What eBooks Do I Have on My Treo?

I’ve had a few questions about what I carry on my own Treo 650 lately. I’ll have an exhaustive list in an article when the rebuild process is complete.

But for now, as I rebuild between client projects, I’ll share the data “types” and try to group them logically for you.

Rebuilding is a good time to clean house and keep only the really good stuff and this entry will give you the complete “cleaned up” ebook library that I carry on my Treo and the expansion card.
I can’t (unfortunately) get all the books I want in a single format. I have, however, limited my formats to two: eReader and iSilo formats. I wish I could find a “universal” reader that would read all the top formats with a single full-featured program (like iSilo). But until then, I carry two.

The current list of ebooks on my Treo 650 (in no particular order):

Reference library:

• Copy of the US Constitution
• Encyclopedia Britannica Concise 2005
• Travel & Wilderness Medicine
• Terrorism Medical Response
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans (updated)
• 2005 CIA World Fact Book
• General History for Colleges
• Wrong Word: Homonyms, Homophones and Language-Related Booby-Traps
• Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
• US Army Survival Field Manual
• Ancient Egyptian Handbook
• Aesop’s Fables
• Bulfinch’s Mythology
• Who Was Who: 5000 BC to Date

To Entertain Me:

• Entire Gutenberg Twain Texts
• Collected Works of Poe (five volumes)
• Anthem
• Works of Samuel Johnson (two volumes)
• Biography on Samuel Johnson
• The Art of Writing
• The Efficiency Expert
• ShoGun
• Crime and Punishment
• Ringworld
• Wheel of Time, Book 1: The Eye of the World
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Rising Sun
• Gone with the Wind
• American Gods
• Lives of the Necromancers
• Slow River
• Fight Club
• Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist
• Ender’s Game
• The Green Mile
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• Digital Fortress
• Lord of the Flies
• The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories
• Forty Centuries of Ink
• Zen and the Art of the Internet
• Tea Leaves
  (… and a couple “racy” ones I’ll decline to list here)

To Entertain My Daughter:

• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Friendly Fairies
• Just So Stories
• Le Morte D’Arthur
• Life/Adventures of Santa Clause
• Water Babies
• Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan
• Alice in Wonderland

Yes, I carry alot of books, but I’m never without something really GOOD to read. And this list changes out as I read books and add new ones. This is only a small selection of my entire ebook library, but it’s what I carry at this moment.

For those interested, this represents less than 20% of the space on my 2 gig card. How else could I carry a virtual library shelf full of reading material in a “fat postage stamp-sized” storage device?

It’s good to go digital!