Project
Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ is one of the most awesome websites for readers. With more than
36.000 eBooks (copyright-free) it has literally tons of reading stuff for your
eBook reader. Gutenberg now supports Kindle (mobi) and ePub (e.g. iPad) and many
more formats in addition to more traditional formats like html. Particularly if
you want to keep a lot of books on your mobile device but you don’t have a lot
of storage the ePub format is very handy as it is basically a zipped html file
with typically less than 200KB for an
average book and less than half the size of other eBook formats (see image for
comparison).
Apart from support
for different mobile eReaders Project Gutenberg has more mobile friendly features.
It has a mobile friendly website http://m.gutenberg.org as well as QR-codes for every item,
in case you want to transfer the URL of a book directly from your computer
screen to your mobile device.
If you
think it can’t get any more comfortable then try the new free Aldiko Reader for
Android. It now supports in-app browsing
of online eBook catalogues and libraries. To use this feature you need to
specify the url in the “My catalogs” menu. If you want to use Gutenberg it’s
best to use the above mobile url and you are ready to browse Gutenberg by
title, author, genre and language. If your local library has started lending
eBooks you can “take out” books from there as well.
Aldiko Reader
is one of the best free eBook readers available for Android. It is ideal for
English classes as it features an integrated dictionary, bookmarks as well as
send and share passages to notetaking apps, email and social networks.
