Ebooks - Blog Posts
Book Lovers Day - Free Aeronautics e-Books from NASA
Quieting the Boom
The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight.
Download it HERE
Elegance in Flight
A comprehensive History of the F-16XL Experimental Prototype and its Role in our Flight Research.
Download it HERE
Probing the Sky
Selected National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Research Airplanes and Their Contributions to Flight.
Download it HERE
Cave of the Winds
The huge Langley Full-Scale Tunnel building dominated the skyline of Langley Air Force Base for 81 years (1930–2011). Explore how the results of critical tests conducted within its massive test section contributed to many of the Nation's most important aeronautics and space programs.
Download it HERE
A New Twist in Flight Research
A New Twist in Flight Research describes the origins and design development of aeroelastic wing technology, its application to research aircraft, the flight-test program, and follow-on research and future applications.
Download it HERE
Sweeping Forward
Developing & Flight Testing the Grumman X-29A Forward Swept Wing Research Aircraft.
Download it HERE
Thinking Obliquely
Robert T. Jones, the Oblique Wing, our AD-1 Demonstrator, and its Legacy.
Download it HERE
The Apollo of Aeronautics
The fuel crisis of the 1970s threatened not only the airline industry but also the future of American prosperity itself. It also served as the genesis of technological ingenuity and innovation from a group of scientists and engineers at NASA, who initiated planning exercises to explore new fuel-saving technologies.
Download it HERE
X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight
X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight describes the genesis of the program, the design and construction of the aircraft, years of research flights and the experiments that flew aboard them.
Download it HERE
Ikhana
Delve into the story of the Ikhana, a remotely piloted vehicle used by NASA researchers to conduct Earth science research, which became an unexpected flying and imaging helper to emergency workers battling California wildfires.
Download it HERE
NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 1
This first volume in a two-volume set includes case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research for contributions such as high-speed wing design, the area rule, rotary-wing aerodynamics research, sonic boom mitigation, hypersonic design, computational fluid dynamics, electronic flight control and environmentally friendly aircraft technology.
Download it HERE
NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 2
Continue your journey into the world of NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics with case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research for contributions including wind shear and lightning research, flight operations, human factors, wind tunnels, composite structures, general aviation aircraft safety, supersonic cruise aircraft research and atmospheric icing.
Download it HERE
Interested in other free e-books on topics from space, science, research and more? Discover the other e-books HERE.
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Tá Tudo Pela Metade do Dobro na Black Friday? Então...
O que você está achando da BLACK FRIDAY 2018?
O de sempre? “Tudo pela metade do dobro” do preço? Descontos que você já viu o ano todo?
Então, estes são os Presentes de Natal que reservei pra você, e não é ficção, todos estes e-books são seus, free:
1. Seria o Sol? (Conto) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B010VQ4XTG
2. É a Vida (Conto) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B0105DI2RE
3. Gente Trabalhadora (Conto) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B01098GTD4
4. O Relé e o Pug (Conto) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B010MOYP0E
5. C7i - Enganar um Deus (Livro 1) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00E6YQ866
6. C7i - Ponto Sem Retorno (Livro 2) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00E7JOW54
7. C7i - A Verdadeira Face (Livro 3) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00E99LEWG
8. C7i - Órfãos na Eternidade (Livro 4) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00EPXUT7W
9. Sob o Olhar da Eternidade (Romance) - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00LBO3K2Y
Graaande abraço,
Wagner RMS
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Amazon - Uses faux 3D animations to guide the user to view the back and internal book details.
Yo, so if you’re going to go on piracy sites and stuff don’t brag about it on Twitter with the actual name of the site
❣️Books❣️
The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
The Spanish Love Deception -Elena Armas
the Kiss Quotient -Helen Hoang
To Hate Adam Conner -Ella Maise
The Cheat Sheet -Sara Adams
How Sweet It Is -Dylan Newton
Punk 57 -Penelope Douglas
It Happened One Summer -Tessa Bailey
my kindle watching me unload the five books i bought today 👁👄👁
me buying more books because the ebooks i download “don’t count”
Amazon is removing our right to download Kindle books onto our computers on Feb 26.
What does this mean? It means, if you buy an ebook from Amazon and you want to use a different ereader, you will not be able to download the file onto your computer, remove its DRM using Calibre, and transfer the book to any device of your choice. After February 26, you’ll be locked to Amazon’s ecosystem indefinitely. Books will only be transferable between Amazon devices and apps. You do not own the ebooks you buy. Amazon can (and has) remove ebooks from your library.
Download them now and use the Calibre to remove the DRM. I highly suggest buying ebooks from other places from now on. Links to resources below.
Video about Amazon removing downloads
Article explaining how to download Calibre and remove DRM
Alternative Ebook/Physical Book Stores
Bookshop.org
ebooks.com
Barnes and Noble
Halfpricebooks.com
Pango
Thrift Books
Free Ebooks
Project Gutenberg
Libby/Overdrive (libraries)
The Internet Archive
Alternative Audiobook Apps
Audiobooks.com
Libby/Overdrive
Chirp
Libro.fm
Using a Kindle without Using Amazon
If you’re like me, you have a kindle and you’re not financially in the position to buy a new $130 ereader from a different brand. So what are you to do? The best thing you can do is use Libby/Overdrive. It’s very simple. The Libby app has an option to link your Amazon account to the app and so when you borrow a book from your library, it’ll automatically go to your kindle.
You can also sideload books onto your kindle if the file is compatible and DRM free. Here’s an article listing DRM free book sources.
Supporting Indie Authors
Now this is where things get tricky. Most indie authors make the bulk of their sales on Amazon. It’s awful, but that’s the nature of the beast. Use your own discretion when buying indie books from Amazon. Check and see if that author sells their books on other platforms or buy their book physically (if the option is available) so that you actually own the book you buy.
Spending my night with Zebulon Fuller 💞 (and my 🐶)
Libraries have traditionally operated on a basic premise: Once they purchase a book, they can lend it out to patrons as much (or as little) as they like. Library copies often come from publishers, but they can also come from donations, used book sales, or other libraries. However the library obtains the book, once the library legally owns it, it is theirs to lend as they see fit. Not so for digital books. To make licensed e-books available to patrons, libraries have to pay publishers multiple times over. First, they must subscribe (for a fee) to aggregator platforms such as Overdrive. Aggregators, like streaming services such as HBO’s Max, have total control over adding or removing content from their catalogue. Content can be removed at any time, for any reason, without input from your local library. The decision happens not at the community level but at the corporate one, thousands of miles from the patrons affected. Then libraries must purchase each individual copy of each individual title that they want to offer as an e-book. These e-book copies are not only priced at a steep markup—up to 300% over consumer retail—but are also time- and loan-limited, meaning the files self-destruct after a certain number of loans. The library then needs to repurchase the same book, at a new price, in order to keep it in stock. This upending of the traditional order puts massive financial strain on libraries and the taxpayers that fund them. It also opens up a world of privacy concerns; while libraries are restricted in the reader data they can collect and share, private companies are under no such obligation. Some libraries have turned to another solution: controlled digital lending, or CDL, a process by which a library scans the physical books it already has in its collection, makes secure digital copies, and lends those out on a one-to-one “owned to loaned” ratio. The Internet Archive was an early pioneer of this technique. When the digital copy is loaned, the physical copy is sequestered from borrowing; when the physical copy is checked out, the digital copy becomes unavailable. The benefits to libraries are obvious; delicate books can be circulated without fear of damage, volumes can be moved off-site for facilities work without interrupting patron access, and older and endangered works become searchable and can get a second chance at life. Library patrons, who fund their local library’s purchases with their tax dollars, also benefit from the ability to freely access the books. Publishers are, unfortunately, not a fan of this model, and in 2020 four of them sued the Internet Archive over its CDL program. The suit ultimately focused on the Internet Archive’s lending of 127 books that were already commercially available through licensed aggregators. The publisher plaintiffs accused the Internet Archive of mass copyright infringement, while the Internet Archive argued that its digitization and lending program was a fair use. The trial court sided with the publishers, and on September 4, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reaffirmed that decision with some alterations to the underlying reasoning. This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse. It leaves local communities’ reading habits at the mercy of curatorial decisions made by four dominant publishing companies thousands of miles away. It steers Americans away from one of the few remaining bastions of privacy protection and funnels them into a surveillance ecosystem that, like Big Tech, becomes more dangerous with each passing data breach. And by increasing the price for access to knowledge, it puts up even more barriers between underserved communities and the American dream.
11 September 2024
This is so frustrating. Have any of you wondered why your local library doesn’t have eBook versions of your favorite book? It’s crap like this. All of the major publishers (and their subsidiaries -- so this covers a lot more books that you might think) put some sort of major block between libraries and their eBooks. This can include jacked up prices, limits on the number of checkouts, limits on how long a book can circulate before the library has to buy it again, embargoes, or some combination of those. Oh, and in most cases, the library can only check an eBook out to one person at a time. If several people want to read it, they have to wait, or the library has to “buy” multiple copies. (Yes, even if the limit is on the number of times a book can circulate. Doesn’t that make sense?)
What do I mean by jacked up prices and limits on use? Let’s take a look at some books that are popular now, just as examples!
The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton -- $90 for libraries to buy the eBook. You can get it on Kindle for $14.99. You or the library can buy the hardcover print version for $15 or less. For that matter, you could buy the print version, read it, and give it to the library. That’s right out for eBooks.
The Outsider by Stephen King -- just $20.99 for libraries. That’s not too much more than the $14.99 Amazon is charging people. However, the copy that you buy (probably) won’t disappear after 12 months.
The Other Woman by Daniel Silva -- $28.99 for libraries. Again, $14.99 for ordinary mortals on Amazon. Do you think you and your friends could read it more than 26 times? Not if you’re checking it out from the library! After 26 checkouts, it goes away. But it’s still limited to one reader at a time -- even if ten people want to read it today (and use up almost half of those checkouts), they have to wait in line to get it.
Feared by Lisa Scottoline -- Are you ready for this? $60 for libraries AND it goes away after the earlier of 52 checkouts or 24 months. (Still just $14.99 on Amazon for individuals though!)
I could go on and on. (Just ask my family and friends who have gotten to hear this rant in person!) I just checked the top 5 New York Times bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction. All of the eBook editions suffer from these higher prices and/or restrictions on use for libraries.
Why? Because we cut into sales? Libraries buy a lot more print books than eBooks, even now, but we get discounts on the print editions. Publishers know that library sales mean more people reading their books and reviewing those books, talking them up to friends, buying them for family members, even buying their own copies later.
Because people might crack the DRM on the library’s eBook? It’s possible. However, it’s probably easier with a regular commercial copy because library eBooks are actually locked down more than individual eBooks. You can’t access an eBook that you’ve checked out once the loan period is over -- it’s automatically “returned” to the library.
Could libraries spend their money on smaller publishers that are less restrictive? Absolutely! However, those eBooks aren’t on the bestseller lists. They usually aren’t the ones that our patrons are asking us to buy.
I’m afraid I don’t have a great way for individuals to make a difference. (Mostly, I just wanted to rant because this is a topic I find extremely frustrating.) Joining Readers First and letting publishers know that you support libraries will help. Being patient when your local library can’t get the books you want as an eBook is great, too. If you have a way to talk directly with someone high enough in one of the big publishing houses, let them know that these restrictions hurt libraries, hurt readers, and ultimately hurt sales of eBooks.
Several library organizations and advocacy groups, including the American Library Association and ReadersFirst, have come out against Tor’s embargo. In a phone interview with io9, ALA president Loida Garcia Febo expressed her concerns that it could mean more trouble for libraries and their relationships with publishers, taking into account how hard they had to fight to get e-book access in the first place. She also said how unfortunate it is that the embargo is targeting sci-fi and fantasy readers, given how dedicated and passionate they are about the written word.
Solar System: Things to Know This Week
Add to your electronic bookshelf with these free e-books from NASA!
1. The Saturn System Through the Eyes of Cassini
This work features 100 images highlighting Cassini’s 13-year tour at the ringed giant.
2. Earth as Art
Explore our beautiful home world as seen from space.
3. Meatballs and more
Emblems of Exploration showcases the rich history of space and aeronautic logos.
4. Ready for Our Close Up
Hubble Focus: Our Amazing Solar System showcases the wonders of our galactic neighborhood.
5. NASA’s First A
This book dives into the role aeronautics plays in our mission of engineering and exploration.
6. See More
Making the Invisible Visible outlines the rich history of infrared astronomy.
7. Ready for a Deeper Dive?
The NASA Systems Engineering Handbook describes how we get the job done.
8. Spoiler Alert
The space race really heats up in the third volume of famed Russian spacecraft designer Boris Chertok memoirs. Chertok, who worked under the legendary Sergey Korolev, continues his fascinating narrative on the early history of the Soviet space program, from 1961 to 1967 in Rockets and People III.
9. Take a Walk on the Wild Side
The second volume of Walking to Olympus explores the 21st century evolution of spacewalks.
10. No Library Card Needed
Find your own great read in NASA’s free e-book library.
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Book Lovers Day - Free Aeronautics e-Books from NASA
Quieting the Boom
The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight.
Download it HERE
Elegance in Flight
A comprehensive History of the F-16XL Experimental Prototype and its Role in our Flight Research.
Download it HERE
Probing the Sky
Selected National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Research Airplanes and Their Contributions to Flight.
Download it HERE
Cave of the Winds
The huge Langley Full-Scale Tunnel building dominated the skyline of Langley Air Force Base for 81 years (1930–2011). Explore how the results of critical tests conducted within its massive test section contributed to many of the Nation’s most important aeronautics and space programs.
Download it HERE
A New Twist in Flight Research
A New Twist in Flight Research describes the origins and design development of aeroelastic wing technology, its application to research aircraft, the flight-test program, and follow-on research and future applications.
Download it HERE
Sweeping Forward
Developing & Flight Testing the Grumman X-29A Forward Swept Wing Research Aircraft.
Download it HERE
Thinking Obliquely
Robert T. Jones, the Oblique Wing, our AD-1 Demonstrator, and its Legacy.
Download it HERE
The Apollo of Aeronautics
The fuel crisis of the 1970s threatened not only the airline industry but also the future of American prosperity itself. It also served as the genesis of technological ingenuity and innovation from a group of scientists and engineers at NASA, who initiated planning exercises to explore new fuel-saving technologies.
Download it HERE
X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight
X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight describes the genesis of the program, the design and construction of the aircraft, years of research flights and the experiments that flew aboard them.
Download it HERE
Ikhana
Delve into the story of the Ikhana, a remotely piloted vehicle used by NASA researchers to conduct Earth science research, which became an unexpected flying and imaging helper to emergency workers battling California wildfires.
Download it HERE
NASA’s Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 1
This first volume in a two-volume set includes case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research for contributions such as high-speed wing design, the area rule, rotary-wing aerodynamics research, sonic boom mitigation, hypersonic design, computational fluid dynamics, electronic flight control and environmentally friendly aircraft technology.
Download it HERE
NASA’s Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 2
Continue your journey into the world of NASA’s Contributions to Aeronautics with case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research for contributions including wind shear and lightning research, flight operations, human factors, wind tunnels, composite structures, general aviation aircraft safety, supersonic cruise aircraft research and atmospheric icing.
Download it HERE
Interested in other free e-books on topics from space, science, research and more? Discover the other e-books HERE.
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com