camwyn | Duuuude. Old books online!

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/title.html

"We have hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free! It is an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up on your reading list, or read books that it seems like everyone else has already read. Fix yourself a drink, get comfortable and Start Reading!"

So. Not. Kidding. They've got bunches of Holmesiana. They've got The Call of the Wild. They've got Ayn Rand (only Anthem), Upton Sinclair, Daniel Defoe, L. Frank Baum (more Oz than you can shake a stick at!), H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, Dickens, Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, you name it. And it isn't just books, either, there's short stories and political documents (the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Presidential inaugural speeches), and, and...

Dude. If you have a cousin or a sister or a brother or a kid or something and they have to read Classic American or English Literature for a book report, for the love of Fnord, point them at this web site! Let them pick a book and start reading - it's not a downloadable format, it's just web pages with 'click here for next page of book'. Low bandwidth. No problem. Very easy to get an idea of the book before you plunk down whatever the stores are charging, and you can always buy the paper version afterwards if you like. And hey - no overdue fines at the library!

You so owe it to the little gnome in your soul who reads things way too old to be commonplace any more. Go on, check 'em out.