04.12.07
WOWIO - Free Vonnegut eBooks
I discovered WOWIO today via Teleread and it’s a great source of DRM-Free known titles of free eBooks. What caught my attention initially was that they were offering 5 Kurt Vonnegut titles (Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle, Player Piano, and Slaughter-House Five). All are ad supported, which as best as I can tell means that the first few pages are sponsored like magazine ads, but then the book is clean which is quite fine (ahem) in my book.
Since the books are PDFs we can read them directly on the Tablet without any additional applications. There’s a great PDF reader right within the Utilities folder under Applications. If you are feeling adventurous, you might also like to try the Evince reader, which is another PDF document reader. I’m actually finding that the pages flow better on Evince, but the rendering is a tad quicker on the PDF Reader app. It all comes down to personal choice and whether you want to install a second similarly functioning application.
I saved the five books to one of my memory cards and am reading full screen at 200% (or fit to width). The Nokia Tablet’s screen is awesome for reading books like this and I’d recommend you check out WOWIO yourself. WOWIO has a 5 book download per day limit, but you can queue in a shopping cart, that saves your selections for later…
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