Accelerando available for download
This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached. In particular, you may not create derivative works or use the work for commercial gain.
(We hope that if you enjoy the ebook you'll consider buying a copy of one of the paper editions, but this is the only reminder you'll get. I'm not into shareware with nag screens ...)
Formats:
The book is available for reading in HTML, with minimal markup (to make it easier for web clipping utilities to digest it). In addition, zip archives are provided for download in a variety of formats. The primary formats are RTF and conformant HTML 4.0. For direct reading on PDAs and smartphones, a Plucker database is provided. Finally, there are (deprecated) plain text and Palm DOC versions – these lack typographic markup – and user-contributed versions (e.g. Microsoft Reader).
To save my bandwidth and your time, please use BitTorrent in preference to HTTP (web) for downloading, if you know how. (And please consider keeping your BT feed running as a seed for a while afterwards.) Also, please consider grabbing a zip archive of your preferred file format rather than reading the uncompressed HTML version directly off my server. Thanks.
- Plain HTML
- Accelerando (950Kb)
- Rich Text Format
- BitTorrent | accelerando-rtf.zip (380Kb)
- HTML (zipped)
- BitTorrent | accelerando-html.zip (370Kb)
- PDF (basic, no indexing)
- accelerando-pdf.zip (1.9Mb)
- Plucker e-book
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BitTorrent | accelerando-plkr.zip
(430Kb)
You can learn more about Plucker here.
Download a viewer: HiRes PalmOS viewer | LoRes PalmOS viewer | Other PalmOS versions | PocketPC OS Viewer. - Palm DOC format
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BitTorrent | accelerando-palmdoc.zip
(344Kb)
Note: Palm DOC cannot represent typographical styles effectively – the Plucker version is strongly recommended. - Old-fashioned ASCII
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BitTorrent | accelerando-txt.zip
(360Kb)
Note: This text version omits typographical elements and accented characters may not be rendered correctly. - Microsoft Reader
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accelerando-lit.zip
(360Kb)
Note: contributed by Mike Eckardt..
A reminder: downloading the book
Due to the bloggy format of this website, instructions for downloading Accelerando have dropped down the front page. I'll refresh them once a month; meanwhile, click here for links to the downloadable versions.
Update
I've just updated the HTML and Plucker versions of the book, correcting the typos I've been notified of. (Most of these were introduced in the RTF to HTML conversion process, so I haven't updated the RTF version. The Plain Text version can fend for itself.) There's also now a basic PDF version, thanks to OS/X's built-in ability to handle PDFs – don't expect working bookmarks or an index, though.
Coming soon ...
The text of "Accelerando" will be available for download under a Creative Commons license from this site later this month (June 2005).
(Yes, you read that right. Now go away, I'm still preparing the text.)