Comments on: Read Project Gutenberg e-books with eTextReader

By: only_moin

only_moin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:45:39 +0000

i couldnt understand why people are having trouble with the txt format. for me its my favorite format , as it allows me to format the books’ text any-which way i want. its the only format that works for me. the first time, i generally open the book in microsoft word and change the background colour to grey and the font to size 18. then i sit back and read away by pressing the pgdn button. when i am done i just type my name at the end of the paragraph i am in and click save. the next time i need to read i just search my name in the text through Find and read away. i love the gutenberg books precisely because they are in txt format – and you never have to worry about the txt format going obsolete – it probably gonna stay around or be accessible for the next 100 years.
project gutenberg is a great site and i know nothing beats the feel of an actual/physical book – but atleast i get to read the books this way , many of which i wouldnt be able to afford.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:58:03 +0000

Thank you very much, I will try it. Although, you can copy it in word and save it as microsoft reader or pdf , than you can read it in any of those adobe or microsoft reader too

By: trytreed

trytreed — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:43:42 +0000

I found eTextReader via your article. (Fellnersoft’s google ranking must not be very high.) For reading, I now find eTextReader/txt preferable to Foxit/pdf.

By: Help to proof-read books with Project Gutenberg

Help to proof-read books with Project Gutenberg — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:17:40 +0000

[...] by the fact that there isn’t as yet a universally acceptable way of reading e-books. I previously profiled on GAS a text reader which is quite good and of course Amazon, Microsoft and Adobe all have e-book [...]

By: Linda Martin-Peoples

Linda Martin-Peoples — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:09:52 +0000

This definitely sounds like it will have a wide audience!

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:03:06 +0000

Well as I mentioned in the article, you can change the size and style of font so it is easier to read the e-book. I have found that eTextReader makes text files much nicer to look at and read.

By: Jalaj

Jalaj — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:51:50 +0000

I was too anxious to read Dracula but could not read 10% of it with the text format… The I tried with a PDF version available somewhere using “read Out Loud” feature of Adobe Reader but then also had it unfinished. But at least PDF was better than plain txt.

By: Sampi

Sampi — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:30:28 +0000

Nice find! I love project Gutenberg but I was always annoyed by the .txt format (reading 300 pages in this format is not so pleasant). I’ll start using it right away! :)