The Top 10 Free Or Very Cheap eBook Thrillers [MUO Book Club]
You’ll be hard pressed to find any long distance journey where none of the passengers are reading a thriller. This type of novel – packed with suspense, tension and excitement – has become a staple of literature over the past 100 years, with crime thrillers, political thrillers, mystery, psychological and paranoid thrillers all vying for attention on bookstore shelves.
10 Free Or Very Cheap eBooks Suitable For Children Under 14
With such a wide selection of eBooks available, sorting the wheat from the chaff can prove difficult. As with mobile phone and tablet apps, making a choice depends on much more than a quick look at the summary and cover image. You will also need to spend a bit of time checking reviews, looking at star ratings and considering the price. Alternatively, you could let us do it all for you!
How To Get Rid Of Kindle Fire Syncing Problems Once & For All
Whether you plan on reading books that you have bought from the Kindle Store or downloaded from elsewhere, the Kindle Fire is the ultimate eBook reader, enabling the user to read books, magazines, comics and documents of virtually any format for under $200. However for this functionality to be achieved the Kindle Fire must first be synced. Typically this is done wirelessly, although syncing by USB cable is also possible.
Need An eBook Reader For Android? Try Aldiko Book Reader!
As someone who has recently been getting sucked into reading more and more novels, I’ve been on the prowl for the best ebook readers on Android. So far, nothing has matched the sheer power and elegance of Stanza, but Aldiko has gotten close.
Convert Your Twitter Tweets Into A Published Book With Twournal
A few years ago, I stumbled upon Twournal which can put your latest 3,200 tweets into a PDF or paperback book. When you see your Twitter content archived in one document, you gain a better appreciation of what it means to be a published author. Twournal allows you to create, buy and sell books printed from your tweets. Registering on the site and creating your first book is nearly as easy as signing in and allowing Twournal to access your Twitter timeline
How To Write Your First Book In iBooks Author
Apple recently introduced iBooks Author in a live presentation at the Guggenheim in New York. The software is aimed at textbook writers and publishers, but it can just as well be used for producing cookbooks, picture books, interactive fiction novels, how-to books, and the like. iBooks Author looks to be the first consumer-based e-Pub software designed for multimedia books.
The 5 Best O'Reilly eBooks That Are Free To Download
There are quite a few people who have realised that smartphones, tablets and e-book readers are a great way to store and read technical manuals. It's not just that these books are not taking up room on the desk. It's also the fact that they're on hand when you need to refer to them and easy to get stuck into when you find yourself with an hour spare and realise you could spend a little time learning something useful.
How To Find A Nearby Library Which Lends Kindle Books & Other eBooks
As our society becomes more paperless, more people are looking for ways to replace their paper habits. Buying eBooks online is not a bad choice, but not everyone is into buying their books. Many of us enjoy our local public library, which lets us lend books for a limited time, and then return them. This is the cheaper, environmentally-friendlier and generally calmer choice, which doesn’t involve a lot of shopping.
Amazon's New "Send To Kindle" App Lets You Easily Send Files From PC To Kindle [News]
Amazon has just released a new piece of software, aimed at making your PC-Kindle interaction even easier. The new app is called Send to Kindle, and can be downloaded onto any Windows machine from here (Mac support is coming soon). Send to Kindle adds new ways for you to send any personal document from your PC to your Kindle device or Kindle app.
Kindle Fire Review and Giveaway
It’s a brand new year, and I am proud to be part of something brand new here at MakeUseOf: An independent hardware review followed by a giveaway. Today we’ll be giving away an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet to one lucky reader, but we took the time to test it first, and we have a complete review of what it’s like.
4 Things That Totally Suck About Using Technology in School
I’ve read that e-books are the future of books, and it’s not a matter of if they’ll surpass print books but when. Being still in college, I wondered if that was the case for e-textbooks. There’s certainly more buzz on e-textbooks as they’re cheaper and it means that students don’t have to break their backs with heavy physical books. But are they better? Is going all digital better?
Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader Now Available in Mozilla Firefox
Recently, Amazon launched their Kindle Cloud Reader, which allows Kindle users to read their books in many of their favorite browsers. However, one browser that was missing from the list was Mozilla Firefox. From day one, the HTML 5 based service supported Google Chrome, and the mobile and desktop version of Safari.
Instantly Convert Webpages To Cross-Platform eBooks With dotEPUB
Finding long, fulfilling articles to read is both rewarding and relaxing, but reading articles on your web browser isn't always ideal. Epub files can be read on most e-readers, including your Android and iOS devices, so you know you will be able to read this file on pretty much any device. dotEPUB is simple to use, and useful for anyone who regularly reads long articles.
The 10 Best Sites To Rent Or Buy College TextBooks Cheaply
Today's generation has the best of the online and offline worlds. We didn’t have websites which told us where to find (rent or buy) cheap textbooks. But today’s generation just has to type in a URL and hey presto, there are more than a dozen sites plying cheap textbooks for sale or rent. So, let’s take a look at ten websites where you can get college textbooks for cheap.
4+ More Websites to Find Free eBooks for iPad
A while back we wrote about the best places to find free iPad books. The article yielded many useful comments and suggestions from you, and made me want to explore the area even more. I’ve been using the iPad as a reading device more and more lately, and the quest for quality, free ebooks that I can read on the iPad is an ongoing challenge.
The Textbooks Of Tomorrow [INFOGRAPHIC]
As someone who has just bought an iPad, I can personally appreciate its potential to become the dominant force in the digital book wars. PDF and ePub files can be uploaded instantly, and then annotated with your stylus pen or finger. Let's face it, if you were a student, what would you rather have? 10 heavy textbooks or a thin much lighter iPad?
Download Free Ebooks for College Courses With Bookboon
If you're a college student, you don't have to buy brand new physical books every semester. One of the best alternatives is to legally download them online for free!
iBooks Vs. Kindle - Which Is Better? [iPad]
A while ago I wrote a post about places to find free books for the iPad. In that post, I compared the iPad to designated eReaders and expressed the opinion that it’s not a worthy substitute. Following some comments on the matter I tested the iPad again as a regular vessel for eBooks and was surprised – it does provide quite a good experience.
Read Entire Books On Your Smartphone With Moon+ Reader [Android 1.6+]
While I dearly love my Kindle, my smartphone is always with me. Also, the Kindle doesn’t have a backlit screen (which is the whole point of a Kindle really), and sometimes a reading lamp spreads too much light – such as when your significant other is trying to catch some sleep and you want to read in bed.
5 Great Apps for Avid Readers Who Prefer a Real Printed Book [Android]
If there is one area in life that I believe technology will never completely eradicate older "technology" is in the area of reading. While many people have adopted the great e-book readers and publications that are available out there, I believe there will always be people who will enjoy the experience of holding and reading a real, printed book.