Handy tools and links for ebooks and ebook readers

[sally_maria]

I've noticed that ebook readers are becoming increasingly popular, both for reading new published fiction and also online text such as fanfiction. I bought mine a year or so ago, and have found it incredibly useful.

One vital piece of software I've found is Calibre, an open-source, multi-platform ebook management application. It's a lot more flexible that the one that came with my Sony Reader and has the advantage of not being tied to Windows.

I haven't got into using an ebook reader on my iPod, but for those of you who like to read on their phones/tablets alitalf recommends Aldiko for Android devices.

If you are looking for sources of things to read there are several sites offering public domain or other free ebooks to download. Try Feedbooks, ManyBooks.net and Project Gutenberg. If anyone has any other suggestions for free ebook sites, do comment with them.

There's also the MobileRead forums, to discuss readers, ebooks and software.

( For those of us who also like to use our readers for fanfiction, there are some very useful sites for that as well under the cut. )