I’d like to start a new feature here. A few times a week I would like to publish a Does anybody know? article. It will be a question that is ebook related and that needs an answer. It can be personal or aimed at the community at large. Our readers can then answer the question in the comments section.
Feel free to send me your question, as I can’t do it all by myself. I’m sure there are a lot of them out there. Your question can be esoteric or plain and simple. Newbies welcome!!!
I will start it off with this question, which is something I really want to know:
Does anybody know of an ebook edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall that isn’t so cluttered with footnotes that it makes ereading very difficult and annoying? I can’t seem to find something that is convenient to read.
The Modern Library ebook edition (3 separate volumes, purchased from ereader.com a while back, and one of these days, I gotta get around to reading that sucker…) has the footnotes separate from the text and viewable by following links.
Don’t know about free editions, though.
Bests,
–tr
My copy is from Mobipocket. It’s part of the Complete Christian Collection, by Packard Technologies:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=14216
My copy has many footnotes, but it’s well formatted and very easy to navigate.
Here’s every result from the AddAll Ebook search engine:
http://ebooks.addall.com/Search/RefineEbooks.fcgi?inAuthor=gibbon&exAuthor=&inTitle=decline+fall+roman+empire&exTitle=&formats=epub&formats=pdf&formats=mobi&formats=ms&formats=ereader&formats=kindle&formats=palm&formats=sony&formats=ebookwise&formats=html&id=100116182354139656&order=PRICE&ordering=ASC&dispCurr=USD&match=Y
I haven’t actually looked at this version, but a search of the e-book upload section of mobile read led to this result:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26065
mobile read has a nice section of books formatted by users that are in the free domain.
Here’s an html version I found on IRC that looks pretty good: http://www.box.net/shared/5qe20l4nt5
The MOBI version on MobileRead does not have footnotes. You can find the link to that version and more free editions from the Internet Archive here:
http://www.inkmesh.com/ebooks/decline-and-fall-of-roman-d6023-edward-gibbon-ebook/?qs=Decline+and+Fall++Gibbon
What reader/format are you looking for the book in? I’ve had quite good luck — with just quick search-and-replace to make the footnotes work — making ebooks from the Online Library of Liberty site using Calibre.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1365&Itemid=27