial etexts who used some freebies as teasers. Unfortunately, my first search on Google for free ebooks for the Palm Pilot was rather unsuccessful. In August 2003, I bought myself a Palm Zire PDA to read the texts I had helped produce, and some of the classics.
It is presented here purely for historical interest.
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