Wattpad For iPhone and iPod Touch
Good news! Wattpad is already available for iPhone and iPod Touch.
To those who didn’t know, Wattpad is a mobile application for online mobile ebook reading. “Online” means you have to use an internet connection. The best part is… with iPhone and iPod Touch, there would be no connection fee compared to other phones because they are wifi capable.
This may be the best device for Wattpad or the other way around for online mobile eBook reading. It is already available for download from App Store for free.
They are currently running a contest, they’re giving away an iPod Touch to a lucky Wattpad fan. Not bad but I’m hoping that I will win so I can test and read more eBooks and experience wattpad on iPod.
I wonder if I could also download ebooks and read it offline just like what I did on my N6630. The only way toknow is to own (or win) an iPod Touch. (my fingers are crossed… LOL)
Why Java eBook On Mobile?
Consider this as a follow up post of Java eBook Conversion, many got interested with the mobile java eBooks. What’s in the Java based eBooks that many got interested?
There are various mobile phones in the technology market nowadays, the problem is what ebook application should be used on every phone. We also have to consider the ebook format we already have on our ebooks, if we want to read again an ebook on other mobile phone. Take it from me, I choose mobile phone depends on my favorite ebook application compatibility.
But sometimes, depends on the availability of the mobile application, phone’s internal memory and memory card among other things, the ebook format I recommend is in java ebook format.
Advantages:
- Compatible to wide variety of java enabled phone
- Doesn’t need separate mobile application to read ebooks
- Easy to install and uninstall
- Customizable on conversion
Disadvantages:
- Availability of ebooks for download
- Alloted time for java ebook conversion
Should you want to add more here, let me know.
Twilight Saga eBooks Banned To Forums?
Looking for Twilight Saga eBooks by Stephenie Meyer? The easiest way to download free ebooks is become a member of ebook forums. eBook formats depends on the forum, based on my experience, pdf is the commonly used format. So, as expected if we are reading them on our handheld device, we have to convert them to mobile ebook format.
I don’t and will not post any free ebook download forum links on my blog merely because I’m protecting them not to be closed. I got some of my ebook files from them and share as well what I have. Its simple as that. As of this writing, I don’t have plans of making my own forum, my schedule won’t allow me plus I don’t want to gamble my site for posting copyrighted materials.
Speaking of copyrighted materials, I did mentioned many times that ebooks are copyrighted materials. It could be a reason for site closure without warning. I believe, many webhost state this on their TOS including bluehost.
Going back to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga eBooks, there were some forums got closed because some of the members posted free ebook download link of the series. Two forums I frequently visit suspected that their forum were closed because the recently uploaded and/or posted free ebook links are the Twilight Saga. Lessons learned the hard way, to avoid the closure of forum, even mentioning the name of Stephenie Meyer is kinda taboo on their forum.
Would you blame Stephenie Meyer or the Twilight Saga publisher? I don’t think so. All books are copyrighted not unless you have the distribution license or resell rights. After all, you could just watch Twilight, the movie soon.
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty eBooks
Today is Blog Action Day focusing on poverty, every blogger will be united on this day to discuss poverty issues. This is my first time to participate.
Poverty is a very delicate issue, everyone have his own point of view… the origin… the causes… the effects… its a global issue. Poverty is a condition in which the basic needs of human beings (shelter, food, and clothing) are not being met. I browsed the net to search for some files about poverty, somehow it will give us a better understanding.
- Poverty In The Philippines, Income, Assets and Access ¹
- Causes Of Poverty In The Philippines ¹
- Poverty, Vulnerability and Family Size: Evidence from the Philippines ¹ (2005)
- Analyzing the Impact of Philippine Tariff Reform on Unemployment, Distribution, and Poverty ² (2003)
- Human Resource Development and Poverty in the Philippines ² (2005)
- Impact of Agrarian Reform on Poverty ² (2002)
- Land Issues in Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Development Agenda: Philippines ² (2003)
- Population and Poverty: A Review of the Links, Evidence and Implications for the Philippines ² (2002)
- Philippine Poverty Assessment Vol.1 4 (2001)
- A Strategy To Fight Poverty 4 (1996)
- Doha Scenarios, Trade Reforms, and Poverty in the Philippines: A CGE analysis 5 (2005)
Sources:
2 Philippine Institute For Development Studies
3 Oxford Poverty And Human Development Initiative
5 International Food Policy Research Institute
All the above links are in PDF format, simply click the title to view the file or right-click then choose “save as” to save the file. You could also read them directly on your handheld device or convert them to other ebook formats.
Free eBooks Download
Ok, I gave up. Since I cannot post mobile ebooks here for copyright reasons, I guess it won’t harm my blog if I post some of the websites I know for free ebook download. I’m also receiving some email inquiries about ebook links. If you intend to read the ebooks on mobile, don’t forget to browse the ebook conversion because most websites are using ebook format not intended for mobile and as well as the mobile application needed for your mobile ebook reading. Otherwise, just download the necessary ebook reader for your computer.
This post is regularly updated to add more ebook download links and removed dead links. Take note that I will not post direct links of certain ebooks. I’ve categorized the sites based on ebook format.
Online Reading (html, xml format)
Arthur’s Classic Novels
Baen Free Library
Chest Of Books – Online reading on various topics
Classic Short Stories – collection of classic short stories and light prose
Classic Reader
Dark Creek – classic ebooks
Fairy Tales Collection
Free Management Library – Management eBooks to read online
Page By Page Books – Classic books
Read Print
Wattpad – see my post, online mobile ebook reading for details
Mobile eBooks (java format)
Books In My Phone
Mobile Library
PDF
Bookyards
Free Book Links – Computer and technology ebooks
EServer TC Library – blogging, internet and other ebooks
Get Free eBooks
Greylib
Planet PDF
Wowio – Needs to register first to download maximum of 3 ebooks a day. US only
Various Formats
Bartleby – LIT, PDF, Aportis PRC
CCEL – Online (HTML) and TXT format are free
ESSPC eBooks – LIT, Mobipocket PRC
eText Library – LIT, PDB, HTML
FeedBooks EPUB, MOBI, PDF
Girl eBooks – PDF, eReader PDB, LIT, TXT, PRC
Gutenberg – html, plucker, txt and audio books
Many Books – for PC and mobile ebook formats
MnyBks Mobile – java (JAR), PRC, PDB, RTF
Mart Schnd eBooks – PDF, PRC, LIT
Memoware – variety of formats usually for Palm, PPC and mobile (depends on the mobile application)
Mobipocket – in PRC and mobi format
Munseys – HTML, PDF, LIT, PRC
Munsey’s Mobile – PRC
Paula Daunt’s Index – PDF, TXT, DOC
Web Books – ePub and Online (needs registration)
WebScription – RB, PRC, EPUB, LIT, LRF, RTF, Online (HTML)
All links above are free ebooks download… Enjoy!
Note: I’m working hard to search and edit this post. Please don’t copy the entire contents, I appreciate a link back to this post. Thank you.
