Want to do some reading?

Posted By: Ginger
Date: Monday, 8 September 2003, at 1:29 p.m.

You might want to check out these sites:

Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). this site offers free downloads of classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries. Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.net/index.html

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of hundreds of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. The Catalogue has a number of unique features. First, not only can you search for and display texts from the collection, but you can also search the content of located texts. For example, you can search for Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. Simple. You can then search the content of The Adventures for the words like fish and belly to get a description of Huck Finn's father. Searchable by author, by title, and by date. The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

E-books haven't exactly revolutionized the publishing industry, and that's a shame somehow; after all, sometimes you want something to read right now and haven't one of those dead-paper tomes handy. If you find yourself in that tragic circumstance, check out blackmask.com for a selection of free reads. Mystery, fiction, poetry, pulp fiction, even non-English texts ‹ there's a little bit of everything here. (And if you don't know what you want, why not let the Random button choose for you?) Blackmask Online: http://www.blackmask.com/page.php

The Online Books Page is a searchable and browseable collection of over 18,000 English works in various formats that are all free for personal, noncommercial use. The Online Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html

 

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