Paulo Coelho Christmas Freebies

Did you fall in love with "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept"? Did "Veronika Decides to Die" change your life? Did you understand human nature better with "The Devil and Miss Prym"? If you have all these three titles of Paulo Coelho's On the Seventh Day trilogy, then you are indeed a Coelho fan. Best known as the best-selling author of "The Alchemist" and as one of the world's most influential writers, Paulo is also a strong advocate of file-sharing. So this Christmas season, Paulo Coelho is giving fans and bookworms the best present ever: free downloads of Paulo Coelho books right from his blog site!

Coelho aficionados, hurry! The free download of several titles is until the first week of January only. After that, the download page will be offline. Book titles in various languages are available in ePub, Mobipocket/Kindle, PDF, Sony Reader, and iLiad formats. Spread the Coelho love! HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you all!

Amazon Kindle 2: e-books reinvented

Have you gotten your hands on the new Kindle yet? Last month, I received e-mails from friends raving about Amazon’s new release, the Kindle 2. Like the original Amazon Kindle, it is a gadget that allows you to read e-books (electronic books). Unlike your average e-book in scroll-down PDF format, Kindle 2 lets you flip through the virtual pages like you do with real books.









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Amazon.com’s subsidiary Lab126 designed and released the first Amazon Kindle in the US on 19 November 2007. As both a software and hardware platform, the gadget has a screen on which the electronic pages are displayed. Contents may be downloaded on Amazon Whispernet, on which access is free but is available only in the US. In February 2009, Amazon released the Kindle 2, which is sold at US$359 each.




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According to reviews, the new version of Kindle has longer battery life and faster page refresh features. In addition, it has an audio option that allows readers with poor eyesight to have the text read out loud. Amazon.com also announced this March that they will be releasing a platform called “Kindle for iPhone.” An email-based service allows you to convert HTML, DOC, PDF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP documents to the format compatible with Kindle (AZW). New York Times bestsellers may be downloaded at approximately US$10, and classics at US$1.99 through the Amazon Kindle store. However, once you have downloaded, you may not transfer the files to another Kindle or any other device for proprietary reasons.


5 Reasons Why You Should Get an Amazon Kindle


• It’s compact. Its thickness ranges from 0.8-0.38 inches, making it sleek and quite portable. Say goodbye to your bulky hardbound!


• It has a 2 GB internal memory, which can hold up to 1,500 books. You’re going to be a walking bookshelf!


• If you’re a Stephen King fan, he wrote the novel UR, which is exclusive for Kindle 2.



• It comes with a New Oxford American Dictionary to make your word search more convenient.



• It’s like reading a real book, only much lighter.






5 Reasons Why You May Not Want to Get An Amazon Kindle



• It’s expensive! Enough said.



• If you’re the tactile reader, you’d probably want to stay old school. I like the smell of paper and the feel of paper under my fingertips. Also, dog-eared pages seem to add more character to my books.



• If you’re the sentimental type, the Kindle might look out of place in your bookshelf.



• You may have to wait for some titles to be available at the Kindle store before you can get your hands (or not—excuse the pun) on the books you want.



• You can’t put a Kindle over your face while dozing off at the beach.