Yes, you can read an entry from a book each day, but for many people these days, who read a number of sites (like/.) every day, it's easier to slot another website into that routine.
There's no reason you should trust the annotations any more than on any other site (like/.). You have to use your own judgement.
It is (or soon will be) sem-automated. I have to copy and paste all the text from the Project Gutenberg file by hand. But having prepared these entries in advance, a handy bit of experimental perl will (fingers crossed) publish a new entry each day.
I assume that because The Age is an Australian site, they're using Australian dollars. So it's a little misleading of/. to quote the figures as straight dollars on the front page (everyone will assume it's US$).
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Yes, you can read an entry from a book each day, but for many people these days, who read a number of sites (like /.) every day, it's easier to slot another website into that routine.
/.). You have to use your own judgement.
There's no reason you should trust the annotations any more than on any other site (like
But that doesn't stop me or other users fleshing out the missing gory details in the annotations on each page.
It is (or soon will be) sem-automated. I have to copy and paste all the text from the Project Gutenberg file by hand. But having prepared these entries in advance, a handy bit of experimental perl will (fingers crossed) publish a new entry each day.
I assume that because The Age is an Australian site, they're using Australian dollars. So it's a little misleading of /. to quote the figures as straight dollars on the front page (everyone will assume it's US$).
$2,000,000 Australian is "only" $1,143,600 US.