A book distributed in an electronic format such as a
text file (the normally expected format),
pdf,
html, or Palm Doc. Ligitimate etexts, are electronic versions of books sold by
publishers, distributed by the
author who has retained the
electronic distribution rights (eg,
The Hacker Crackdown by
Bruce Sterling), or made available in electronic libraries such as
Project Gutenberg. Illigitimate etexts take the form of
OCR'd novels, distributed on
FTP,
Hotline and web pages. Etexts are great things if you have a palmtop. I've heard of many people using
Palms for reading etexts, and the
200LX has a program (
Vertical Reader) written for this purpose.
There's some etexts on E2. Soft link 'em bellow I suppose.