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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

A Wonder of the Web: Project Gutenberg


Project Gutenberg is a website that provides over 20,000 free e-books that are out of copyright in the United States, from Jane Austen to Edgar Allan Poe to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The electronic books come in a variety of different file formats, such text files and audio files, and are rather easily downloaded (although sometimes you have to download the files in a number of parts).

I have to admit, I'm not one to read a book on a computer screen. However, I have found that the human-read audio books (as opposed to computer-read audio books) on Project Gutenberg are fantastic! There is everything from poetry to fairy tales to entire novels, and the volunteers who read the pieces I've listened to have been wonderful.

Enjoy!

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