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Voluminous: app for organizing, fetching and sharing public domain books
Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 25, 2008 7:14 PM | permalink
Voluminous is a subscription-based public domain book delivery program. Once you buy the app, it'll let you know 
whenever likely books are scanned and put online; they also keep a bookmarkable library for you.


    There are literally tens of thousands of books. Voluminous makes it faster and easier to find the ones you want. 
Would you rather waste your time hunting around for them, or have Voluminous do it for you?

    Voluminous also:

    * Will tell you when new books are available
    * Keeps automatic bookmarks for each book in your personal library. If you read a book on a webpage, your web 
browser will only bookmark that web page (typically, the start of the book), not where you've read to.
    * Tracks which books you're currently reading, for quick access
    * Takes "plain text" and turns it into a beautifully laid-out book in the 
style you choose
    * Offers full-screen mode for distraction-free reading
    * Has tools to share interesting books with friends

    These are just some of the advantages of using Voluminous.

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#1 posted by mrklingon , April 25, 2008 8:14 PM

Not quite the same thing, but for Windows users there is this - 
http://www.spacejock.com/yBook.html

It's a freeware pdb, text, html and rtf ebook reader - has a nifty "Gutenberg project" feature that will download the 
latest Gutenberg listing - then you can search it and download any book.

Lets you customize the look of the book, do full screen, etc.
Take a look at this
#2 posted by fulltext , April 25, 2008 9:27 PM

Another alternative is NetBook. Written in Adobe Air and cross-platform, it lets you search the Gutenberg database, 
download and read/listen to ebooks and audiobooks. Available here -

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1328518
Take a look at this
#3 posted by proto , April 25, 2008 10:46 PM

I use FBReader, which comes installed by default on the EEE, and seems to be as good as it gets for Linux. Does most of 
what Voluminous seems to, apart from integrating with Gutenberg, and supports plenty of formats.

Leopard has a number of features that make life easier for devs. More Mac 
apps that you'd think are Leopard only.
Take a look at this
#8 posted by semiotix , April 26, 2008 10:25 AM

For me, the ability to convert xyz format into pdfs is the important thing, since I already have an ebook reader -- the 
iRex iLiad. I currently use a hacked-up program I wrote to convert rtf, txt, and html to pdf, which compensates for 
various incompatible codings of accented and other characters such as left- and right-quotes and em- and en-dashes, as 
well as the txt craziness of one-paragraph-per-line or one-line-per-line.