Electronic Book Library

With the increasing use of Kindle and other electronic book readers I thought it might be useful to start a virtual library of recommended books ... if any of the following links stop working by the way, let me know by leaving a comment on the main blog...

First; I recommend Calibre [click here] for managing your Kindle library - I find it very easy to use - you can manage the device files through the normal Windows Explorer type display, but Calibre allows you to handle multiple files, from multiple sources, and better still it allows you to save files from one source, in a file format that you can use on your reading device.. 

I also recommend this site here [clicky] new books are added daily, you can filter on specific genres, and all the books are free - mostly from Amazon from what I can tell....

Thanks to Mike Whitaker also for this site [clicky] which does much the same....

This site [clicky] also does free audio books as well as books for Kindle and other formats....

Also here [clicky] - which has the usual classics but a number of more recent authors... (I downloaded "Homage to Catalonia" and "Down and Out in Paris and London" straight away!)

So - a few suggestions from me to get the series started - all free unless otherwise stated.....

• All About War Games by Jack Scruby [click here] "One of the first ever published sets of wargame rules, from the 1950s. An early work by Jack Scruby, a classic for wargamers. Covers rules, how to paint miniatures and more". This is a free download, in PDF format but still readable on your Kindle...
• The WRG "Armies and Enemies" series are also available as PDF's [click here] - I've not downloaded them so I have no idea how these would display on a Kindle, but given the originals were all black and white they should display - if not - download them to your main device (PC/iPAd or whatever) as these are a superb resource for an Ancient gamer! They're free....
• "Floor Games; a companion volume to 'Little Wars'" [click here] - HG Wells classic - (currently) £1.99 from Amazon (it's also available in multiple formats from Gutenberg [click here] for free)
• "Little Wars" [click here] - the HG Wells classic - is available from Gutenberg free, but for a price on Amazon
•  Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh [click here] first person account...  free from Amazon
• Shed loads of books by the likes of Henty, Dumas, Stevenson, etc are all free on Amazon/Project Gutenberg....
• War Chess  - similar to the next:
  http://archive.org/details/warchessorgameof00rich 
• Game of War - a wargame played on a playing surface similar to a chess board (one for Bob Cordery) http://archive.org/details/gameofwar00maxi
• Rules for the Conduct of a Wargame on a Map http://archive.org/details/rulesforconducto00grearich
  

The following free ebooks were suggested by RossMac and are all available in epub or pdf but some are also available in Kindle - if you use Calibre this shouldn't be an issue.

• Cavalry  by Lewis Edward Nolan
• Memoirs of W T Sherman
• Tin Army of the Potomac.[..this one is a cracker....]
• Service with the French Army in Africa  by Philip Kearny
• Adventures of the Connaught Rangers by William Gratton
• Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign 1848-49 by A Lawrence
• The Mexican War by an English Soldier.