|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
mike What box?
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134
|
Posted: 7/6/2006, 9:04 am Post subject: Download free eBooks |
|
|
|
|
...through August 4, 2006, at least...
From Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library. http://worldebookfair.com/ _________________ [/size] |
|
Back to top |
|
|
heather
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 266 Location: Mesa
|
Posted: 7/6/2006, 9:53 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Thanks for posting this link. They have some pretty interesting reads. Now the challenge is to see how long I can actually sit at my computer and read........ |
|
Back to top |
|
|
paintninaz
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 3515
|
Posted: 7/6/2006, 10:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
or you could print them off....depends on how much paper you want to use.
OR...I also noticed they had some audiobooks for download...MP3 format...pretty cool! _________________ ~Tracy
“Friends make the bad times good — and the good times unforgettable.” |
|
Back to top |
|
|
heather
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 266 Location: Mesa
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 2:52 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Audio books are pretty cool. Those I listen to in the blazer if I have a long drive. I used to check them out from the library. Apache Junctions library isn't big at all, but they sure do get the newest releases of movies/cd's pretty quick. I am there at least 3 times a week. I love to read. It feeds your brain....and I definitely need that... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 6:50 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
I use the audio books also, on tape or CD. "Cold Mountain" was the better that way than the movie, and the movie was pretty darn good to.
Phoenix has Interlibrary Loan, if you know what you want and are patient, they will order it up from all over the country. I listened to "The Agony and the Exstacy" from a library in Alaska. "Cadillac Desert" is pretty good also.
They are great for long drives, the time and miles just melt away. Also if you commute, NPR is ok but it gets old also. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Arizonaheat Got Supes Juice?
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1741 Location: Mesa, AZ
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 8:17 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
We have Into Thin Air to listen to when we go to Colorado and I will snag some of your suggestions. Thanks _________________ Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
heather
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 266 Location: Mesa
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 4:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
I DID notice that they had audio downloads.
Cold Mountain IS a pretty cool flick. I am going to have to look out for that. My library does interlibrary loans. I'm going to check into that more.
I am currently storing all my cassettes onto my computer (don't know the technical name for this, just know how to do it).
Into thin air I have never heard of.Sometimes just to kick it up a notch I will toss in a Blue Collar Comedy Tour cd or a cd from just on of them (Bill, Larry, Ron or Jeff). My favorite is Bill Engvall. He gets me every time, especially w/ his family jokes. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
BoyNhisDog The dangerous place where the winds meet
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1375 Location: Tucson
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 5:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Heather, Into Thin Air was the most riviting horror story I have ever read. It was all real and it happened in the outdoors as well. I read Cold Mountain twice. _________________ Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
- Andre Gide |
|
Back to top |
|
|
heather
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 266 Location: Mesa
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 5:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Pulled up Into Thin Air on a search. No, I have never seen/read or heard it. I will be looking for it. Thanks |
|
Back to top |
|
|
IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 6:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
I can't watch Cold Mountain wid anybody around'n I dun seen it 40 times. I lubs Renee Zelleger; she plum my kina gal in that'un.
BTW, my father has a house right there at Cold Mountain and I'm going hiking there in October. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
|
Back to top |
|
|
heather
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 266 Location: Mesa
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 7:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Rub it in , rub it in......LOL
You sounded just like them in the movie.
I was very impressed w/ her acting in that movie. I laughed a lot thinking, "Is she really acting like that?" Just goes to show how talented some people are. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Trishness The Snake Charmer
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2530 Location: Apache Jct, AZ
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 8:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Love audio books although there is a certain pleasure just curling up in a comfy chair with a good book too!
heather wrote: |
Rub it in , rub it in......LOL
You sounded just like them in the movie.
|
Nothing beats stopping off in a small town gas station in Alabama or Mississippi and asking for directions. At 2 AM. The guy gave me directions but I couldn't understand a single thing he said. And it made "don the rood a spell" take on new meaning. _________________ ~~~Trish~~~
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
heather
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 266 Location: Mesa
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 8:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Now thems is the real laid back country folk. Was he wearing overalls? I love those. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
heather
Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 266 Location: Mesa
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 8:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Sorry , didn't see the top part of your post. I only use the audio books in the blazer on teh road. I do read a lot at home. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
|
Posted: 7/7/2006, 8:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Trishness wrote: |
Love audio books although there is a certain pleasure just curling up in a comfy chair with a good book too!
heather wrote: |
Rub it in , rub it in......LOL
You sounded just like them in the movie.
|
Nothing beats stopping off in a small town gas station in Alabama or Mississippi and asking for directions. At 2 AM. The guy gave me directions but I couldn't understand a single thing he said. And it made "don the rood a spell" take on new meaning. |
Next time you're travelin' in Dixie and you need translation you just call me. I speak all of it very well. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Back to top
|
|