Aren't all the books, at least the classics, available for online reading? A couple of years ago the Discovery Channel had online research games that were a lot of fun. In the course of trying to solve the game, I read two PG books on line, Jules Verne's Voyage to the Moon and parts of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. The latter was so interesting I got the book to read the whole thing. (The Jules Verne book was short enough that I read the whole thing on line). I was surprised at how readable it was. Has PG changed so one has to download books now? Cindy --- Becky <beckyskipper1982@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I think this has changed slightly. When I > visited Gutenberg a few > months ago, some books did have short synopses. > Sometimes, you can even > read the book on-line before you download it. > > Becky > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stu Turk" <sturk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:07 PM > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: literary classics > > > > The last time I was on Project Gutenberg > (several years ago) there was > > no synopsis of the books, only titles. Has this > changed? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tony Baechler" <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > [....] > >> If you don't mind me asking, why do you prefer > bookshare? Is it because > >> you have a membership and it's easier to download > from one site? Is it > >> because PG doesn't offer .brf or DAISY files? If > there is something that > >> would make PG better for you, I'm interested. I > can't make any official > >> changes or anything, but I can pass on > suggestions. If there is a demand > >> for Braille files, I can work on a way to > implement them. Great efforts > >> have been made so the site is easy to use for the > blind. You can even > > read > >> the books online if you want. I am in no way > trying to not respect your > >> preference for bookshare. I respect them very > much and think they are a > >> great resource. I'm just wondering how Project > Gutenberg could be > >> better. If you don't want to answer, that's > fine. > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email > to > > bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the > Subject line. To get a list > > of available commands, put the word 'help' by > itself in the subject line. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to > > bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the > Subject line. To get a list of available commands, > put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.