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  1. Re:Burn 'em all, move on to ebooks. by Rick17JJ · · Score: 1 · on Bookstore Owner Burns Books

    I prefer reading printed books but don't have room for very many on my bookshelf , so to save space, ebooks are a good alternative. I have sometimes had to throw out old books to make room for new ones. Of course, I always felt guilty doing that, but I did not know what else to do with them. Instead of doing that, I could easily fit an entire library of many thousands of books on one small hard drive. There are may older books, in which the copyrights have expired, as well as some occasional newer books which for various reasons are available in ebook form for free.

    Here a few sources of free ebooks:

    I do buy occasional newer printed books too, which are not available for free, so I am still doing my share of helping to support the publishing industry.

  2. Re:Well by Rick17JJ · · Score: 1 · on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools
    I am add something else to my own post (as if anyone really cares anyway). I just wanted to add that there are also free HTML versions of all three of those books available from ArthursClassicNovels.com.
  3. Re:Well by Rick17JJ · · Score: 1 · on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools
    I am add something else to my own post (as if anyone really cares anyway). I just wanted to add that there are also free HTML versions of all three of those books available from ArthursClassicNovels.com.
  4. Re:Well by Rick17JJ · · Score: 1 · on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools
    I am add something else to my own post (as if anyone really cares anyway). I just wanted to add that there are also free HTML versions of all three of those books available from ArthursClassicNovels.com.
  5. Re:Info about making your site accessible by Rick17JJ · · Score: 1 · on Judge Rules Sites Can Be Sued Over Design

    I am not vision impared, but I have also run across several other sites with thousands of free online classic stories. They were most likely not set up specifically for vision impared people. These are the websites that I have run across:

  6. Re:I need more info! by j1m+5n0w · · Score: 2, Interesting · on On the Trail to Atlantis

    More Atlantean info, from Atlantis, the Antidiluvian World, by Ignatius Donnelly (also available from project gutenberg, but here it is html formatted)

    Here is a short excerpt from Plato's description:

    "Such was the vast power which the god settled in the lost island of Atlantis; and this he afterward directed against our land on the following pretext, as traditions tell: For many generations, as long as the divine nature lasted in them, they were obedient to the laws, and well-affectioned toward the gods, who were their kinsmen; for they possessed true and in every way great spirits, practising gentleness and wisdom in the various chances of life, and in their intercourse with one another. They despised everything but virtue, not caring for their present state of life, arid thinking lightly on the possession of gold and other property, which seemed only a burden to them; neither were they intoxicated by luxury; nor did wealth deprive them of their self-control; but they were sober, and saw clearly that all these goods are increased by virtuous friendship with one another, and that by excessive zeal for them, and honor of them, the good of them is lost, and friendship perishes with them.

    "By such reflections, and by the continuance in them of a divine nature, all that which we have described waxed and increased in them; but when this divine portion began to fade away in them, and became diluted too often, and with too much of the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper-hand, then, they being unable to bear their fortune, became unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see, they began to appear base, and had lost the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they still appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were filled with unrighteous avarice and power. Zeus, the god of gods, who rules with law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honorable race was in a most wretched state, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might be chastened and improved, collected all the gods into his most holy habitation, which, being placed in the centre of the world, sees all things that partake of generation. And when he had called them together he spake as follows:"

    [Here Plato's story abruptly ends.]

    Reminds me quite strongly of the fall of Numenor in the Silmarillion...

    -jim