This year marks the 40th anniversary of e-books. The best opportunity to celebrate the upcoming International Week E-book - this year from 6 to 12 March.
share idea is: 'Get involved with a new form if you do not like, you can come back after a week of reading this traditional, rustling and smelling of ink. "
initiator Week E-book is
Rita Toews Award-winning Canadian novelist and children's books. For the first time the action was carried out in 2004
year. In last year's event was attended by fans e-books from 136 countries, including the Polish.
E-book (eBook, eBook, or electronic publication), e-book is content stored in electronic form, intended to be read using appropriate software installed on your computer.
E-book created Michael S. Hart . He is the founder Projectu Gutenberg, which makes e-books are freely available via the Internet. Hart wanted to use a computer to disseminate information. Once I was asked to forward the text of the Declaration of Independence United States. He could not send this e-mail. He had to put it on the Internet. It was the first e-book and the beginning of Project Gutenberg - posting a copy of classic texts in the network. Initially, they were placed: the Bible, the works Homer, Shakespeare, Twain ...
The first Polish e-book ever wanted to be a book SCORPION "House of Day, House of Night", promoted by Bertelsmann, though it was the usual Word document.
- Electronic books, or rather the devices and software to download and play, have several advantages and some disadvantages - the importance of However, the latter decreases with each passing year, thanks very much rapid technological progress and decreasing costs.
- timeliness of information, which is driven mainly by the Internet.
- lower cost of acquiring information (newspapers, books, school textbooks, scientific papers, etc.), if you do not count, of course, disposable equipment costs.
- Navigation System and retrieval incomparably richer and more effective than the traditional book.
- virtually unlimited volume of electronic materials.
- easy archiving and access to large quantities of books. Storage problems disappear and unnecessary waste paper.
- Combining all sorts of media types in a uniform electronic format impossible to obtain in such a wide range of traditional book.
- Facilitating access to information for millions of people with diminished physical.
- growing range of available titles.
Disadvantages of e-books:
Greater requirements for electronic devices, whose use is associated with a given level of technical culture.
- acquisition cost of the device (computer or a special player.)
- Poor still quality displays, resulting in faster and slower fatigue reader reading (according to the tests - about 25 percent).
- limited portability, but it's not applicable in principle, a notebook or electronic book reader.
- economic infrastructure constraints (especially the billing system), discouraging publishers to greatly intensify of managing new opportunities.
- no sufficiently effective techniques and technologies that facilitate the use electronic media for people with disabilities (in particular, sound synthesis.)
- Few effective techniques of protecting copyright.
Check Polish bookstores offer e-books, e-newspapers and audiobookami, create a user account, read the free excerpt, compare prices and conditions sales. Have the widest range of Empik , Virtualo, Nexto, Bezkartek, Eclipse, and elib Golden Thoughts.
Go to any site with free e-books, check out the catalog, search for the desired book and download it to your computer or read online. I recommend sites Free Readings, New Library, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, Scribd, Feedbooks and Smashwords .
Download an application for reading . A year ago there was a Polish application for reading e-books on mobile devices. Now, if from carrying the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, you can download free applications Bezkartek, Legimi and Woblink.
Subscribe. DailyLit service allows you to subscribe to email or RSS reader. Choose your favorite novel, set the frequency of send in a e-book will find you alone!
Read about the e-bookach
Visit the official website Read an E-Book Week. Discover the history of e-books, read interviews with guests, check out links to the parties.
Read the Wikipedia - about what should be the electronic book, what are its advantages and disadvantages, learn more about Project Gutenberg, or e-paper.
Check out the new articles on Polish blogs dedicated e-book, e-book readers and the future. Regularly read the blog entries Audiobook Fan, Eclipse, Elektroblog, eBooks, Libranova, Letter likes digit, NaCzytniki, No Future Book, Superczytelnia and dissent.
Herring entries tagged with # ebookweek . This is the official, "the hallmarks of the Week E-book. At the end of this article you will find a list of recent entries.
Share with your friends!
Send link on Facebook, Twitter, Blip, Flaker . If you find an interesting article, you'll find an interesting book or find a blog dedicated to e-books - do not forget to share it with your friends. Remember - add tag # ebookweek to others it was easier to locate your entry.
Create alert on the blog. Write what you think about e-books, about his impressions after reading the first e-book in his life, about what features should be to fulfill your expectations.
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Choice legitimate sources of free e-books |
- a digital library created by the Foundation of Modern Poland, offering a reading of school and other books. Readings are supplemented with comments and - for the convenience of site - made available in several formats (including some of the mp3 - to listen.)
- Using the search engine on this website, search the resources of 60 digital libraries created by libraries, universities, archives, museums and research centers.
- a digital library offers digitized texts of literary, scientific, historical documents, journals, photographs and other originals of which are located in the National Library.
- digital collection of contemporary scientific books - especially those where access is difficult, for example, by lack of availability on the market in printed form.
- collection of free e- books available in our online shop cyfrowaszafa.pl, we find the classic books belonging to Polish and world literature.
- Polish list of free e-books available Feedbooks.com the site, the site published a new literature, placed there by the authors of books.
