Old books for my Kindle Fire

[Nicholas123]

White-Jacket by Melville is interesting about naval life, also Redburn and Typee.

+ OMOO another true story,absolutely brilliant.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Swallows and Amazons? ����

Still in copyright, but eight of his early works are available: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/601

 

[Seajet]

' Down Channel ' by RT McMullen

' The Lonely Sea And The Sky ' by Francis Chichester

I also found ' Beyond The Blue Horizon ' by Alexander Frater fascinating, it's about Imperial Airways flying boats but I loved the details about anchor stowage etc !

 

[Poignard]

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I also found ' Beyond The Blue Horizon ' by Alexander Frater fascinating, it's about Imperial Airways flying boats but I loved the details about anchor stowage etc !

CQR anchors, weren't they?

 

[JumbleDuck]

Roughing it and Life on the Mississippi. Two free books on Kindle by Mark Twain. Who knew that he was a riverboat pilot, gold miner etc before he was famous?

Everyone who knows why he used "Mark Twain" as his nom-de-plume? Mind you, "gold-miner" was new to me.

 

[JumbleDuck]

How about The Riddle of the Sands? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2360

 

[Poignard]

Everyone who knows why he used "Mark Twain" as his nom-de-plume? Mind you, "gold-miner" was new to me.

I believe it was a cry used by the leadsman: "By the mark, twain". Meaning two fathoms, I guess.

 

[dylanwinter]

Sorry about this lads

bit of a newbie

I downloaded what I thought were free kindle files to this laptop and then put them on the little sd card, popped that into the kindle and kindle file server can see them

but Kindle cannot read them

any hints?

in the end I bought the Mark Twain for 49p from amazon and it worked

I will now try to access the books via the kindle fire

 

[Sgeir]

I use Webcraft's old yotblogs. I find they burn quite well in the stove.

 

[John the kiwi]

I have found that the best reader for android is "Cool Reader"
It has a nice light parchment coloured background which works really well. I have read many books on my phone including; riddle of the sands, king solomons mines and treasure island. All great reads!
What i would like to find is Racundra's last cruise in electronic format.
I found a free online copy somewhere (Gutenberg?) that had been scanned so badly that the first few letters of each line were absent which made it impossible to read. Very frustrating.

 

[JumbleDuck]

II found a free online copy somewhere (Gutenberg?) that had been scanned so badly that the first few letters of each line were absent which made it impossible to read. Very frustrating.

I found that one too. Done by someone who didn't realise that once you have done the scanning and OCR, you still need to proofread, correct and mark up. It took me quite a while to convert the Para Handy stories (from Gutenberg Australia, which seems to have a more relaxed attitude to copyright) into a working eBook.

 

[snowleopard]

Start here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-eBooks/zgbs/digital-text/341689031/ref=zg_bs_fvp_p_f_341689031?_encoding=UTF8&tf=1

As they are free (mostly - check the price before downloading!) you can delete them if they don't grab your attention in the first chapter.

A couple of people have handed me multi-gig memory sticks with books of dubious legality. Most of them have been scanned from printed books and contain errors like 'rn' being rendered as 'm' or 'cl' as 'd' which can be a little confusing.

 

[dylanwinter]

I managed to make the guttenberg thing after following you tube instructions from a 15 year old girl

basically amazon chucks every barrier in your way that it can to stop you using stuff from elsewhere

 

[Sailingsaves]

I'm waiting for you to write a book one day; if it is half as good as your videos it will become a classic.

 

[dylanwinter]

I'm waiting for you to write a book one day; if it is half as good as your videos it will become a classic.

written two already

 

[Sailingsaves]

written two already

Yes, sorry, I meant about the trip round Britain.

Your videos on North American trucks were great and I enjoyed the NewZealand vids too.

 

[dylanwinter]

Yes, sorry, I meant about the trip round Britain.

Your videos on North American trucks were great and I enjoyed the NewZealand vids too.

the book will have to wait until the end I reckon

sadly.... hard to justify the time to write 100,000 words or so

we shall see

D

 

[Billows]

across islands and oceans james baldwin
breaking seas glen damato
chance conrad
cruise of the dazzler jack london
cruise of the snark jack london
hell on keels rick desloge
the life of captain reilly ht o neill
the long escape jeff noonan
mutiny of the elsinore jack london
the sea wolf jack london
typhoon conrad
unknowh seas portuguese captains ronald watkins
troubled waters captain john de silva
south sea tales jack london
the junk that challenged the yachts paul chow

 

[Nicholas123]

I read a free book recommended here a few months ago from Amazon & it meant downloading free software from them also to read it & it all went wonderfully smoothly.That was using Windows 7 on a laptop.Now I an using Lubuntu,the question is will it work with that?

It has rekindled my yearning to read adventure sailing books. :encouragement:

 

[Stemar]

I managed to make the guttenberg thing after following you tube instructions from a 15 year old girl

basically amazon chucks every barrier in your way that it can to stop you using stuff from elsewhere

That's why you need Calibre.

There aren't many books outside Amazon in native Kindle format; .EPUB is probably the most common but most Kindles don't support them (surprise, surprise...), so you have to be able to convert them. I usually convert them to .MOBI files that Kindles seem quite happy with.