The Saadhu's Guide to Online Reading

Tips for reading electronic novels and books online.



The Saadhu Testament, a free online book
The Saadhu Testament, a free online book

Book Marks

The first thing to do when reading online is to create a bookmark. That way if your connection is inturrupted you can easily find the same site again. So please book mark The Saadhu Testament now, if you have not already done so.

To create a bookmark with Netscape browsers right click and select Add bookmark, on Microsoft explorer right click and select Add to favourites. Alternatively hold down the Ctlr key and press D.

Cut down your Phone Bills

If you read a novel or an electronic book, while you are online you are likely to incur charges for Telephone and/or internet usage.
Break the connection to your Internet Service Provider after a chapter or page has been completely downloaded. Once you have read that page, make the connection again to download the next chapter.
This way your incoming calls will get through while you read at your own pace.

Saving for a rainy day

If you decide to save a copy of an e-text on your hard disk for future reference, please remeber that they are protected by copyright, so you cannot pass on what you save to someone else.
To save a page select File from your brower's main menu. Then click on Save As

How to find free electronic books

You can start right here. This is the website of the first asian electronic novel, The Saadhu Testament. Once you have read it please move onto the Links Section for other resources. Once you have done that, Tell your friends about this website, to win free signed copy of the author's first novel.

This article was written back in 1998, at a time when you thought yourself lucky if you could browse at 28.8kbps and ADSL was unheard of. Electronic books were a rarity then and no one from asia had published an e-novel.

Things have changed but some of the content is still very relevent.


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Revised Oct 23, 2003, daya@saadhu.com
© Daya Dissanayake 1998, 2003