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Harry Potter goes paperless

Go to the front page of an ebook store today and you will see on the front page what many people have been waiting for. Harry Potter is now available as an ebook. It took a long time, but on the front page of Amazon is Harry Potter for the Kindle, on the front page [...]

Why bookstores are in trouble

It is said bookstores today are in trouble. The Borders near our house closed last year. A lot of people might point to ebooks, but I really don’t think that is the issue, not entirely, not even the major factor really. Bookstores were in trouble long before ebooks became popular. The problem is selection, cost, [...]

Finding free books online

Some people are going to think this title is misleading. People, for example, who have come here looking for a place to download the latest best seller for free. That is not what this post is about, sorry. This post is about how to use the Internet to find books the books you want for [...]

Will the physical book really be dead in five years?

At the Technomy conference last week, Nicholas Negroponte made the prediction that the physical book would be dead in five years. It is a pretty bold prediction and even though Negroponte may be a very smart guy, his prediction is off base. I think the problem with his prediction is, he isn’t taking everything in [...]

Welcome to HANDebooks

HANDebooks has already been around for quite some time, but admittedly, it has been neglected. It was originally created as a collection of how to pages to document the steps I found to convert ebooks to formats I could read on my Palm Pilot. I created it, because I really liked reading books electronically and [...]