Σάββατο, 18 Μαΐου 2013

A List of Audiobook and eBook Resources

A List of Audiobook and eBook resources

  • Alibris.com - Over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books
  • Audiobookdownloads.org - audio book fanatics who want to help you find and download the very best audio books online
  • Audiobooks.net - Download 2 free audio books every day
  • AudioLiterate.com - Designed to make it as easy as possible to find great audiobook titles.
  • Baen Free Library - A number of Baen Books in electronic format
  • Bartleby.com - Unlimited access to books and information online free of charge
  • Bibliomania - Thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays
  • Blue Rectangle - Quick book reviews by real people on video
  • BookLamp.org - A service that matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles
  • BooksInMyPhone - Formatted ebooks that you can read from any java enable mobile phone
  • BooksShouldBeFree - Free MP3 audio books you can browse by category
  • Bookyards - Free books, education materials, information, and content
  • ChestofBooks - Free online books on various topics
  • Classic Short Stories - Dedicated to the short story and to those interested in reading light prose
  • Creative Commons Books - A list of works consisting of over 35,000 words that are or have been commercially available in hardcopy and have an ISBN
  • DailyLit - Too busy for books? Read them by email and RSS
  • Digital Book Index - Provides links to more than 128,000 title records
  • eBook Hood - An online library of electronic books available in various ebook formats
  • Etext Center - Over 2,100 publicly-available ebooks
  • Fairy Tales Collection - A collection of the world's fairy tales
  • FeedBooks - Made with e-paper devices in mind (Sony PRS-500 & iRex iLiad), Feedbooks is a complete experience for mobile reading
  • Free Classic AudioBooks - Free audio books in either mp3 format or m4b audio book format
  • Free Curricula Center - Develop and share textbooks, instructor guides, and other educational materials
  • Free Management Library - Complete, highly integrated library for nonprofits and for-profits
  • FullBooks - Thousands of full text free books
  • Getfreeebooks - A site where you can legally download free books
  • Global Text Project - Open content electronic textbooks
  • Gnooks - Discover new writers you will like
  • Google Book Search - Search the full text of books and discover new ones
  • GRE Audio Books - Study for the GRE Literature test with these free audio books
  • HowTo - Access free books, with no registration, no fees, no catch
  • Internet Book List - A comprehensive and easily accessible database of books
  • LearnOutLoud - Over 10,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos
  • Library2Go - Download best selling digital audio titles 24/7
  • Library Connection - Downloadable audio book catalog
  • LibriVox - Free audiobooks from the public domain
  • LiteralSystems - Free human-recorded audiobooks
  • Litsum - Free literature summaries
  • LookyBook - View, talk about, and buy from a diverse and rapidly expanding collection of picture books
  • ManyBooks.net - Free ebooks for your PDA, iPhone, or ebook reader
  • New Free Books - Links to free, legal, complete ebooks still covered by copyright
  • OCLC FictionFinder - Provides access to 2.8 million works of fiction
  • Online Magical Library - A number of ebooks about magic in many cultures
  • Open Text Book - A registry of open textbooks and text book material
  • O'Reilly Open Books Project - A number of Open Books with various forms of "open" copyright
  • Page By Page Books - Hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free
  • Paper Portitude - From the Grimm fairy tales, to the poems of Robert Frost, find your favorite classics here
  • Planet eBook - Free classic literature to download and share
  • PlanetPDF - Free PDF ebooks Archive
  • Podiobooks - Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule
  • Project Gutenberg - The oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet
  • PublicLiterature.org - Explore and utilize this collection of public domain books,poetry, tutorials and audio
  • Rare Book Room - Some of the world's greatest and rarest books, photographed at high resolution
  • Read Print - Thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast
  • Squashed Writers - All the books you ought to have read in their own words, but magically Squashed into half-hour short stories
  • The Assayer - One of the web's largest catalogs of free books where users can submit reviews
  • The Book Page - Provides free on-line classic and not-so-well known books, articles and more
  • The Dusty Library - Public domain books, poems and short stories
  • The Free Physics Textbook - This site publishes a free physics textbook in a number of different languages
  • The National Academies Press - Read more than 3,000 books online for free
  • The Online Books Page - Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web
  • The Open Library - A project that aims to provide universal access to all knowledge
  • Universal Digital Library - Access to over 1.5 million books online
  • What Should I Read Next - Enter a book you like and this site will suggest what you could read next
  • Whichbook - Gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood
  • Wikibooks - A collection of open-content textbooks
  • World eBook Library - Combined collections create world class Internet public access to over 75,000 free eBooks and eDocuments
  • Yudu - Read and publish magazines, newspapers, ebooks and more online for free
Source: librophile.com

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Σάββατο, 6 Απριλίου 2013

The importance of training - April 2013

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Δευτέρα, 3 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Translation tools: Knowing your own work style!



I've recently updated my list of the most useful and reliable translation / localisation tools. I look forward to your views, opinions and suggestions. So do feel free to post in your comments.

 



AnyCount is a time-saving solution for automatic counts in words, characters, lines, pages, and even custom units for all common file formats. AnyCount supports all on the commonly used file types. RTF, DOC, WPD, XLS, PPT, PPS, PDF, CSV, HTM, HTML, XML, MIF, TXT, ZIP, ODT, SDW, SXW, ODS, SDC, SXC, ODP, SDD, SXI, HLP, CHM files — all are supported by this single application.


Translation Office 3000
is an advanced accounting tool for freelance translators and small translation agencies. TO3000 easily and seamlessly integrates into the business life of professional freelance translators.

AnyLexic Terminology Management Software is a new generation of the terminology management programs, and is not tied to any particular terminology. It can help you on each stage of translation terminology management process, creation, editing, search, and exchange.



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Πέμπτη, 1 Νοεμβρίου 2012

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