What is eBooks?

Reading eBooks are definitly my favourite pass time activities, imagine whenever you are waitting for a friend in a cafe or just enjoying a nice cup of coffee. A good book will be great companion, since carrying bulky physical books is cumbersome, why not try to download eBooks into your PDA and endulge yourselves.

Where to Get?

Microsoft with its Microsoft Reader application push forward the e-book industry and have come up with this collection of e-books created using their standardized format .LIT, check out this site for the catalog or directly go to the FREE e-book section.

You can find alot of eBooks such as the interesting "The Dialogues of Plato", the classical "Tales of the two cities" by Charles Dickens or "The four horsemen of the apocalypse" and even the famous classical work of Bram Stoker, "Dracula". Microsoft has partner up with the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center in providing classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and more. You can even find the original work of Charles Darwin on the evolution of human species here. All you gotta do is just search.

Specific books on Asian culture can be found at the University of Oregon e-Asian Digital Library, which is also accessible through Microsoft Reader's website. the e-Asian also provide other resources than just eBooks such as the Audio Archive and Map Images. Check them out !!.

You can also go to the e-Novel website for some collections of contemporary novels.

Enhanced Your eBook Experience

Microsoft Reader come in many version, you can syncronized eBooks between your Pocket PC PDA and desktop/notebook and even your Tablet PC if you got one. Download from Microsoft. You will need to activate the application before you can read eBooks. I would also recommend to download the Text To Speech component, which is very helpfull if you need to read a long book. Too bad it doesn't work in the PPC version yet.

Unfortunately with all the collection we download from the web, Microsoft Reader provide minimal way to catagorized and organized our beloved eBooks, they are only lined up in the library as one collection.