gutenberg.org

Now days the idea of digitally available books is not unusual. The advent of digital readers such as the Sony Reader Touch and Kindle 2 are generally accepted throughout the world. The ebook version of Dan Brown's book 'The Lost Symbol' is reportedly outselling hard copy sales in America. These books are all commercially available, and must be paid for before they can be read in digitial format. Other and completely separate projects aim to make ebooks widely available free of charge. The most recent and controversial of these attempts has come from Google books who, since 2004, claim to have scanned over 7 million books in their attempt to make as many texts ...  Read the complete review

This is a nifty little site ran by volunteers all around the world. Anyone can become a volunteer, and help transcribe the pages, so if interested, follow the links along the left hand column to get information on contact information. Transcribe what, you ask? Books, of course. Project Gutenberg is named after the man who invented the printing press, bringing cheaply printed books to the masses. Like their German namesake, the good people of this site are going over books that have entered into the public domain, which this year means books whose last copyright year was 1923. Now, this is as not as dusty and dry as you might think, nor as useless. No, its a ...  Read the complete review