I went to World EBook Fair' site and found this site to be a little confusing about what I was to be looking for or at. I eventually scrolled down to Project Gutenburg and typed in Brown, Rita Mae. Nothing found for her but I saw to the side Top 100 and went there. It was great to see requested classics by Dickens, Twain, Bronte, Carroll, Baum, Austen, Anonymous, Eliot and others. This particular type of website needs a tutorial for me and I suspect other to get around. It seems to have a good number of classics, but I am also interested in modern classics if not good modern stories for all ages. This site bares some more time to look into and tell my friends about.
I did find the children's section. I looked at biographies. It was all about men who have done famous things. Nothing about women. Give this more time and money and this will hopefully change. They did put women authors in other selections.
I have a question-Do people like to read books using a computer? Or do people like to print the book?
I then went to LibriVox. I am impressed with this site. There is an FAQ as well as other items to help the reader get started and understand this website. Instructions are easy to follow. It looks more user friendly. I would share this site with students.
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My understanding of Project Gutenburg is that it consists of titles in the public domain which does limit it to the older works.
I can't speak for others but I love reading on my Kindle when traveling. I don't mind reading on it at home but have piles of 'real' books around and refuse to buy ebooks til they're gone except for travel. My daughter, however, will read about half the time on her computer. First she was reading the first chapters of books but now she also is purchasing ebooks to read online. Its a different generation.
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