Free Books

Dreaming on the theme of giving away books in order to sell them, I drifted into Planet PDF - Free PDF eBooks . I always perk up at the notion of free books. Sure enough, this website offers around 70 apparently full text publications. D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, for example, runs 801 pages. The download is one quick click and the books open beautifully in my browser-integrated version of Adobe Reader (also free). But wait! There's more. Some of the free books are available in an alternative "tagged" version. The website explains:

A PDF file equipped with well-formed tags may be "reflowed" to fit different page or screen widths, and will display well on handheld devices. Tagged PDF files also work better with the screen-reader devices used by many blind and other disabled users. In most cases, tags are necessary in order to make a PDF file comply with Section 508.

Available books are classics, probably all in the public domain, like Aesop's Fables, which I enjoyed revisiting. For readers in isolated areas, downloading these books and perhaps storing them on other media would provide the beginnings of your own library. Who says a library has to be a building or books hard bound? [Tectag: books]

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