Reading E-Books
Reading E-Books is not as hard as it seems...
Getting used to reading Electronic Books takes a bit of mind alteration, especially for folks born before the Edsel. Here are a few attacks that you can choose from:
Simply read the E-Book off your computer screen after you have pushed the “Download” button and saved it.
Or convert the file to one of the popular E-Readers like Amazon’s Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook. In a few years, these gadgets will be as universal as iPods and cell phones.
Or read the book directly off a cell phone, iPhone, Blackberry etc.
Or print out the book and read it in manuscript form on paper.
Or use Melissa DeFilippi’s method of converting the book into a normal size, two-sided real book (this method uses only one-quarter the amount of paper that the manuscript takes).
Melissa’s method—How to print a book:
- Go to the Authors Page here at Brown Fedora Books
- Select a book and download
- Open document, hit "file" then "print"
- Under page handling, select "booklet print" for page scaling
- Under page handling, select "front side only" for booklet subset
- Under print range, make sure the "reverse order box" is NOT checked (so front page prints first)
- Print the document
- Place the printed document into your paper fee tray so that you can print on the back side of the document. This may vary by printer e.g. for my printer, I place the document in the tray printed side up and the top of the page is on the right side
- Under page handling, select "booklet print" for page scaling
- Under page handling, select "backside only" for booklet subset
- Under print range, make sure the "reverse order box" IS checked (so back page prints first)
- Print the document
- Manually reverse the pages - i.e. put the first page on the bottom
- The document will now read like a book when you fold it in half
- Bring the document to Staples or other copy center
- They will cut the document down the middle, place the left side on top of the right and bind it. You can also have them put a front and back cover on it to protect the pages.
- Enjoy a good book on paper!
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