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Evening reading with the iPod Touch

Here’s a new sight around our house this summer: My 11 year old son reading in bed using his iPod Touch. He just finished reading “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson over the weekend thanks to Project Gutenberg, and is now starting “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. These are two of the required summer reading [...]

Convert PDF files into eBooks

While it is possible to read a PDF file on a smartphone in its original format, I’ve found to be MUCH easier and flexible to convert PDF files into eBook-formatted documents and read them on the smaller screen of a smartphone. This post explains how to do this using free, cross-platform software tools.
On my own [...]