Tea and Ebooks

[niisonge]

Does everyone have a Kindle yet? I don't. I still like the tactile
feel of pages, plus the color and typography in printed books.

But... sometimes it's nice to read a digital version for those
longhauls, waits at the airport, etc.

There are a few tea ebooks for free download here in any format you
like (Kindle, Iphone, etc.):
http://manybooks.net/

[Space Cowboy]

Google Books has an extensive collection of books about tea. I use it
quite a bit. For example I have the hardcopy of The Culture and
Marketing of Tea by Harler Second Edition 1956. It is only available
to view in Snippet ie photocopy. Search pu-erh and you will see the
referenced passage which is the earliest Ive found. There is a 1933
edition and Im not sure if it is there. Most of my Chinese
dictionaries are cataloged. I use it for key word search and flip to
the page in my hardcopy. I understand the copyright downside to this
approach. I see presses printing new editions of old books from
online demand requiring print. I think a great boon if using a
library is familiar to you.

Jim

[Lewis Perin]

niisonge <niis...@yahoo.com> writes:

> Does everyone have a Kindle yet?

Not I.

> I don't. I still like the tactile feel of pages, plus the color and
> typography in printed books.

Me too. Plus, it irks me to think of paying money, not for ownership
of the book, but merely for the right to view it on one particular
device that could die or become obsolete.

> But... sometimes it's nice to read a digital version for those
> longhauls, waits at the airport, etc.

Right. For that, I have public domain books that I can read on my smartphone.

/Lew
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Lew Perin / pe...@acm.org
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[teapandya]

Thanks for the link!
Jayesh S Pandya