World eBook Fair (Free Access to 1/3 million eBooks) Thread poster: Aurora Humarán (X)
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Aurora Humarán (X) 
Argentina
Local time: 10:45
English to Spanish
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In celebration of Project Gutenberg's 35th birthday, the site in the link below offers free access to the public to 330,000 books, from July 4th to August 4th.
http://www.worldebookfair.com/
| | | | Elías Sauza
Mexico
Local time: 07:45
Member (2002)
English to Spanish
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Thanks Au for sharing this link.
See you in BA.
Elías
| | | | Caryl Swift
Poland
Local time: 15:45
Polish to English
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And that's it really. Thank you, Aurora!
| | | | Balasubramaniam L.
India
Local time: 19:15
Member (2006)
English to Hindi
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SITE LOCALIZER | Many thanks! | Jul 14, 2006 |
A real treasure trove.
I particularly liked the mp3 section with audio files of some popular classics.
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avsie (X)
Local time: 15:45
English to French
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Thank you for sharing this link!
I have downloaded quite a few classics, especially those from my childhood (memories, memories!!)
| | | | | Ohhhh... the geek in me rejoices :D | Jul 14, 2006 |
Aurora Humarán wrote: In celebration of Project Gutenberg's 35th birthday, the site in the link below offers free access to the public to 330,000 books, from July 4th to August 4th. http://www.worldebookfair.com/
Au, you're a genius!! Thanks a million!
I used to say e-books would never replace good, ole paper books, and I still don't like to read in front of the PC, but one would have to be crazy not to take advantage of a treasure trove like this one!
So, yes, the geek in me has died and gone to heaven ;P
Thank you, darling!
| | | | Aurora Humarán (X)
Argentina
Local time: 10:45
English to Spanish
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TOPIC STARTER | Books buah.... | Jul 14, 2006 |
Listen, I am VERY busy now, but let me share here some very bad news: paper books are going to 'vanish' in 80 or 90 years.
This applies to those printed after the 50s. Books printed before that date (and even centuries ago) had been manufactured with different materials and different chemical processes. They will last...centuries. Most of my books ... will live a couple more years than I will. My grandchildren will not know my books.
I could not believe my eyes when my ... See more Listen, I am VERY busy now, but let me share here some very bad news: paper books are going to 'vanish' in 80 or 90 years.
This applies to those printed after the 50s. Books printed before that date (and even centuries ago) had been manufactured with different materials and different chemical processes. They will last...centuries. Most of my books ... will live a couple more years than I will. My grandchildren will not know my books.
I could not believe my eyes when my daughter told me this (she studies Edición at UBA, a university career about BOOKS!), so I asked this same question to a famous lexicographer and he confirmed the bad news.
Of course, we literature lovers can read on screens, but there is NOTHING like the book I have on my night table... Nothing.
I will investigate a bit more and will share with you.
Glad you like this site, prozians!
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Thanks a bunch for another one of your wonderful contributions. I forwarded it to all my friends and relatives, encouraging them to take advantage of this opportunity. I downloaded quite a few; not that I have the time or, just as María Teresa, that I particularly like to read from the computer, but it gives me joy that I have them and can access them any time.
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Silvina Matheu
Argentina
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Member
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| Good and bad news | Jul 14, 2006 |
Au, thanks for the link.
I have already downloaded some classics in the original version that I read in Spanish when I was a child
Aurora Humarán wrote:
This applies to those printed after the 50s. Books printed before that date (and even centuries ago) had been manufactured with different materials and different chemical processes. They will last...centuries. Most of my books ... will live a couple more years than I will. My grandchildren will not know my books.
Au
But I can't believe what you've just said!! Reading on the screen is not the same!! Let's hope someone comes up with some way of protecting paper.
Silvina
[Edited at 2006-07-14 21:38]
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| | For all of you... | Jul 24, 2006 |
who want to contribute to the **making** of e-books, here's a link: http://www.pgdp.net/c/ . There are books in quite a lot of languages to be read and corrected (well, the output from the scan, I mean).
As they put it themselves: "This site provides a web-based method of easing the proofreading work associated with the digitization of Public Domain books into Project Gutenberg e-books. By breaking t... See more who want to contribute to the **making** of e-books, here's a link: http://www.pgdp.net/c/ . There are books in quite a lot of languages to be read and corrected (well, the output from the scan, I mean).
As they put it themselves: "This site provides a web-based method of easing the proofreading work associated with the digitization of Public Domain books into Project Gutenberg e-books. By breaking the work into individual pages many proofreaders can be working on the same book at the same time. This significantly speeds up the proofreading/e-book creation process.(...)"
So, if you're looking for some "work" when you get tired of translating just browse this page and proofread a page or more!
Charlotte
PS Saving trees is a very good point! ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Are You Blowing Cash on Over-Priced Ebooks? | Jul 27, 2007 |
Have you purchased any high priced ebooks recently? In the last few years, ebook authors have been selling garbage ebooks for about a hundred dollars and they're riding the gravy train at your expense.
Most of these ebooks are pumped full of needless, worthless information just to increase their page count.
Recently, I purchased a much advertised AdSense ebook about how to make thousands of dollars every month from Google AdSense. After reading nearly 200 pages, all h... See more Have you purchased any high priced ebooks recently? In the last few years, ebook authors have been selling garbage ebooks for about a hundred dollars and they're riding the gravy train at your expense.
Most of these ebooks are pumped full of needless, worthless information just to increase their page count.
Recently, I purchased a much advertised AdSense ebook about how to make thousands of dollars every month from Google AdSense. After reading nearly 200 pages, all he said is to make the AdSense ads look like they're part of your website instead of looking like ads.
These types of ebooks are fluffed-up in order to justify the high price. If this ebook was cleaned of all the unrequired garbage, it would shrink to less than one tenth its current size, but that wouldn't sell.
A new wave of ebooks has recently emerged - short ebooks that have just what you need and nothing else just for filler. Straight and simple information, quickly explained so you can make use of it without wasting a lot of time sorting thru junk pages. Ebooks that are really worth the price. High value, yet cheap prices.
You want cheap? How does $7 sound to you?
You gotta see this
http://sevendollarsolution.com
Terrific Selection of $7 Ebooks.. ▲ Collapse
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