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This book was written for the One Laptop Per Child project to explain to teachers and students alike how to make effective use of free e-books. However, most of the material in the book will be of interest to anyone who wants to do things with e-books. The book covers where to find free e-books, what formats of e-books are available, how to make e-books in every format, and how to get them published, either using your own book server or through sites like Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and even the Kindle Store. It also covers how you can make an e-book out of a printed book, how to know if a book is in the public domain, how to build your own high speed book scanner, how to use Booki to collaborate on writing an e-book on the web, and more. It's everything you always wanted to know about e-books (but were afraid to ask).

When I wrote this book I did not just compile information from other sources. I did everything I describe in the book. I created donations for the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and Project Gutenberg Canada. I published five books on the Kindle Store. I wrote some of the e-book finding and reading software described in the book. I installed all the Book Server software described in the book, and I installed my own Booki. I designed and built my own book scanner. I wrote books using Booki, and assisted with the translation of one of them. I also read a lot of free e-books, in every format. I think I've done everything you could do with e-books except actually make money on the Kindle Store. I'm still working on that one!

There's a e-book revolution coming and if you want to be a part of it this book will start you on your way!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005BYST5I
Publisher ‏ : ‎ FLOSS Manuals (8 July 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8211 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe

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James Simmons has programmed professionally since 1978. Back then computer programs were made using a special machine that punched holes into cards, reels of tape were the most common data storage medium, and hard disks were so expensive and exotic that the hard disk inventory of a Fortune 500 company would today be considered barely large enough to hold a nice picture of Jessica Alba.

The industry has come a long way since then, and to a lesser extent so has James.

James learned to program at Oakton Community College in Morton Grove, Illinois and Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. Times were hard back then and a young man's best chance of being employed after graduation was to become an Accountant or a Computer Programmer. It was while he attended OCC that James saw a Monty Python sketch about an Accountant who wished to become a Lion Tamer. This convinced James that he should become a Computer Programmer.

James' studies at WIU got off to a rough start when he signed up for Basic Assembly Language as his first real computer class, erroneously thinking that the word "Basic" meant "for beginners". From the computer's point of view it was basic, but for students not so much. He barely passed the course with a "D" but in the process learned that he enjoyed programming computers. He decided to continue his computer studies and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Information Science.

James was born in 1956, the year before Sputnik went up. He was a nerdy kid. At various times he fooled around with Erector sets, chemistry sets, microscopes, dissecting kits, model cars, model planes, model rockets, amateur radio, film making, and writing science fiction stories. He achieved no real success with any of these activities.

James participated in the first Give One Get One promotion of the One Laptop Per Child project and started developing Activities for the Sugar platform soon after. He has written the Activities Read Etexts, View Slides, Sugar Commander and Get Internet Archive Books.

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