eBooks

[Zero Gravitas]

Since a few people on here have some sort of facility to read digital representations of text in one way or another[nb]For reading on a PC http://www.fbreader.org/downloads.php would be my choice.[/nb] a thread on the free editions, short-stories and tie-ins some writers are putting out.

I've mentioned Peter Watts previously, a few of his works are up for free download he even makes the argument that in the case of Blindsight it saved the novel from utter obscurity:

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

Most of the output of Cory Doctrow is available under Creative Commons licenses:

http://craphound.com/?cat=5

Ted Chiang was mentioned in the sci-fi thread, his excellent short story Exhalation[nb]also to eb found as an audiobook http://www.starshipsofa.com/20090227/starshipsofa-bsfa-nominee-2008-ted-chiang/[/nb] is available via nightshade books along with a few other stories including series of shorts by Paolo Bacigalupi that flesh out the setting of The Windup Girl:

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/downloads

The collection 'Ghost Stories of an Antiquary' by M. R. James which contains amongst others Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad and Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book is available on project gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8486

[Custard]

Ahh, nice idea for a thread indeed.

There's loads of magazine pdfs here - http://magazinesdownload. com

Far more enjoyable reading the likes of NME or Rolling Stone digitally, I think. Easier to ignore the huge mounds of shit and get to the good bits

[Zetetic]

Ted Chiang was mentioned in the sci-fi thread, his excellent short story Exhalation

Thanks for that, it was a lot better than the little I'd come across since that thread.

[waste of chops]

www.instapaper.com seems pretty cool if you've got a Kindle; you add a little bookmarklet to your computer's web browser and can use it to tag articles you want to read later (or you can tag articles from your phone's Twitter client if it supports it, or whatever). You can then copy them manually to your Kindle, or have them sent wirelessly for a small fee, or have them sent wirelessly for free providing your Kindle's connected by wifi. It seems to do a pretty good job of stripping extraneous crap (like comments, sidebars etc.) from articles too.

[TIAL]

The Life of Pi is free on iBooks today as part of their 12 Days of Christmas freebies thing.

[Koant]

www.instapaper.com seems pretty cool if you've got a Kindle; you add a little bookmarklet to your computer's web browser and can use it to tag articles you want to read later (or you can tag articles from your phone's Twitter client if it supports it, or whatever). You can then copy them manually to your Kindle, or have them sent wirelessly for a small fee, or have them sent wirelessly for free providing your Kindle's connected by wifi. It seems to do a pretty good job of stripping extraneous crap (like comments, sidebars etc.) from articles too.

I love instapaper and use it on Android with the HardCopy app. Note that it removes all the clutter by using Readability, a free service that also works as shortcut in your browser. I use it all the time on my computer.
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/