Does anyone have a Kindle and have you found any free to download railway books?
Tomlinson available here:-
http://www.archive.org/details/northeas ... 00tomluoft
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Re: Kindle
Not a Kindle, but I do have Adobe Digital Editions reader for my Mac laptop and the iPhone equivalent.
I have never really thought about searching for railway books, but I might have a look. I tend to read cheap biographies of people on screen, because my house is groaning under the weight of books already and I am too lazy to use the local library (if it is still open).
I have never really thought about searching for railway books, but I might have a look. I tend to read cheap biographies of people on screen, because my house is groaning under the weight of books already and I am too lazy to use the local library (if it is still open).
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Re: Kindle
The free books are almost always out of copyright - eg. the Gutenberg collection. So it can be a great way of catching up on classics!
I don't use the Kindle itself, but I have the Kindle software on the iPad - and I prefer it to the Apple iBook software. I do have Tomlinson but as that is a scanned PDF, it is very large and not the best book for eReaders - also being a PDF, I have to use the iBook reader. Not the best combination.
These ebook readers work best with novels where the flexible formatting doesn't matter. I have quite a few computer text books on the iPad. Seemed a great idea at the time (instantly save a few feet of bookcase space) but navigating can be difficult (I'm a multi-fingered textbook reader), and diagrams often aren't perfect.
Along similar lines, there's Zinio for electronic magazines. They have quite a few railway magazines - considerably cheaper than paying airmail for those of us who are overseas!
Richard
I don't use the Kindle itself, but I have the Kindle software on the iPad - and I prefer it to the Apple iBook software. I do have Tomlinson but as that is a scanned PDF, it is very large and not the best book for eReaders - also being a PDF, I have to use the iBook reader. Not the best combination.
These ebook readers work best with novels where the flexible formatting doesn't matter. I have quite a few computer text books on the iPad. Seemed a great idea at the time (instantly save a few feet of bookcase space) but navigating can be difficult (I'm a multi-fingered textbook reader), and diagrams often aren't perfect.
Along similar lines, there's Zinio for electronic magazines. They have quite a few railway magazines - considerably cheaper than paying airmail for those of us who are overseas!
Richard
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