How to handle eBooks
-The basics

How to handle eBooks: A Crash-course

OK: You are ready to start reading eBooks, but are uncertain as how to handle eBooks: That is precisely what we are going to discuss here :-).

If you haven't read What is an eBook, yet, read it now, then hit your browser's Back-button, and you'll return here for more.

As mentioned earlier, behind a link (or a nice-looking cover image), there might be a link to an eBook. In my Free eBooks page, it looks something like this:

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Blue links are the usual: It means that this is a link you haven't used before. Purple links are links you HAVE visited before. You may, however, want to visit them again, for any reason.

Now, back on track: How to handle eBooks.

If you place the marker above one of the links and press your mouse's left button, your browser will simply open the eBook for you to read: Most often (always on this site) a new window will open. Why?

Here is the trick: All website links lead you to a new page. If that page opens in the same window as you were in, then you have left that page/site. I don't want you to leave me: I want you to be here with me.

That's why I open a new window for you: Your old window will stay on the screen, behind the new one.

If you are like me, your eyesight has weakened (just a little, of course). After the eBook reader (if you don't now what a reader is, read more further down this page) has started and presented you with the eBook, you might like to enlarge the text. Click on the "+" and '-" symbols, magnifying image or whatever to do that.

When you terminate the new window (clicking on the X symbol in the upper right corner of your window), the old one stays put on the screen, and you are back with me. And that's what we both want, right? (that's what I want to believe, anyway).

So far, so good. But what if you are in a hurry, and just want to keep (save) the eBook for a later read, or printout? How to handle eBooks continues:

Have you ever wondered why your mouse has two buttons? The right button now comes into use: Place your mouse marker above any link. then click on the right button:

Automagically, the menu to the left pops up (or something similar, depending on which Web browser you are using). This meny can work wonders for you: If you right-click on an image, f.i., you can save your own copy of that image on your harddisk, send it in an email, or whatever. Test out the right-click function on a variety of objects in your screen: The menu will change depending on what object you select.

Anyway, in the menu you will see "Save Target As". Click on that one. A "Save As" window will open:

If you are happy with the cataloc suggested at the top, just click Save.

If not, browse your catalogs on the harddisk by clicking the down-arrow button in the top of the window, and choose another catalog. Be sure to remember where you save the file.

Later on, you can use your File Manager to navigate back to your eBook's cataloc. Double-click on the eBook file name, and it will open directly in the eBook reader.

I hope that, by now, you are VERY ready for a good read!

Thats all there is to it, really: Now you know how to handle eBooks.

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