If you've liked the passages that I've posted from Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Chapters from Some Memoirs, you might like knowing that the book is available as a free .pdf download via Google Book Search. I'm not sure why I didn't think of looking there earlier. No, I am sure: it's because I still think of books as objects found on shelves. Google Book Search has several other books by ATR available as free downloads.
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie in Google Book Search
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Or you could buy it from Abebooks fo $ 7.25.
I once read an entire book online. You'd never guess which book- Bleak House. Staring, staring, at the screen...
There is this service (website? I don't know what you call it) that has a great number of out of copyright books, and they will send you a chapter a day to read: www.dailylit.com. So you browse through what they've got and if you see something you've been meaning to read since the Carter administration, you subscribe.
I notice that they presently also offer a selection of contemporary books for a small fee.
I've never been that overjoyed reading long passages on the computer screen, a common feeling, which is why these e-books haven't been a runaway bestseller, I guess.
Abe and Alibris are both terrific resources. I liked though the idea of the .pdf, right from Harvard's library.
I had to see if DailyLit has Proust, and it does, at least parts. Swann's Way comes in 179 installments (in French), 206 in translation. A long trek!
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