Any Google Book fans out there? For those of you who download books to portable devices, Google Books has some great news! According to the Inside Google Books, they're now offering free downloads of public domain works in EPUB, an additional format that will display better on portable devices!
More people are turning to new reading devices to access digital books, and many such phones, netbooks, and e-ink readers have smaller screens that don't readily render image-based PDF versions of the books we've scanned. EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform to these smaller screens. And because EPUB is a free, open standard supported by a growing ecosystem of digital reading devices, works you download from Google Books as EPUBs won't be tied to or locked into a particular device.
Digital book lovers rejoice!
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