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[AuntiMame]

Where did you find the PG HTML document?

Project Gutenberg (here after PG) http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Here is the PG booklist of picture books http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Children%27s_Picture_Books_%28Bookshelf%29. Keep in mind that these are at least 80 years old, some older than that... some contain (how to put this politely) outdated ideas.

I surfed for classic kids books (as I remembered them from my childhood, lo' those many years ago) so Irish_Moss would have something for her kiddie to read 

Most PG texts are "plain vanilla ASCII", which can be edited with just about any basic word processor on the planet. But there are a few that also have HTML versions. And the HTML are likely to have pictures. 

So I copied and pasted from the HTML into MS Word, than formatted the page size and cleaned up the page breaks. E Voile! A PDF of an illustrated Peter Rabbit.

I've done this to lots of PG titles, as I used to read them on my Palm (back in the day). So I've gotten sorta quick with repetition. So if you have a title from PG that you want to try, I'll be happy to do it for you.

Aunti

[Maddie]

Thanks for the link.  I thought PG HTML was some special kind of HTML. 

I see they have Grimm's fairy tales, and they are indeed grim when compared to the Disneyfied version.

And yes, there's lots of things people said back then that today's parent may want to have an explanation handy.  Read the whole thing first.

[wade32505]

You might try The Pirate Bay.

Erm, I'm not sure suggesting copyright infringement is the right idea.

FYI: Not all the ebooks on Pirate Bay are infringing copyright. Granted many are but there are a good many that are legal.

[cmonkey]

You might try The Pirate Bay.

Erm, I'm not sure suggesting copyright infringement is the right idea.

FYI: Not all the ebooks on Pirate Bay are infringing copyright. Granted many are but there are a good many that are legal.

Thats true, but generally if something is out of copyright, or under a permissive license, its easy to get elsewhere.

[wade32505]

You might try The Pirate Bay.

Erm, I'm not sure suggesting copyright infringement is the right idea.

FYI: Not all the ebooks on Pirate Bay are infringing copyright. Granted many are but there are a good many that are legal.

Thats true, but generally if something is out of copyright, or under a permissive license, its easy to get elsewhere.

True. Just providing another source.

[davidrothman]

Feedbooks.com is one more place to try, although I don't know how many kids' titles it would offer. A good way to improve the XO as an e-book reader would be an adaption of FBReader. See:

http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/21/needed-asap-on-the-100-laptop-fbreader-and-easy-opera-installation/

and

http://www.fbreader.org

Happy laptopping,
David Rothman 

[lgarcia]

Hi everyone - a great resource for digital books is at the University of Pennsylvania at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

In addition to the usual author, subject, title categories, they also have special exhibits with a celebration of women writers section, a section on prize winning books - Newbery, Nobel and Pulitzer - and my personal favorite section of banned books and the reason they were banned. For instance "An illustrated edition of "Little Red Riding Hood" was banned in two California school districts in 1989. Following the Little Red-Cap story from Grimm's Fairy Tales, the book shows the heroine taking food and wine to her grandmother. The school districts cited concerns about the use of alcohol in the story."

[Maddie]

Hi everyone - a great resource for digital books is at the University of Pennsylvania at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

In addition to the usual author, subject, title categories, they also have special exhibits with a celebration of women writers section, a section on prize winning books - Newberry, Nobel and Pulitzer - and my personal favorite section of banned books and the reason they were banned. For instance "An illustrated edition of "Little Red Riding Hood" was banned in two California school districts in 1989. Following the Little Red-Cap story from Grimm's Fairy Tales, the book shows the heroine taking food and wine to her grandmother. The school districts cited concerns about the use of alcohol in the story."

Nice site.  I read the bit about Dr. Dolittle and then checked the reference.  1920 certainly was a long time ago.  That's why I said a parent should read the book first.

[intelliot]

Wow... is a list of all these sites compiled in one place yet?

[AuntiMame]

intelliot
(I really like the avatar!)

http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=504.msg3184#msg3184 has a list of places to download in beginning of the thread. I'm updating the list as I get new info.

Aunti

[intelliot]

thank you

very cool - that's a useful list.

[XOpher]

Here is a list of E-reading sources:

http://del.icio.us/eyefull

Here are E-book type audios too:

http://del.icio.us/earfull

The Feedbooks site allows custom sized PDFs.
I used 150mm x 112mm (or vice versa) for the XO and it worked great!

[jenstclair]

I haven't downloaded any ebooks yet to my XO, but the place I buy most of the ones I read is fictionwise.com, which is where mine are sold as well, not that you have to buy any of mine, of course!

[Tortuga]

Here's a link to a site that lists a large number of sources:

http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm#audio
                                        Best free Digital Libraries - Australia

                             New     Best free Digital Libraries - New Zealand

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                                          Other Free Australian Books

                                          Other Free Book Sites/Pages in English

                                          World - Other Languages, Regional and National

                                          Individual Topics/Miscellaneous

                                          Sacred Texts & Religion

                            New       Free Audio Books

[lgarcia]

LearningExpress Library just added free ebooks - www.LearningExpressLibrary.com

Check to see if your local library or school library has a subscription. If your local library does not subscribe to LearningExpress Library, you may be able to receive a complimentary evaluation code at [email protected] or call 1-800-295-9556, ext. 2.

I would be glad to send you the pdf URL for a particular title if you pm me. They don't seem to be password specifc.

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