Freebies: GPS guide, David Drake fantasy novel, Wikipedia in Tome Raider format, Scott Sigler’s Infected, plus a dictionary program for Sony E Ink Readder
“For about $150 anyone can access the United States’ multi-billion dollar GPS program. GPS Outdoors: A Practical Guide for Outdoor Enthusiasts shows readers how to plug in and enhance most any outdoor experience.” - Wowio, an ad-supported company that offer the Guide for free.
More details: The Guide is for outdoor people ranging from hikers to “a climber pre-scouting the routes up Mount Shasta.” GPS just might save your life. Amazon reviews of the book are here. Paul Biba, a TeleBlog regular, is a GPS expert, and I’d welcome his thought on the guide. Alas, people outside the States can’t download Wowio books. But the company says that’ll change soon.
Other freebie spottings:
–David Drake’s fantasy novel Lord of the Isles, in PDF, HTML and Mobi from TOR’s weekly freebie program. Not sure if this is available to newcomers to the program, but sign up and give it a try.
–Wikipedia in Tome Raider format (found via MobileRead) and Scott Sigler’s novel Infected (MobileRead).
–Dictionary program for Sony E Ink machines (MobileRead).
March 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Haven’t had time to look at the book, or post here, because I’ve been in the process of reviewing the most exciting GPS unit I’ve ever seen. I know it’s off topic here, but this thing will change the way GPS is used - a complete paradigm shift. I think that David may even find a way to bring ebooks into it!
If you are interested in this type of stuff then take a look at my review here. Now that this is done I can get back to other things:
http://www.gpspassion.com/fr/articles.asp?id=246
March 31st, 2008 at 3:05 am
Lord of the Isles is also available for free as a part of Drake’s BaenCD:
http://baencd.freedoors.org/Books/Lord%20of%20the%20Isles/Lord_of_the_Isles.htm
See these sites for more free (and legal!) Baen books:
http://baencd.freedoors.org/
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
Also of note is that Baen just added Sony LRF format to their Webscription shop. Just like Fictionwise, they used Kovid Goyal’s libprs500 to do the conversion.