> pretty sure we won't see this freely hosted online a decade from now Eh, regardless of cultural mores, I think you'll still be able to find it on sites like

> pretty sure we won't see this freely hosted online a decade from now Eh, regardless of cultural mores, I think you'll still be able to find it on sites like Gutenberg whose explicit goal is to preserve public domain works. I agree that it is very cut and dry, and I miss that tone in more modern nonfiction literature - this tone is present in many genres from the WWII era; even technical manuals for old radios read very conversationally yet tersely.