Electronic Book Reviews

Ebook reviews

August 10, 2011
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Buying books at online stores

Many online book stores list an ebook along with the hard copy of the book for sale. The ebook can be read using a ebook reader available.
The advantages of buying a ebook are:
1. Faster delivery
2. Can be stored electronically

Unfortunately for most popular books there does not seem to be much difference in the cost of the printed version and ebook version.

June 21, 2011
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Pool Resurfacing

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Pool Resurfacing

Pool resurfacing has not changed much as far as the application process, however the products that go into the application have. This is a major decision for most pool owners when considering the surface that is right for you.

June 12, 2011
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Earth4Energy review

Earth4Energy provides a step by step guide to building your own solar electricity generation system.

It covers the various aspects like

  • Determining the power consumption of your home appliances and sizing your solar system accordingly
  • Insolation maps
  • Basics of photovoltaic cells 
  • Differents components/ parts used
  • Sizing / selection of wires, PV cells, batteries
  • Wiring diagram / series / parallel connection

Fairly comprehensive, but some parts like the maps are not universally applicable.

June 6, 2011
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Earth4Energy ebook review – Part 1

Earth4Energy is one of the several ebooks available on how to build a solar system yourself at home.

It is sold at Clickbank and costs $49.97 . The shipping costs for the CD are $5.95 .

Before you purchase the eBook, you have to provide your Name and email address. After you provide your contact and payment details, you are forwarded to an upsell page with an option to upgrade. After payment, if you do not upgrade, you are redirected to the member page where you can download the ebooks and access the videos .

May 25, 2011
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is one of the more popular sources of ebooks.

At present it has a listing of more than 30,000 ebooks.

They are available in different formats like

HTML

EPUB (with images)

EPUB (without images)

Kindle (with images)

Kindle (without images)

Plain text UTF-8

The file sizes for some of books are smallest for EPUB (without images)  and  largest for  Kindle (with images)

May 15, 2011
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Ebooks

Ebooks are becoming increasingly popular due to their lower cost of publication compared to printed books.  However,  the ebooks can be read only using a computer or a specialized ebook reader, which greatly reduces the portability of the ebook vis a vis other books.