QL eBooks

Last Updated: 15.02.2012

A selection of electronic books for eBook readers, tablet pcs, etc. Available in a selection of formats, including .ePub, .Mobi, and in some cases .pdf. Kindle. users should be able to use the .Mobi formats, although it will be necessary to transfer the file to your Kindle until I get around to making the documents available directly for Kindle.

Most eBook readers will not download directly from this page, so you will most likely need to download them to your computer and transfer them to the relevant directory or memory card on your eBook reader or tablet PC. For iPad users, Lee Privett has prepared this YouTube video he made showing him opening up the eBooks directly from this page in his iPad's Kindle and iBooks viewers: Click here to view the video.

I very much hope that making these eBook files available will help everyone associated with the QL because many documents and reference manuals can be held on an eBook reader or tablet PC, thus reducing the need for paper manuals and clutter around your computer desk, plus being able to refer to the guides on a small handheld screen as you work may be more convenient than bringing up PDFs and DOC files onscreen on your emulator or main computer.

The eBook called "The Sinclair QL" is an interesting book in the sense that it is derived from the Wikipedia encyclopedia using its facility to build and extract a book made of pages you have selected. This can then be supplied free of charge on a non-profit basis under license. The book contains all information I could find about the QL in Wikipedia together with a lot of information about Sinclair, past Sinclair products and so on. It is interesting reading and contains a wealth of external links too. Its only downside is the sheer size, over 25MB depending on which format you select (it is a 255 page book after all!), so don't try to download it on a dial-up internet connection, for example.

For the record, most of these have been converted using the Calibre software on a Windows PC. Calibre is a pretty good piece of software, although if you do try to use it to convert to eBook formats, make sure you read its instructions/help files well first so you get the most out of it. E.g. don't try to convert Word docs directly, follow the advice on exporting Word docs as filtered html files, and observe the guidelines on using facilities such as the Word 'heading' styles so a chapter index can be generated automatically and so on.

If you have converted further QL eBooks which can be made available free of charge for other QL users, please do email a copy to me for inclusion on this page so that I may expand the range available.

The QL User Guide is available in several formats below, and is also available to read online for occasional users who may not wish or need to download all of the QL User Guide documents.

Further information on eBook formats can be found on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

Paolo Proietti  has kindly converted the complete plain text QL manual and a few other articles from my website to eBook formats. The QL manual is best viewed with a monspaced font (if your eBook reader has that facility) as it contains character diagrams etc, so might look bad on a proportional font.

If you spot anything above which should not be there for copyright or other reason, or wish to notify me of an error, please let me know straight away so that the offending item may be removed.

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