An ebook, or "electronic Book", is simply an electronic, or digital version of a book that is formatted to be viewed and
read on a computer screen. Traditionally, most eBooks, are primarily text, however they often contain pictures, tables, forumla's,
etc.
Our eBooks are more than just plain text files that have been formatted for various types of 'reading software'. Our ebooks
are enhanced with mulitmedia features that make the reading, and viewing experience more exciting, and pleasurable. For instance,
our ebooks are high quality works that are menu driven, colorful, soundful, searchable, printable, bookmarkable, enjoyable,
and were designed with the History Buffs, Students, and Teachers, in mind.
An antiquarian book is simply an old book; an antique book. They are rare, and out-of-print books that collectors like
to own.
The books themselves are usually delicate because of their age, and are not really suitable for reading. When we convert
a book to an ebook, the contents of the book are presented in total, and include all of the original text, and photographs,
and illustrations. The photographs/illustrations are often presented along with the associated text, as in the original book,
and also presented in a slide show(s). Often, as in the 'San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire", the original content
is augmented and enhanced with additional photographs, and illustrations; commentary; music; and even some old-time movies.
Samples of our ebooks are available for evaluation; just click here to download a publication from our website
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There are a limited number of antiquarian books that exist in the world today, and that are also available to the general
public. Many are very hard to find.
And if you are able to buy an old book; say one that is over a 100 years old, you probably won't sit down and read it for
fear of destroying the book; they just are not sturdy enough to read. I have several books that are over 200 years old that
I only occassionally peruse; I would destory them if I were to sit down and read them.
So, a big advantage of having an antiquarian book in an ebook format is that you can, in fact, read the book without damging,
or destroying the book. And the ebook is preseved for many years to come; you'll never have to worry about the pages fading,
or curling, or becoming damaged, etc.
History Buffs, Students, Teachers
I am a History Buff; a permanent Student; I love to read about history.
When I read history books, I love to study the associated pictures, and illustrations, and photographs, etc. Our publications
primarily include American Era topics, though not necessarily American-only topics. Our publications make it easy to read
through the text, and then jump to associated picture(s), with captions, and then easily return to the text. Pictures add
alot to the subject, so you'll find that most our publications contain an amble amount of pictures.
You can bookmark as many pages as you like, and return at a later time. And, you can word search the publication, and then
jump directly to desired page; a person doing research on a given subject would find this a valuable tool. In most cases,
the reader can print-out a page of text, or a picture; a very handy feature for the researcher.
Okay, so, what would anyone want to read history from an Antiquarian book ? Why not ? In my opinion, and a big reason why
I like to read them, is that they provide a unique perspective that is not available in modern, current day, re-written, re-hashed,
and often,politically sanitized, history text.
For example, in the Civil War Through The Camera, the book does tell the basic history of the war; the sequence of events,
the major battles (with pictures), etc. But it also talks about honor, and idealism, and honesty, boldness, and bravery; fighting
for a cause (whether a Union, or Confederate soldier); it's a very dramatic telling of the story, one that I haven't seen
in modern texts, one that you probably would not see.....
The language, and style, and the prose, are unique to the time; even some of the language, and the some words themselves
are, strange; it just adds to the whole experience.
Plus.... they are simply fun to read; I know I cannot help but smile as I read through an old book, or magazine, and get
a real feel for those times, and those days, long past, that were the norm of that era.
