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Monday, September 01, 2003 Should you ever find yourself seized by the desire to catch up on a good book, Planet PDF has made 46 classics of western literature available for no-cost downloading. The collection currently includes an intriguing selection of heavy hitters -- Dickens! Joyce! Twain! Bronte! Austen! Dostoyevsky! And that's not all! -- with more to come. On the more cutting edge side, the author of Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom -- a thoughtful, entertaining blast of contemporary sci-fi published by Tor books this last January and picking up fine notices (NPR, the N.Y. Times, and NASA, of all places) -- has made his book freely available for downloads (in numerous formats) at the same time that it's available in bookstores. The result -- 75,000 downloads in the first month. An excerpt of Down And Out can be found here. And finally, the good folks at the Virtual Occoquan have been kind and/or foolish enough to include this journal's entry of this last Saturday in their current edition. The images on the portal and contents page, BTW, are far goofier, far less mellow than what I've seen of the 'zine's earlier editions. rws 9:50 AM [+]
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