Friday, October 15, 2010

project gutenberg

this wins the award for my discovery of the year.

very briefly, it makes freely available online the text of as many public domain books as volunteers care to upload and proofread. and at 33,000 items and growing, i am pretty much set for a long time to come, as long as i stick to public domain books and i can overlook the irksome plain text format on a laptop screen. it is one little step towards my emancipation from the corporeal library.

the first two documents i read are anne of the island and thoreau's essay on civil disobedience. chick lit and discourse. a girl can be happy.

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