alexanderjames
Puritan Board Sophomore
I assume most e-readerers are already well accustomed to all the free material that is available for their e-readers.
As a newcomer myself, I am astonished at the quality that one can get for free in e-book format.
Therefore, for any newcomers to this format I would like to recommend the following:
Firstly, with regards to the classics (mainly of western society), I have found that one can download the Harvard Classics collection free in many places as individual items, or as one item in the Kindle store (Kindle only of course); and for fiction (and non-fiction) classics I found the website 'feedbooks' public domain section excellent for EPUB downloads (with nice cover art). (One may consult compiled lists of 'greatest novels' or 'Great Books of the Western World' online for ideas.) This particular 'feedbooks' website even had Puritan works like Thomas Watson's 'Beatitudes'. Please beware that many of these websites may include immoral books including ungodly cover images as with many secular websites. Other websites like Project Gutenberg can be useful if you know what you are looking for (for example, Aquinas' Summa Theologica).
Secondly, with regards to Christian reformed literature, there is the Monergism website, Chapel Library, CCEL and other Christian websites you may find good material at. For specifically Puritan literature, you should take a look at what has been made available by members of the Board in recent months, at the PuritanInn.com , where you can download EPUB editions of a huge number of Puritan and other non-conformist authors in their complete works. This is an astounding achievement in my estimation.
Use Calibre software (or other) on your PC to transfer these files to your device. For Kindle they will be converted, I recommend the AZW3 format.
(You can also download PDFs and either read them directly as PDFs or convert them into a more friendly format. However, this will require more formatting in software like Calibre, and you may encounter difficulties depending on how good the PDF is.)
If you have any further suggestions for good free e-book material, please do share. Tolle lege, as they say!
As a newcomer myself, I am astonished at the quality that one can get for free in e-book format.
Therefore, for any newcomers to this format I would like to recommend the following:
Firstly, with regards to the classics (mainly of western society), I have found that one can download the Harvard Classics collection free in many places as individual items, or as one item in the Kindle store (Kindle only of course); and for fiction (and non-fiction) classics I found the website 'feedbooks' public domain section excellent for EPUB downloads (with nice cover art). (One may consult compiled lists of 'greatest novels' or 'Great Books of the Western World' online for ideas.) This particular 'feedbooks' website even had Puritan works like Thomas Watson's 'Beatitudes'. Please beware that many of these websites may include immoral books including ungodly cover images as with many secular websites. Other websites like Project Gutenberg can be useful if you know what you are looking for (for example, Aquinas' Summa Theologica).
Secondly, with regards to Christian reformed literature, there is the Monergism website, Chapel Library, CCEL and other Christian websites you may find good material at. For specifically Puritan literature, you should take a look at what has been made available by members of the Board in recent months, at the PuritanInn.com , where you can download EPUB editions of a huge number of Puritan and other non-conformist authors in their complete works. This is an astounding achievement in my estimation.
Use Calibre software (or other) on your PC to transfer these files to your device. For Kindle they will be converted, I recommend the AZW3 format.
(You can also download PDFs and either read them directly as PDFs or convert them into a more friendly format. However, this will require more formatting in software like Calibre, and you may encounter difficulties depending on how good the PDF is.)
If you have any further suggestions for good free e-book material, please do share. Tolle lege, as they say!
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