Re: GOOGLE LIBRARY FLIM-FLAM

From: Rowley (rowleykmREMOVE_at_excite.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:40:43 GMT

Don't know if anyone mentioned this - but there are around
13,000 books that are available in electronic format at the
Project Gutenberg - and I think you can get them on cd/dvd if
you want.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Their top 100 books for the week is at;

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

The top 25 this week were;

1.The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by
Leonardo da Vinci (2074)
2.The Art of War by 孫子 (1408)
3.Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens (1320)
4.Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall by Henry Bursill
(1079)
5.Ulysses by James Joyce (1070)
6.How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (960)
7.A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (959)
8.Project Gutenberg "10K" DVD (798)
9.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(715)
10.Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert
Einstein (677)
11.Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (676)
12.The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (660)
13.The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (635)
14.Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens (605)
15.The Real Mother Goose (572)
16.The Iliad by Homer (556)
17.The World English Bible (WEB): Luke by Anonymous (549)
18.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (545)
19.Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 by Havelock Ellis
(539)
20.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (522)
21.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (495)
22.Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (483)
23.Dracula by Bram Stoker (473)
24.The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (458)
25.Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (447)

Martin