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Wow, I had no idea. If you'd have asked me where to read older texts I'd have said "Project Gutenberg." This is miles better.
by jsmthrowaway 12y ago
Wow, I had no idea. If you'd have asked me where to read older texts I'd have said "Project Gutenberg."
This is miles better.
- dredmorbius 12y agoGutenberg is also an absolute treasure, though its formats tend to be rather spartan. When you consider that it started on mainframes (and with founder Michael S. Hart hand-typing in the earliest works), and that for reasons of compatibility it has long standardized on flat ASCII text as a storage format (I'm not sure if this remains the case: ISO-8859-1 is now supported and many works are available in HTML, PDF, and ePub versions, though I understand ASCII remains the reference). The wealth of material at Gutenberg is pretty staggering. But yeah, TIA's BookReader is really nice. If you go to the project page and view some of the sample works (from read.gov and the Internet Archive itself) you'll find some more colorful examples than my boring focus on 19th century economic heterdoxies ;-)