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It’s hard to judge the state of play with ebooks.
And completely free ebooks, just now, are those which are legitimately available for free.
We all know that.
Getting Free Ebooks
The largest source of out of copyright ebooks isProject Gutenberg.
If you want a book from before your parents were born, this is the place to start.
Books are available in a number of formats, categories and languages.
For a slightly different view of what’s available, you also might like to take a look atmanybooks.
They have a more modern approach to things.
Some categories are not appropriate for everyone.
For instance, the nice people atBaen Bookshave afree ebook libraryfor science fiction.
There are plenty of other options out there for broad or narrow fields of study.Googleis your friend.
Be cautious of the sites that require you to sign up, and watch what you download.
We’re just going to nibble off a little corner.
Specifically, I want to show you how toorganiseyour books, and then how toconvertthem.
You’ll see why by the time we get to the end of this.
Start Calibre, and from the main toolbar select theAdd Books"button.
Browse to wherever you downloaded the books, and add them one by one.
Calibre does its best to work out what to add, but you oughta help.
Metadata
Right-click one of the titles, go for the metadata edit option.
Fill in the data as best you might.
There is also an option to download the metadata for the book from the Internet.
I had mixed results, but it’s worth a shot.
Not much use with three books, but you could use your imagination.
The format thatyouwant will depend almost entirely on the gear you want to use to read your books.
you’re free to choose, but I just need to use an example.
So,War and Peacefrom HTML to PDB: Right-hit the book, chooseConvert books, thenConvert individually.
On the left are a big list of option categories.
Give the system a minute to deal with your request, and then that’s it.
Browse to the location of the library, and take a look.
Copy or synch them to your machine, roll out the reader program, and you’re all set.
you could also use the built-in Calibre reader on your PC for most formats.
