08-05-2014, 09:11 PM | #1 |
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Free ebook from University of Chicago Press
This month's free ebook is "For the Love of it: Amateuring and Its Rivals" by amateur cellist, Wayne C. Booth - http://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html According to the description, "... It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it". The ebook is in pdf format.
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08-05-2014, 10:47 PM | #2 |
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And it's a big file in PDF too. A bit over 12 MB. I don't know if that's too big for reading on an ereader or not but it is bigger than most of the files I have on mine.
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08-06-2014, 06:37 PM | #5 |
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With help from these forums, I used Calibre and K2pdfopt to convert the pdf to a form I can enjoy reading on my cheap Chinese ereader. The only problem is that the I have to remember the page no. each time I turn off the reader - it doesn't go straight to where I left off, as it does with epubs.
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