I am asking you do you download books from the internet. Like ebooks. I think that downloading books is a new thing. If you do how many do you have on your hardrive. I might download some later. If you do what Program is best for that sort of thing. Best regards cool500:sw
i agree with notbob's letter "b".
i cant speak for letter a, bc i haven't been to the local library in years... i doubt i even know where my library card is.
even if you wanted unpublsihed stuff that a library couldn't get, p2p networks are less than ideal for spreading your writing.
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Actually i would download books if i could find the ones i wanted, but as it is now, it is faster to request them from the library.
Book Sharing hasn't hit the critical mass that games, movies, and songs, have.
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Call me old fashion, but i like the feel of reading a real book compare to e-books.
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I got 1984 in PDF format. I read it whenever I have nothing better to do or I'm burning a DVD or something. I am too lazy to go downtown to get it at the library, traffic is a nightmare and I have to park in a parking garage and I can never seem to get books back on time.
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Well, i get too impatient if i read from the computer screen. So i would rather get a book from a library.
But i haven't been to a library in years. I don't want to go back either, i got a Goosebumps book from there when i was like 8 years old and still didn't bring it back.
I don't know what if they start some book association against piracy, books are getting cheap, people want the movie or dvd now so i don't mind going to the library. IF i was out somwhere and i had my laptop maybe i'd read from that. But at home, hell no i'd just a read a book
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I collect role-playing game books, something I wouldn't do if I had to pay for paper copies. The Los Angeles city library system has little in the way of this type of material and if it did I wouldn't be able to collect them unless I had a scanner. I do agree though that reading PDFs sucks but I download to collect them, not read them necessarily. I guess I'm the only one here who knows where their library card is lol
As someone with a terminal case of Newbie Syndrome (NS), I can't really speak to the effectiveness of various programs. I've only tried BearShare and KMD. I saw more of the stuff I wanted on the Fast Track network but this is hardly surprising given its greater popularity.
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I download them but I never end up reading them for the same reason Isus and notbob said, it's just plain irritating to try and stare at the computer screen for that long.
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I do not download books.
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eBooks are not in .txt or .pdf format. Okay some are .pdf but most are not. I should know because I sell eBooks on my site. Of course I download them if I sell them! I currently sell 15 eBooks all in .EXE format.Originally posted by notbob
no point in it
a)books are freely available at libraries (they can request odd titles from interlibrary programs)
b)who wants to stare at a crappy .txt or .pdf on a screen for 500 pages?
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I posted my computer A-level notes and some other notes on edonkey network and got quite a good response.
i didn't get a bad response. over 200 people uploaded the files from me.
the site is http://p19m.bravepages.com
Thanks to p2p i don't need to pay for those hosting services.
ed2k: links and similar on other p2p networks are one of the best inventions
As you read this I'm downloading all kinds of books on Shareaza. I own quite a few Palm books myself, but I wanted to expand my digital library. There are also a lot of audio books available for download, which I'm stocking up on. I don't mind staring at e-books because I stare at the computer hours upon hours anyway.
I do get some but usually only of a tech nature I do have some others but it is hard to read anything I have to get INTO to enjoy while its in PDF I did print one book once but that was such an effing hassle that I gave up on it. speaking of tech I'm going to check out those papers u mentioned. I don't have shareaza now but I'll get it.
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