silverfoxnik Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 Hi Folks My best mates clubbed together last week and bought me a Kindle for my 50th which was very nice of them.. ..And now I've sussed out how to use it, I'd like to get some bass books to put on it; tutorials, biographies, that sort of thing.. So just wondering if anyone knows of any good stuff in Kindle format that they would recommend?? Thanks Nik Quote
51m0n Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 You would do a lot worse than perusing [url="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page"]Project Gutenberg[/url], hundreds of free (as in outside of copyright) books to download in Kindle format.... Quote
bluesparky Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 [quote name='51m0n' post='1186380' date='Apr 3 2011, 12:55 AM']You would do a lot worse than perusing [url="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page"]Project Gutenberg[/url], hundreds of free (as in outside of copyright) books to download in Kindle format....[/quote] That's a handy site, thanks. I was given a kindle by my lovely wife for Valentine's day, a great gift as far as I'm concerned! I've already scanned and PDF'd most of the music books, documents, music & scales that i use at home so i have access to them when i'm away. 99% of the time they've transferred quite well onto the Kindle, but occasionally they don't work as the print is too small or i've been a bit slap-dash with my scanning. I'm interested to see if anyone does find any good results / answers for this. There was a thread quite a while back which had a link to a site with LOADS of music / tuition / transcription books on it, blatantly flouting any copyright and probably utterly illegal, but a "friend of a friend" has put them on his kindle and they work really well. Quote
Bilbo Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 I have downloaded several jazz theory books (David Baker's and samples of The Jazz Theory Book and the Jazz Piano Book as well as a book about couinterpoint)) but have found the musical examples very hard to read as they do not enlarge like the text can. Very frustrating. I did get a book on Alexander Technique for double bassists that was fine but that's about it. Quote
silverfoxnik Posted April 4, 2011 Author Posted April 4, 2011 Thanks folks! That's a real help.... Quote
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