Green Options » digital books http://greenoptions.com/tag/digital-books Posts tagged 'digital books' Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Get a Green E-Book for Free http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/30/get-a-green-e-book-for-free/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/30/get-a-green-e-book-for-free/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:25 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/30/get-a-green-e-book-for-free/ Twice25 at Wikimedia Commons under a GNU Free Documentation license.)EcoBrain, a seller of environmentally focused digital books, has a new deal for members who sign up by Nov. 1: a $5 credit toward any title in their collection. With dozens upon dozens of books available for less than $5, that amounts to a free e-book or two.

Among the books you could get for free if you sign up for the credit: Basic Bread Baking; Bird Food Recipes; Build Your Own Underground Root Cellar; Growing Herbs for Flu & Cold Relief; Helping Orphaned or Injured Wild Birds; Jams, Jellies and More; Simple Home Repairs; and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. And, actually, because a fair number of titles cost $2 or less, you could get two books for free with the credit.

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]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/30/get-a-green-e-book-for-free/feed/ Use Your EcoBrain: Green Reading Without the Trees http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/21/use-your-ecobrain-green-reading-without-the-trees/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/21/use-your-ecobrain-green-reading-without-the-trees/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:10:52 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/21/use-your-ecobrain-green-reading-without-the-trees/ EcoBrain.)If you’ve ever felt guilty about buying a new book, but really wanted a title you couldn’t find used online or at the library, here’s a cool and greener way to stay on top of new releases from the world of environmental publishing: EcoBrain.

Founded last year by two passionately green families at different ends of North America (one in the U.S., one in Canada), EcoBrain is “dedicated to educating people about environmental living options while affording them the opportunity to purchase materials digitally in an effort to radically reduce the impact on the environment,” according to its Website. In other words, it lets you buy books about green living in a way that’s truly green: in digital, no-printed-paper-or-snail-mail-delivery-necessary format.

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