e-books

• Freedom Trail.
  This guidebook contains a ready reference to the 2 1/2-mile long historic walking trail through downtown Boston that is the only National Park on land not owned by the Park Service. Many line drawings and pictures are included as well. The U.S.S. Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in any navy, is covered in detail. This NewtonBook also contains the full text of Longfellow's poem Paul Revere's Ride that made Revere famous, as well as eyewitness accounts of the Boston Massacre, the event that turned the colonial public against the British and precipitated the revolution.
• Airports for Newton
  Airports for Newton contains over 5,000 codes used to identify airports (from AAA (Anaa, French Polynesia) to ZZV (Zanesville, OH USA)). The previous version had nearly 2,000 and was considered a valuable resource by many users, now with over 5,000 it is considered one of the most complete references of airports. -- Shareware
• Bookmaking Tips and Tricks
  The Newton Book Maker is a simple tool that you can use to take the information important to you and put it on your Newton. You don't need to be a programmer to take advantage of Book Maker, but a procedure for book making helps smooth the process. This article contains some guidelines, assembled over the course of a half dozen or so projects, that can make book making easier and help you produce better books. Elise Bowditch discusses preparation, design, technique, testing and some routines you can copy and use in your own products.
• C Pocket Reference
  Reference to the basic ANSI C library functions. Describes the I/O functions, string, math, time and date, memory allocation, and other miscellaneous function. Useful for when you don't have an online reference and don't want to carry book around when you already have your Newton.
• Caloric Content of Popular Foods
  A guide to the calorie content of many popular foods. -- Freeware
• Cryptology Glossary
  A glossary of terms related to cryptology. -- Freeware
• Electronic Books for Newton
  A few free electronics books in Spanish. Covers different laws, and a great ancient classic book (El lazarillo de tormes). All are well done, with a full working index and full-text. -- Freeware
• Electronic books for the Newton
  Great selection of books! Iverson Software Co. began developing software for the Newton PDA in December of 1993. The bulk of their effort has been aimed at providing portable documents. If you would like custom software developed for the Newton, or just want to turn something into a NewtonBook, give them a call!
• Generic Drugs
  The new NewtonBook contains over 300 generic drugs, and lists their manufacturer, tradename, treatment class and indication (reason for usage). -- Shareware
• Harry Plantinga's Books
  Books include:
  • KJV-NT-1.pkg -- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John -- KJV (465K)
  • KJV-NT-2.pkg -- Acts to Revelation -- KJV (585K)
  • KJV_NT.pkg -- New Testament -- KJV (1044k)
  • Proverbs.pkg -- Proverbs -- KJV (94K)
  • Psalms.sit.hqx. -- Psalms -- KJV (273K)
  • ortho.pkg -- A classic defense of the fundamentals of Christianity, in an in an entertaining style reminiscent of C. S. Lewis, by G. K. Chesterton.
  • wisdom_of_father_brown10.sit.hqx -- Fiction of the "priest as detective" genre, by G. K. Chesterton.
  • 2cities.pkg The classic, by Charles Dickens. Over 800k.
  • tracts.pkg -- Three Tracts for the Times addressed to clergy, by J. H. Newman
  • steps.pkg -- The Steps to Christ, by Ellen G. White. 185k.
• King James Bible for Newton Palmtops
  The King James Version of the Holy Bible for Newton is the unedited electronic version of the King James Bible. Every effort has been taken to make using this Newton version both fast and simple. Thanks to proprietary SmartButtons technology, you can find specific Biblical passages quickly and easily.
• Librarian
  Librarian for 1.x Newtons serves several functions:
  • Saves your place in books through a system restart.
  • Moves the close box to the upper right of books.
  • Allows you to turn the page by cycling the power switch.
  -- Shareware
• Mosby's Emergency Drug Index
  Mosby's EDI, a digital reference book for EMS personnel. It is a highly portable, lightweight tool that provides ALS emergency responders with quick access to information about the commonly prescribed medications used in the pre hospital environment. The book also contains interactive forms for verifying drug dosage and infusion rate calculations. -- Commercial (download not available)
• Newt Errors 1.0 and Mac Errors 1.0
  A list of Newton Errors and a list of Mac errors from System Errors Table 3.0 by Bill Steinberg in Newton Book format.
• Newt's Cape
  Newt's Cape creates Newton books with text, graphics, hypertext links, tables and embedded forms from HTML (HyperText Markup Language) documents in your Notepad, Inbox or over a serial connection.
• NewtNews in Newton Book format
  
• Newton Books by Hayes Haugen
  Includes Candide and Crime and Punishment -- Freeware
• Newton Operating System v.2.0 Errors -- A must have for every Newton user!!!
  A Newton Book that has details about everyone of those errors that happens to you. This is a must have for every Newton owner. Download this file as a .pkg to your computer and then install to your Newt. This book takes very little memory so your precious space is not wasted! With this book you can search for error codes, browse by the type of error, use the overview to find what you need, or just go through it page by page.
• Newton Stuff
  A collection of Newton books, including 1996 NCAA Football Schedules, 1996 NFL Football Schedules, 1996/97 NHL Schedules, Documents in US History (Packages that contain the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, etc.), Government and Political Information, Morse Code and the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
• Paperback
  Paperback lets you take pure text files and quickly put them on your Newton device - creating Newton Paperback books straight from your text, with no extra work or hassle, for free!
• Perl Newton Books -- perlpkg-5.003
  These are the perl docs in Newton Book format.
• perlpkg-5.004 (perl man Newton Books)
  The man pages for perl5.004 in Newton Book format. All 45 man pages are included. Install the ones you want/need. Requirements: Newton device with 2.0 OS or higher. Minico 9- and 10-point font required for proper viewing of many pages.
• Peter and Wendy
  Join Peter, Tinker Bell, Wendy, and the Lost Boys as they battle the infamous Captain Hook in Never Never Land! -- Freeware
• PlayStation Ratings, Codes and Passwords
  A 143-page Newton Book for "PlayStation Ratings, Codes and Passwords". Also available for download in Zip format. -- Freeware
• Project Newtonberg
  Committed to the advocacy of electronic text, which by its very nature wants to be free -- Collected links to classic and original etexts available for Apple's Newton.
• Smokey Mountain Mist Babies
  There are 50 pages of original artwork rendered in the classical storybook style to compliment the cheerful and original text. The 48 highly-detailed illustrations make this storybook an impressive way to show-off the capabilities (and screen display) of your Newton. Like all "Newton Books", you can draw on the pages, mark them for later reference, print or fax them.
• The Adventures of Pinocchio - by C. Collodi [Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini].
  Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa. The story of how it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child. -- Freeware
• The Elements of Style
  The original 1918 edition of The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. is available for download. Strunk's gives eighteen simple rules of grammar, all of which are fully hypertexted in this NewtonBook edition. This work was the America Online NewtonBook of the Month and has been downloaded by over a thousand grammar lovers!
• The Message
  The Message lets you read and search the Bible on any Newton® device. The Message is free for personal use. You can set preferences for display style of chapter, verse and footnote markers, as well as font and size. You can place bookmarks wherever you want, and a record is automatically kept of passages you've been reading recently. Searching allows you to find words or phrases in the current chapter or book, the entire Bible, or any of various sections of the Old and New Testaments. -- Commercial (demo available for download)
• The Newton Gateway
  GateLine is an online service of The Peninsula Gateway, an Olympic Cascade Publishing Company newspaper. They have many of their stories available in Newton book format.
• USA Parks West
  Thomas Pfaff's USA Parks West Newton application documents 130+ national parks in the Western United States. Also available in Zip format. -- Freeware

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