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ALL THINGS The Free iPod + iPhone Book 4<br />
Books + Web Apps<br />
Free iPod/iPhone books and web<br />
apps are only a click or two away.<br />
eBooks + Test Prep for iPods<br />
Every year, a web site called Manybooks.net has<br />
grown its collection of free books, and now offers<br />
over 20,000, including Sun Tzu’s The Art of War,<br />
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,<br />
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The King James Bible,<br />
and much more. The books are formatted only for<br />
pre-2007 iPods, as well as the current iPod nano<br />
and iPod classic, and you’ll need to add them<br />
manually to your iPod: enable your iPod’s Disk<br />
Mode (see Personal Data + Files a few pages up),<br />
download a book, and then just drop its folder into<br />
your iPod’s Notes folder using Windows Explorer or<br />
the Mac’s Finder. You can find it under Extras ><br />
Notes. If you’re willing to pay for iPod reference<br />
materials, iPrepPress.com sells dictionaries and<br />
test prep guides, TalkingPanda.com has iBar ($30),<br />
a 1000-recipe iPod bartender, and Kaplan offers<br />
2008 SAT Prep software through the iTunes Store,<br />
with Reading, Writing, and Math selling for $5 each<br />
in the iPod Games section. The only problem: the<br />
above content does not work on the iPhone or iPod<br />
touch, and Apple makes no guarantee that support<br />
will be added. Don’t expect it; Apple’s moving on.<br />
iPhone Books + Web Apps<br />
For now, JPEGs, PDF files, and web pages are the<br />
ways to read books and magazines on the iPhone<br />
and iPod touch. Currently, you can e-mail images<br />
or PDF files to these devices, or open them through<br />
web sites, but you can’t save them in a folder and<br />
open them like old iPods’ Notes. If you’re willing to<br />
go through that work, Manybooks.net’s 20,000<br />
books (above) can be saved as free, no-frills PDFs,<br />
while many other publishers are offering eBook or<br />
simple text content through web sites. Scrollbox.<br />
org offers a number of iPhone-formatted books,<br />
while 101Cookbooks.com offers recipes. Apple<br />
maintains a list of web-based content at apple.<br />
com/webapps/, and <strong>iLounge</strong> has one at ilounge.<br />
com/index.php/software/iphone/. Notably, this<br />
content is subject to major changes, and sites<br />
tend to disappear after months; our iPhone/touchformatted<br />
Buyers’ Guides are here to stay online.<br />
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