How to Exploit eBook Stores via FBReader

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Once you have FBReader installed on your computer or mobile device, you can start searching and exploiting hundreds of eBook stores on the Internet via FBReader.

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Steps

Exploiting available eBook repositories

Start the application and prepare to mine. Suppose you have installed FBReader on your computer running GNU/Linux Ubuntu as described in the article ‘Installing FBReader to read e-books’.

• To be able to work with FBReader, first start it by clicking the E-book reader icon on Ubuntu’s start bar. Once FBReader has been opened, click the Search Network Libraries button.
  

  

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• By default, FBReader lists several eBook stores on the Internet as shown in the illustration that you can explore. Those repositories include:
  

  

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  • Feedbooks OPDS Catalog ^[1] . OPDS stands for Open Publication Distribution System , which in Vietnamese means Open Publication Distribution System . There are hundreds of OPDS Catalogs ^[2] on the Internet that you can search and dig into.
  • Kataлoг LitRes ^[3] . This is a repository of Russian books.
  • Manybooks Catalog ^[4] . This is an eBook store that is taken as an example shown below.
  • Shucang Catalog . This is the Chinese language e-book store.
  • Smashwords ^[5] . This is a free eBook site by independent authors.

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Open/Close Catalog. To Open/Close a Catalog, click on the Expand / Close Catalog link phrase located below the name of each respective Catalog.

• Below is an example of exploiting Manybooks Catalog in FBReader. You may be interested to explore the remaining Catalogs.

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Exploit the Manybooks Catalog . Click the Open Catalog link at the bottom line of Manybooks Catalog . You will see Manybooks Catalog categorized by 4 criteria with accompanying descriptions:

• New Titles – New titles. These are the recently added books.
  

  

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  • To list/recall the list(s) within each criterion (or sub-criteria), tap the Expand / Retract link phrase(s).
  • With the criteria below, do the same!
• Authors – Authors. This is an alphabetical list of authors.
  

  

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• Titles – The Book Titles. These are the book titles, listed alphabetically.
  

  

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• Genres – Book Categories. Book titles are grouped by category.
  

  

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Search and download selected books

Search catalogs on the Internet. In addition to the catalogs listed by default when opening FBReader, you can search and explore hundreds of catalogs available on the Internet. Below is an example of searching the Gutenberg Project’s free eBook repository.

Search and download the Gutenberg Project eBook on FBReader. Assume your computer is connected to the Internet. Do the following:

• Search books. Type the term Gutenberg Project in the search field and then press the Enter key. Wait a moment for the program to search and give results, as you can see in the illustration.
  

  

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  • Note: Sometimes you may need to press the ESC key to exit the search screen.
• Select books to download. Suppose that in the list of books returned after a search, you want to read a book by Eric S. Raymond called The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Click the Show Book link directly below the title.
  

  

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• Click the Download link below the book title and icon to download it to your computer. Wait a moment for FBReader to download the selected book and you will see the front page of the book with the book being added to your personal library in FBReader, as shown in the illustration.
  

  

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  • If you use the GNU/Linux Ubuntu operating system, by default, the downloaded book will be placed on your computer in the FBooks folder with subfolders inside, as shown in the illustration. In the picture, the 4285.epub e-book file is the one you just downloaded.
    

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• Search more. Refer to the bookstores listed below for more information about the bookstores you can search for:
  

  

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  • https://fbreader.org/content/documentation/own-opds
  • http://opds-spec.org/catalogs/
  • For example, you can search for e-books available in the Internet Archive Catalog at http://bookserver.archive.org/catalog/ by typing Internet Archive Catalog in the search field and then pressing the Enter key. The search result will be a list of books as shown in the illustration.
    

    

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Recommendation

• There are hundreds of eBook repositories available on the Internet that you can search, exploit and use.
• FBReader ^[6] has a version for mobile devices that you can install and use very conveniently.
• See also: Summary of articles about e-books with the article Linking e-book contents on wikiHow.vn
• See also the article Linking open-access, licensed content on wikiHow.vn

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Once you have FBReader installed on your computer or mobile device, you can start searching and exploiting hundreds of eBook stores on the Internet via FBReader.

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