Tor ebooks adds HTML and mobi formats
 

The free ebooks being offered by Tor Science Fiction & Fantasy (http://www.tor.com/) are now available for download in HTML and mobi formats as well as pdf, which work better with fbreader on the N8x0 than the pdf->text route.

Thanks to the OP regarding the Tor offer, whose original message thread I can't seem to find now.

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You can even get the first one in the same formats if you email them explaining the PDF's are awful on the NIT...they were supper fast to respond over on MobiRead to the users there and how on almost all readers PDF's are not the best option by far. Kinda like Tecate beer...it is only good in 120-degree in the shade weather and the local water is bad. Basically that is how PDF's work on these burnt out eyeballs. ;)

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I had decent success converting them to HTML with Acrobat, but it's nice that they gave us some real formats now (though the PDFs look really nice).

Just gotta invert the images for white-on-black with FBReader with the HTML/Mobi, though.

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This may be ot and duplicative, but another good place for free books (in pdf format) is wowio.com. There is sci-fi and comics, as well as serious stuff such as philosophy, literature, and history. I learned about it here! (I wrote to one of the authors thanking her for her book, and she replied that she had no idea it was on wowio.com!)

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You may not be aware of it if you live in the USA, but wowio.com is restricted to USA only (i.e., requires use of a proxy server if outside the USA). Most of the content is available internationally on other sites if you don't feel like going the proxy route.

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Yeah, just found that out. Shame, I was really looking forward to reading Alfred "Kooky" Van Voght's "Slan" again.

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Full text of some of the 2007 Hugo award nominees (F&SF) onine here: http://www.nippon2007.us/hugo_nominees.php

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Another GREAT source of sci-fi is baen.com . Lots of good free stuff and you can purchase newer stuff as well. BIG point in their favor (IMO) is that they have their heads screwed on right about the copy protection stuff.

No connection with these folks other than being a very VERY satisfied very long time customer :).