Top 5 Free Books for iPad. Part 2
27 Jul 2010 | Books | Ali Gorelova on Google+
We continue our list of the best free e-books for the iPad. Below there are five more titles on various topics: fiction, history, education, children’s books. We hope to cover some spheres of your interests and help you to have a lovely time reading interesting literature.
1. Free 25 Language Phrasebook by MobileReference: Do you travel a lot or maybe have to undertake frequent business trips? Or would you like to have a quiet holiday somewhere far away? To make your stay in a foreign country more comfortable and secure it is better to speak and understand at least minimum of its language the more the better! With 25 most widespread languages you will always be prepared for the contact with native speakers. Convenient search for words and phrases makes your task even simpler.
2. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow: This is a thrilling and dynamic science-fiction book you will read in one breath. The action takes place in the 22nd century mostly in Walt Disney World. Death is no longer to be feared people can “restore from backup”, that is to download one’s mind into the mind of one’s specially grown clone. As you can guess, something goes wrong and the Hall of Presidents is taken hold of, so Julius, the main character, is to unravel the whole mess.
3. The Art of War by Sunzi 6th Cent. B.C.: If you are particularly interested in China, its history and culture or military literature you will find this Chinese military treatise brilliant. The aspects of warfare, military strategies and tactics of 6th B.C. are drawn very precisely, accurately and are considered to be the most influential and successful of its time. Each of the 13 chapters depicts one aspect of military thinking and warfare.
4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: Deductive reasoning of this brilliant detective smoking pipe and playing violin for distraction is unmatched. All the twists and elegance with which these catching and sometimes frightening puzzles are solved are worth reading this book over and over again.
5. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm: There are more than 200 tales collected in this book so the pleasure is to last for quite a long time. Take your time and dive back into your childhood, meet familiar characters and get acquainted with the ones you never knew. To avoid eye strain you can choose the paper color, text color and text size.
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