Free e-books of sailing/boating/etc ???

[Poignard]

Could this be because the images are in a separate file? Try looking for a related file in your downloads folder.

If your downloads folder looks anything like mine, that won't work.

Create a new folder and download again to the new folder. If there's more than one file there, you have your answer.

I'll have to experiment a bit more to prove it but I think that Gutenberg books with pictures that I have downloaded and dragged & dropped to the Kindle using my laptop retain the images but when I do the same from my PC the images are lost.

The laptop has Vista and the PC has XP. Would that have anything to do with it?

 

[Bosun Higgs]

I also tried loading a PDF file and Kindle allows "Zoom" on these .

Does it? How? I've just tried on mine and I cant find any zoom facility

 

[agurney]

Sailing directions here: http://sailing.agurney.com/sailing-directions

For UK users http://www.agurney.com/kindle-sail has synoptic charts (using the browser) and Oban tides .. I'll be publishing the 2012 version of the Oban tides in the new year.


On the Amazon site, and specifically free and related to sailing, I enjoyed the novels by William Hope Hodgson (that's in addition to the perennial favourites - Captain Marryat, Joseph Conrad, Joshua Slocum, et. al.)

The easiest thing to do is search a keyword then follow the links to what other folk have 'bought'.

 

[Poignard]

Does it? How? I've just tried on mine and I cant find any zoom facility

Click the button marked 'Aa'

Click on either '150%, 200%, 300% or actual size' as required

To zoom press the square button underneath the 'Menu' button.

nb I'm assuming you have the original Kindle with the keyboard. If not, I don't know.

 

[semisimple]

That's a good book. I have it in 'real' book form . Another good book by Millar is 'Oyster River'. It describes a season cruising in the Golfe de Morbihan in a 24-ton yawl 'Amokura'. This boat had no engine and was sailed by him and his small wife with no extra crew.

http://www.sailing-boats-for-sale.com/sail_boat_231918.aspx

What a beautiful boat!! I stumbled across it (the book) in a second-hand bookshop whilst looking for christmas presents .

I'll try and track down Oyster River, sounds good (Isabel and the Sea seems to be quite popular too).

SEMISIMPLE - Thanks for the reference to 'Sailing a White boat from England' I've viewed it on my PC and spent 6 enjoyable hours doing so, now to find the follow-up by Millar!!

ianat182

Heh, you're welcome. It must be fun to read the descriptions of the ports but from the pov of a small boat - have you noticed any major differences between his impression of ports and yours?

I love his writing, I only read the preface before I was sold!

The reader will soon discern my method, for it is simple. After taking all reasonable precautions to see that hull, gear, sails, and crew are sound, I fling myself (and my wife) on the waters. Then we pick up the remains.

(and he dislikes the word yacht being as he says 'a poor man living in proletarian days')

 

[ianat182]

SEMISIMPLE - When we were in Gibraltar our MY was moored at the end of the runway by the little ATC hut; I'd just joined the boat after landing there in a BEA Viking(Valetta) via Bordeaux and Madrid,and thought we were going either into the sea or the Rock itself ! There was an area called the Waterport where I used to go ashore for our provisions.
I'm sure that the HMS Vanguard was berthed in the Naval Base then; also the wrecked Liberty ships over towards Algeciras that I believe were used for underwater warfare during the war.
Our travels through the Med included Alicante, Cartagena, and the three Balearic Isles, Port Mahon being favourite ports of call, which Mr Millar didn't visit. From there we went Cassis,Sete and Nice, Cannes and back to Gibraltar and Morocco;Tangier, Port Lyautey as it was then Mogador, Fedala( now Mahomeddia(sp?), Casablanca,Safi, Mazagan and Agadir, all excellent ports of call except Safi, a most unfriendly set of officials spoiled our visit.

Oh to be 16 again!!
Apologies PARSIFAL for thread drift!!
ianat182

 

[Croak]

A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W.
Voyage of the Liberdade: A Journey from Brazil to America in a Hand-Built Boat by Joshua Slocum
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
South Sea Tales by Jack London
How To Anchor Safely - So You Sleep Well! by Malcolm Snook and Gill Blake
Sailing Alone Around the World: The Classic Circumnavigation Adventure by Joshua Slocum
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by James Cook
The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton by Oliver Optic
The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Frank on a Gun-Boat by Harry Castlemon
The Journey by Esther Jno-Charles
Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Sunset on a Rogue Sail (The West Indies Pirates Series)

Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Walter Runciman

 

[Poignard]

Apologies PARSIFAL for thread drift!!
ianat182

I like thread drift. Many a dull thread has been enlivened by it. (But I'm not for one moment suggesting that this thread is dull, Shearwater)

 

[flobbets]

For most ebook readers (but not Kindle at the moment) the best source of free books is your local library. Most libraries now stock ebooks that you can "borrow" online. You can also join Singapore's national library and gain access to thousands of ebooks although they are not all sea and boat related!

Mike

 

[Shearwater]

...thanks all

especially Croak for the list - just what I was after.

 

[Croak]

To expand that list, go onto the Amazon site, on your computer.

In the search box, change "All departments" to "Kindle store"

then type "sea" into the search box and click on GO.

about 2/3 of the way up the page on the right hand side is a "sort by" box

Change this to "price: low to high", And you will get a few more.

Keep going with several boaty search words. Add any to my list, then post it back on here.

 

[ianat182]

Just to add that I found a reference to the 'Winnibelle 'book but written by Marin Marie,so perhaps G Millar ownership was after the book events described?
Yes looks an excellent list there CROAK!

Ianat182

 

[Blue5]

Would be nice to see a sticky in The Book Club forum for free e-books

 

[Theta]

Would be nice to see a sticky in The Book Club forum for free e-books

An excellent idea!