Linux And Friends

Amazon Kindle is a very good substitute for printed books and magazines. Amazon has announced in a press release that Kindle and Kindle App customers can  now borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 local libraries in the United States.

A few days back, while rummaging through my trunk, I laid my hands on a rare book. The book is “Punch Digest”. It is an out of print joke book which specialized in tasteful humor. It contains over a hundred pages of funny jokes and cartoons that is sure to break you into peals of [...]

FBReader is a Free and open source e-book reader targeted at Linux, Windows, and Android users. Currently, FBReader works on Linux desktop, Windows XP/Vista/7, FreeBSD, and various Linux based mobile devices. FBReader also has a clone named FBReaderJ which is an e-book reader for the Google Android platform. FBReaderJ is a Java based software as [...]

Calibre is an open source e-book management application. It is available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. Calibre can be used for the following tasks. Organizing your e-book collection Converting e-books from one format to another. Downloading news from websites transferring documents to and from devices (Kindle, Nook etc) and Viewing e-books

Now a days, information is readily available on the net. And most people find the content in Wikipedia very reliable and useful. Here is some good news. Now you can create your own customized book from the diverse articles in Wikipedia.

Web accessibility is a hot topic for web designers and users alike. For the former, it is a choice of following open standards and making sure that the websites they build are easy to navigate by its visitors and search engines alike. And for the latter (end users), it is a case of having a [...]

Here is a list of bicycle books which I have found really useful in my quest in using bicycle as a mode of transport. In fact, one thing I have realised is that it is just not enough if you merely learn to ride bicycles, rather you should also pick up essential skills in bicycle [...]

What do you do if you are too tired to sit down with a book and read, but at the same time you are tempted to read a novel or book? You ask someone close to you to read out the book. There is another way too which is to visit any of the sites [...]