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I downloaded the ''Bookworm'' app from Market Place today. I've wanted an ebook reader on the HD2 for a while now, just never got round to it. I just wondered if anyone knew of any websites where I could download ebooks, preferably free ones!
Thx.
i dont know if your programm can read the offered formats (the ebook tab in 6.5.x roms can), but you can try the gutenberg project. they republish books that are free of copyrights because they are older then 70 years. so dont expect actual stuff, but a lot of classics.
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Doesnt bookworm allow you to download straight from project gutenberg?
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Doesnt bookworm allow you to download straight from project gutenberg?
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Yes, you're right, but I'm not into classic novels, I just want a straightforward book to read. I prefer non-fiction, auto-biographies etc.
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i dont know if your programm can read the offered formats (the ebook tab in 6.5.x roms can), but you can try the gutenberg project. they republish books that are free of copyrights because they are older then 70 years. so dont expect actual stuff, but a lot of classics.
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Thx for the reply.
The bookworm app gives direct access to the project gutenberg library, however I'm not into classical novels etc. I just want a straightforward read.
ebooks
i like fiction ebooks
Free books won't usually be real books or good books because it costs money to publish books, etc. and free doesn't cover those costs. You can download books for free but that is considered warez and we are not allowed to post that on the website. But just search on google for files such as .mobi, .pdf, .epub, and others like that...
as for free books - there's at least one author who publishes for free and earns a living on it: Cory Doctorow
Bookworm App for ebooks
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I downloaded the ''Bookworm'' app from Market Place today. I've wanted an ebook reader on the HD2 for a while now, just never got round to it. I just wondered if anyone knew of any websites where I could download ebooks, preferably free ones!
Thx.
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I know it's been awhile, but do you happen to have the cab file for Bookworm reader? I somehow lost it in between two rom update
Since I have got my Evo my activeness in reading comics has sky rocketed. I love being on the bus and reading something. I have an app for manga to keep me up on the last chapters, and then also Dailycomix for popular webcomics like Penny arcade, xkcd, and cyanid and happiness.
My question though...Is there an app so that I can conveniently read webcomics that are not popular enough to have their own apps? Like comics hosted from smackjeeves.com?
im in 11th grade and want to read an interesting book to expand my mind. I normally don't read.EVER.. but since I have gotten my xoom I wanna give it a chance. I wanna read a good book. not some boring book I would usually read in school for example lord of the flies..boring. someone suggest a book I might like and enjoy. I tend to like horror,comedy, and adventure stories
What reader program are you using? Kindle, Nook, Google. Aldiko? Some access thousands of free books, most published before 1923 (a lot of great books, but maybe not what you're looking for) so if you go for new books through Nook and Kindle for example, you'll have to buy them. My daughter has been tearing through Ellen Hopkins books (Crank, Identical, Burn) but they seem a bit depressing to me, and maybe more appealing to girls (who seem to love drama, lol). If you like horror, you might like H. P. Lovecraft--available for free.
i was gonna use Google books. I've never really been into books that much because all the books we read in school are extremely boring. I wanna find a book that has mystery and suspense..something that will make me wanna actually read more of it instead of just putting the book down.
I am Legend by Richard Matheson is fantastic, and it's a fairly short book (and quite different from the movie in ways that make you care about the protagonist a million times more). That should be a good introduction. After that, it helps to know what interests you. Science fiction? Fantasy? It seems you probably want some form of fiction to begin with, anyway.
Definitely check out I am Legend.
Or perhaps Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman. It's a series of short stories and, in all likelihood, you'll enjoy his writing style and that will encourage you to check out his other books (I recommend Neverwhere).
Black Man by Richard Morgan is a thriller set in the near future that you may like. Quite a bit of mystery, if I recall and it's a good read.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is also excellent; another sci-fi book.
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Some advice... when looking for books, I always try and read the first chapter to see if I take an instant liking to it. This helps a great deal in finding books that I want to finish. Usually, bookshops have seating areas for reading, but it's even easier with ebooks - as I understand, Google provide extracts or the first chapter before you buy. Try before you buy.
Horror: Dan Simmons - Summer of Night - fun and creepy
Horror: Dean Koontz - Watchers - fast moving & especially great if you love dogs
Sci-fi : Orson Scott Card - Enders Game - a classic
1984 is a pretty good book
My favorite book in the last decade has been ""A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.
It's informative and funny.
Try it out, you'll be glad you did.
Also +1 for Ender's Game
If you have seen and enjoyed the movie Fight Club, check out Chuck Palahniuk's other books. They usually have you saying 'WTF' until the very end.
If you like the twilight movies try the twilight series. Or the Harry Potter series as I'm sure many people can tell you the books normally are better then the movies.
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Well, my 2 cents.
I think nobody should die without having read To Kill a Mockingbird from Harper Lee. It's one of the best books I have ever read, although being somehow old (60's or something).
I have read tons of books, and have loved almost all of them. I don't know. Some come fast to my mind: 1984, Christine (I love this one, as I do love cars), Jurassic Park, etc.
I enjoy books from Dean R Koontz (Horror), Michael Crichton (all kind), Robin Cook (medical related), Ken Follet, Stephen King, etc.
I really hope you find something interesting to read.
Regards.
incrediblenotinstock said:
im in 11th grade and want to read an interesting book to expand my mind. I normally don't read.EVER.. but since I have gotten my xoom I wanna give it a chance. I wanna read a good book. not some boring book I would usually read in school for example lord of the flies..boring. someone suggest a book I might like and enjoy. I tend to like horror,comedy, and adventure stories
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Moneyball by Michael Lewis is definitely my recommendation!
It starts from baseball but larger than baseball.
I got a quick review and link is here.
http://www.opinionatedfool.com/2011/05/book-review-moneyball-art-of-winning.html
Everyone so far has had great suggestions. Any of those books would be a great start. Another sci-fi book I've enjoyed (and is much better than the movie) is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Well, I've started learning Java and I read somewhere that Java is used to program apps for Android. Now, I'm not looking to make complex games and apps, more like a "database" app to store data and maybe some form of note taking application to start off with. Can you guys recommend reading material, tutorials and programs to further my eduction? I've hit a bit of a rough spot so far.
Android has a notepad tutorial you can start there for free lol
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.html
And when I started most people said "Hello, Android" was the best for beginners.
You can also check www.apress.com they have a decent array for books for android,java...etc Any of those books can be purchased from them directly or from amazon.com
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Android has a notepad tutorial you can start there for free lol
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.html
And when I started most people said "Hello, Android" was the best for beginners.
You can also check www.apress.com they have a decent array for books for android,java...etc Any of those books can be purchased from them directly or from amazon.com
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The Apress books are very helpful with the examples in code. It helped me a lot and it still does. I've got Beginning Android 2. I didn't read the book from a to z, I just started trying stuff and search a lot on the internet, there are a lot of examples out there.
my favorite eclipse/java learning tips
i spent 25+ years developing on mainframes, then windows pcs, and now phones! what a ride!
my biggest hurdle was transforming my development thinking style from linear (fortran-77, Macro-32, pascal, assembler...) to the object-oriented mode. Classes, instantiation, "this", blew me away for awhile....ok, still does sometimes...
I programmed for the windows mobile phone for 2 years and wrote most of the stuff in lua. You can see some of the windows mobile clocks i designed here:
http://cid-cac4c4d76bc3616d.photos.live.com/browse.aspx/Windows%20Mobile%20Phone%20Development
here are the books and web sites that have helped me the most:
"Hello, Android", The Pragmatic Programmers, Ed Burnette, ISBN: 978-1-93435-656-2
"Beginning Android Application Development", Wrox, Wei-Meng Lee, ISBN: 978-1-118-01711-1
here are several great web sites:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/package-summary.html
http://developer.android.com/resources/browser.html?tag=article
and a website with lots of examples:
http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Android/CatalogAndroid.htm
I hope those help.
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i spent 25+ years developing on mainframes, then windows pcs, and now phones! what a ride!
my biggest hurdle was transforming my development thinking style from linear (fortran-77, Macro-32, pascal, assembler...) to the object-oriented mode. Classes, instantiation, "this", blew me away for awhile....ok, still does sometimes...
I programmed for the windows mobile phone for 2 years and wrote most of the stuff in lua. You can see some of the windows mobile clocks i designed here:
http://cid-cac4c4d76bc3616d.photos.live.com/browse.aspx/Windows Mobile Phone Development
here are the books and web sites that have helped me the most:
"Hello, Android", The Pragmatic Programmers, Ed Burnette, ISBN: 978-1-93435-656-2
"Beginning Android Application Development", Wrox, Wei-Meng Lee, ISBN: 978-1-118-01711-1
here are several great web sites:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/package-summary.html
http://developer.android.com/resources/browser.html?tag=article
and a website with lots of examples:
http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Android/CatalogAndroid.htm
I hope those help.
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Thanks a million. I will definitely be buying those books, and thanks for the extra links!
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mncessna said:
i spent 25+ years developing on mainframes, then windows pcs, and now phones! what a ride!
my biggest hurdle was transforming my development thinking style from linear (fortran-77, Macro-32, pascal, assembler...) to the object-oriented mode. Classes, instantiation, "this", blew me away for awhile....ok, still does sometimes...
I programmed for the windows mobile phone for 2 years and wrote most of the stuff in lua. You can see some of the windows mobile clocks i designed here:
http://cid-cac4c4d76bc3616d.photos.live.com/browse.aspx/Windows Mobile Phone Development
here are the books and web sites that have helped me the most:
"Hello, Android", The Pragmatic Programmers, Ed Burnette, ISBN: 978-1-93435-656-2
"Beginning Android Application Development", Wrox, Wei-Meng Lee, ISBN: 978-1-118-01711-1
here are several great web sites:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/package-summary.html
http://developer.android.com/resources/browser.html?tag=article
and a website with lots of examples:
http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Android/CatalogAndroid.htm
I hope those help.
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Cool work by the way
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Thanks a million guys ,you've all been extremely helpful!
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Guys, is it better to study java first or go straight to android codes?
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Guys, is it better to study java first or go straight to android codes?
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I'd not wrote any code in java before I've started building apps for android. Only experience with VHDL, TCL, Makefiles and the basis of C++ and visual basic.
I think it is good to know the basis of Java and OOP but not necessary to be a java pro before you can start with android.
I've learned most from just start with simple android examples an try to understand what they do. If you have a question look on the internet and if you can't find the answer, just ask the question. There are a lot people willing to help.
I usually use the stackoverflow website (http://stackoverflow.com) to post my questions and looking for answers. When you'll be deep in development, these guys will be useful
Hi there, I'm actually promoting my android game, and found it hard to find some reviewers, so I came with the idea that it could be great to start a thread to make a list of all the websites who reviews apps and games.
If you know some and you find the idea interesting, post the website you know as an answer to this thread and I will update my post :
- 148apps
- TechCrunch
- Gizmodo
- TheNextWeb
- Pocketgamer.biz
- And of course, XDA
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gamedev
gcup
trashbox
reddit
slideme
androidforums
androidcentral
androidpit
androidcommunity
4pda (just Russian)
droidforums
attdroids
everythingandroid
androidtablets
(Sorry for bad english, not a native speaker)
You can find a pretty good list of app review sites on androidb.com
http://www.androidb.com/2013/07/android-review-sites-the-ultimate-list-to-help-market-your-app/
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TheKing1997 said:
You can find a pretty good list of app review sites on androidb.com
http://www.androidb.com/2013/07/android-review-sites-the-ultimate-list-to-help-market-your-app/
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That's a nice list, but the author use it to sell another list, which, in my opinion, should be free.
Pocketgamer.biz
Hi, You can go through appstimes.in which review your iphone, ipad, android, windows apps.
You can also try http://www.androidappsreview.com/
This site can give you good traffic.
gamedev
gcup
trashbox
reddit
slideme
androidforums
androidcentral
androidpit
androidcommunity
4pda (just Russian)
droidforums
attdroids
everythingandroid
androidtablets
Helpfull site list, I will use it
Nice list
Nice List, I have been scouring the internet to find good ones.
I'm glad to find this topic. I was thinking to open a separare one, but this one correlates with my question, so I'll ask it here.
Any Android gaming forums that covers upcoming game out there?
Does anyone know any decent Android forums devoted to gaming (with upcoming games section) like TouchArcade for iOS? I mean with daily activity like on TouchArcade.
(except those already mentioned - they don't have active 'Upcoming Games' sections)
Good list
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Hi there, I'm actually promoting my android game, and found it hard to find some reviewers, so I came with the idea that it could be great to start a thread to make a list of all the websites who reviews apps and games.
If you know some and you find the idea interesting, post the website you know as an answer to this thread and I will update my post :
- 148apps
- TechCrunch
- Gizmodo
- TheNextWeb
- And of course, XDA
(Sorry for bad english, not a native speaker)
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thanks for sharing bro
http://www.androidrundown.com/
http://apps4review.com/
http://www.androidshock.com/contact/
http://crazymikesapps.com/app-developers/
http://appsplit.com/blog/submit-an-app/
http://www.newappsreview.com/submit-your-app/
http://www.pocket-lint.com/contact-us
http://www.smartkeitai.com/contact/
http://www.androidencyclopedia.com/contact-us/
http://www.androidsocialmedia.com/about-2/suggest-content
http://getandroidstuff.com/submit-app/
http://101bestandroidapps.com/auth/contact
http://www.droid-life.com/contact/
http://www.148apps.com/
http://androidcommunity.com/send-tips/
http://www.androidapplog.com/suggest-app/
http://appmodo.com/category/reviews/
http://phandroid.com/contact/#cforms_captcha6
http://androidandme.com/contact/
http://androidspin.com/application-review-request/
http://appstouse.com/submit-app-for-review
http://www.100bestandroidapps.com/contact
http://www.askyourandroid.com/request-for-review/
http://apps400.com/submit-your-application-for-review
http://latestandroidapps.net/submit-android-app/
http://www.appsapk.com/submit-app/
http://www.androidguys.com/submit-your-android-app-or-game/
http://www.androidappsreview.com/submit-your-android-app/
http://www.appszoom.com/developers/login
http://www.formstack.com/forms/envato-appstorm_review
http://www.androidtapp.com/get-reviewed/
http://www.talkandroid.com/contact-us/
http://www.lifeofandroid.com/submit-an-app/
Good list, and it includes sites that people actually visit. However, imo reviews outside of the app stores don't mean a great deal. You'll get much further by putting your app in front of the right people and having them talk about it, embedding social features in your app to encourage people to talk about it, encouraging good reviews and managing bad reviews (offering good support is one way to do this).
Honestly, these lists are quite outdated.
As soon as I finish sending emails around I will post an updated spreadsheet on our website.