Vodafone opens online library for mobile e-bookworms
If you’d like to lose yourself in an e-book, but don’t want the expense or inconvenience of a large Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, then hopefully Vodafone's latest idea will keep you reading.
Vodafone_BoM Vodafone's Books on Mobile service: download novels direct to your phone
The network operator, together with digital …
I use my SmartPhone to do this already - either purchased eBooks or Word documents converted using the free Microsoft Reader plugin. It's just about acceptable - but the screen size is a definite limitation for any lengthy read.
That is all profit. What a rip-off! No-one who is intelligent enough to read will pay that much money. I, like many people I suspect, have been doing what Dr Patrick suggests. Try Project Gutenburg or Feedbooks
The choice of books available at gospoken.com is pretty dire, and the prices are ridiculous. Why haven't they grasped that we expect electonic books to be CHEAPER than paper ones for a whole lot of practical reasons to do with printing and distribution, etc, quite apart for the fact that we can't press them enthusiastically onto a friend, or give them to Oxfam when we're done with them?
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Vodafone opens online library for mobile e-bookworms
If you’d like to lose yourself in an e-book, but don’t want the expense or inconvenience of a large Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, then hopefully Vodafone's latest idea will keep you reading. Vodafone_BoM Vodafone's Books on Mobile service: download novels direct to your phone The network operator, together with digital …
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Posted Monday 6th October 2008 19:19 GMT
James Pickett (Jp)
Ahead of its Time #
This will be great when you can scroll out a foldable e-ink screen out the side of your mobile!
Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 09:07 GMT
Dr Patrick J R Harkin
SmartPhone #
I use my SmartPhone to do this already - either purchased eBooks or Word documents converted using the free Microsoft Reader plugin. It's just about acceptable - but the screen size is a definite limitation for any lengthy read.
Posted Tuesday 7th October 2008 13:13 GMT
Iain
£5-£15 a book?????!!!!! #
That is all profit. What a rip-off! No-one who is intelligent enough to read will pay that much money. I, like many people I suspect, have been doing what Dr Patrick suggests. Try Project Gutenburg or Feedbooks
Posted Wednesday 8th October 2008 11:53 GMT
DennyL
Pathetic #
The choice of books available at gospoken.com is pretty dire, and the prices are ridiculous. Why haven't they grasped that we expect electonic books to be CHEAPER than paper ones for a whole lot of practical reasons to do with printing and distribution, etc, quite apart for the fact that we can't press them enthusiastically onto a friend, or give them to Oxfam when we're done with them?
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 07:19 GMT
Psmiffy
Books in my phone #
Its a little limited for now, but I find booksinmyphone.com quite useful and handy for this sort of thing.
Also, Mobipocket Reader has a version that runs on mobile devices, and syncs very nicely with the version on the PC
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