The ebook is a subtle and perfect way of selectively eliminating entire libraries of perfectly good information. You will find plenty of newer and popular books of course.
Actually, sites like
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ and Gutenberg are dedicated to
preserving paper libraries in electronic form.
Specifically so that they won't get lost when Aunt Edna cleans her attic.
I like paper books and magazines a lot, always have. But the shear convenience of having a personal library in pocket-size is just too cool to pass on.
Here is the link to a few gun ebooks located at Amazon (not free of course):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p...h+books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328706152&rnid=618072011
To find specific free ebooks, try Googling the 'title' along with 'free ebook download'. I have downloaded thousands of vintage books in electronic form....entire book collections by authors like Burroughs, Ringo, Turtledove, Curris, etc. I keep around 1,500 books on my old 3G Kindle at any given time. I even download the vintage book covers with all that great artwork and use them as screen savers on the Kindles.
There is a wonderful free program called
Calibre which converts pretty much any form of eBook into any other form. Then you just plug your Kindle into your PC and load the books to it.
The downside to the Kindle platform (or any of the small tablets) for reading gun type books and magazines is the page size and the picture size. Even my Fire doesn't do it well, although it is better at this than my older K3G. 'Text only' books are great though.
However, A lot of 'gun books' may simply not be available in electronic form yet...even in an electronic pirate version. IIRC, 'Guns & Ammo' magazine is available for the Fire.