Saturday 8 March 2008

Will Ye No Come Back Again - Books as Old Friends


Books for free - The Gutenberg project offers heaps of reading for young people at the relatively low cost of downloads and re-printing. Remember that it is definitely cheaper, more environmental friendly, and perhaps easier to buy the book off the shelf if you can find a publisher and bookstore with it. Check it out! Your printer uses chemicals and is expensive relative to a published book! Also, check out Google's Books and electronic devices that don't use paper. New ones are on the way that display in colour and eventually technology breakthroughs will give you the ultimate reading experience.

The world of artificial intelligence on choosing books or gnooks.

See Gnooks and the author literature map

The Gutenberg top 100 downloads

Context of some writers

AW Lake's favorite sea yarn authors. Many of their books Lake has on his bookshelves:



Herman Melville

Favorite Bookseller = McBooks Press:
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