I’ve just found the most amazing website: www.gutenburg.net It contains over 20,000 out-of-copyright books as free downloads, ranging from simple text files to audio books. Lots of classics from Kipling, Jane Austen, H G Wells, Jukes Verne, Mark Twain - an almost endless list.

It could not be simpler to use and the average novel downloads in two to three seconds as a text file. Read it off your screen or store it on desktop, drag it to “documents to go”, load it to PDA, SmartPhone, or other portable media.

Because:

Whilst I would be the first to admit it’s much nicer to read a “real” paper book printed in ink, there are so many times one is waiting (airports !) or travelling and BORED, and with a 4Gig card in your PDA and the average book text file size being under 500k, it’s now possible to carry hundreds of complete books in your pocket.

A brilliant website !

Submitted by Robin Flood