Reading and Such - Microsoft Reader
Microsoft Reader is a software package designed to display
electronic books or e-books. You can buy many books from vendors like Amazon.com
that are readable using this software.
I installed the first version of this some while back and recently downloaded
the latest version. I find that the display fonts management part of the
software is very good. I am reading it on a 19" monitor. I find it quite
easy on the eyes. I have not yet tried a small book pc or reading ebooks
on a notebook.
If I recollect correctly, Word 2000 has the ability to allow one to make
an ebook for the Microsoft Reader format.
Cost of ebooks?
A little looking around at Amazon.com showed these books and prices:
- Roses are Red by James Patterson
$11.96 US
- Timeline by Michael Crichton $0.90
US ( I have read this one in paperback and it is not one of his best
but at $0.90, hmmm.
- Blood on the Moon by James Ellroy
$0.50
These were under the category of
Mystery and Thrillers and there were quite a number of titles for $3.00
or less listed for downloading.
Something to think about if your library is bursting and you are experiencing
the sticker price shock of paperbacks over $10.00.
Microsoft
Reader - Shop Free Ebooks page
the link for the page to download free ebooks for Reader.
On Dec 13, 2001 I downloaded a free copy of The Prince of Tides by Pat
Conroy.
My current library of ebooks includes the following free books I downloaded
over the last year:
- The Gettysburg Speech and Other
Papers
- The Decameron - Boccaccio
- The Divine Comedy - Dante
- Moby Dick - Melville
- A Room with A View - Woolf
- The Belly of the Beast - Star
Trek SCE story by Dean Wesley Smith
- The Education of Henry Adams
- Funeral in Blue by Anne Perry
- Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
- The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne
Jewett
- The Ambassadors - Henry James
- The Turn of the Screw - Henry
James
- The Big Town - Ring Lardner
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