PC Library

[Davidu]

While browsing through the DC++ hubs I found some guy from another city that had HOUNDREDS of books in his computer. I mean he had encyclopedias, magazies, fiction books, novels, you name it he had it. Any kind of literature, philosophy, medicine, economics, law... even ALL the Dune books including the Brian Herbert ones... I can't believe what that guy has in his PC.

I mean THAT is real value.... not music, or movies, or games, or... I dunno what.

I cannot believe that someone has tens of gigabytes of BOOKS. That is awsome!

[Jack Leaf]

Were they scanned or in text format (PDF, DOC?)?

Though I must say it is kind of strange that somebody has such a library of books on his computer. It could be just share-faking (if you didn't download any of them to check) or then he has hacked into library database or something...

Amazing, really.

[Kiyouta]

Reading whole books on a computer? I had to do that once and it was torture. Just buy the f'ing book.

[Andrew]

Really, I'm not sure of the point of e-books, other than the ability to quickly search for something in them. Reading a book off of a computer screen is not exactly pleasant. Getting hard copy (paper) is much better, even if it is from a library.

And getting an e-book and printing it off isn't such a good thing to do unless you got lots of ink and paper.

Although articles found though ABI-Inform is a different matter, as it is hard to get those articles in print form, and it takes time to receive them (from an academic point of view).

I used to download e-books back in the day. It was a real waste of time (ie. I downloaded a book on how to make Mcdonalds restaurant food when I started university), except for the html manuals.

FYI University students (at most universities in Canada I presume) we get free access to many things.

ABI/INFORM Global    Coverage: Varies      UPEI only

Provides indexing and abstracting of more than 1,600 leading business and management publications, including full text for more than 840 publications.

I agree with Kiyouta.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

for free ebooks. They are free and legal (in the USA) as the copyrights for the books have expired.

[Jack Leaf]

Of course, books on paper are much better, but sometimes the e-forms have advantanges - especially when you have to find something quickly. For example, I'm currently doing an essay about V

[Davidu]

They are in TXT. RTF, PDF and DOC formats. and are not fakes...

Jeez, it's totally crazy how many books this guy has. Even the antique greek writers.

[Caid Ivik]

Well, I have about 2.5 GB of books...surely most of it from DC++

[Davidu]

Jeez!! How many titles do you have? I mean have you read ALL of them, or do you know HOW MANY you have exactly?  ;D

[Caid Ivik]

no idea ;D  some books I have in more translations or formats, so it cannot be said exactly, I read only small part of it, but as I use an old digital PDA I find it very practical, there is a perfect site http://www.poormojo.org/dod2.html which converts text into PDB format for it...and sometimes you find good or rare books to download there as well