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By Branko Collin

Many books.netManybooks.net, one of a group of excellent websites that distribute Project Gutenberg etexts, often in enhanced formats, has closed its poll in which it asked: “How do you read eBooks?” (meaning: which device do you use). The results are: Palm (50%), Pocket PC (21%), desktop PC (18%), and miscelaneous other devices making up the rest.

Proprietor Matthew McClintock started the poll after I had expressed my surprise at the popularity of PDF at Manybooks.net, which is downloaded considerably more often than any other format. People in the TeleRead comments section pointed out that PDF may be so popular, because it can be printed out. In the meantime Manybooks.net has started to provide large print PDFs of all its (10,000+) books, for the folks who like those beter.

 
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