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May I quickly say err I draw the wrath & fury of Lolth these aren?t warez.
The publishing house Baen has put some it?s books on the web in HTML format.
I gather this is an attempt to interest the reader in other published works by the authors. The books are of mixed quality but with some good ones (eg Fallen Angels). www.baen.com/library
I found that using a file sharing program called 'xolox' was quite good for downloading free e-books. You can download the program from www.zeropaid.com. The program was disabled for a while but has since been re-activated. Definitely worth a look
A couple of good sites I've come across in my travels are:
1. esspc-ebooks.com (My personal favourite - check out the Computer section where they have three excellent reads in The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling, Underground by Suelette Dreyfus and a long essay by Neal Stephenson called In the Beginning was the Command Line. I downloaded these to my Pocket PC and thoroughly enjoyed all three, even on that little screen :-)
A site lauched by Mary Hanafin, Minister of State at the Department of An Taoiseach launched the Storytelling in the Liberties website at the Digital Hub Technology innovation centre. The website hosts 210 stories all produced by school children from the Liberties area in central Dublin.
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Note: many printers these days will print two (or 4) pages on one sheet of paper and will do duplex (both sides of the page) as well - so you can be environmentally friendly (and smaller bundles to carry out)
This here is a great website for the holy books (and many others) of various mythologies. As you can imagine, there is no copyright on the likes of the Epic of Gilgamesh or the Vedas, or even on Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan, so it's okay.
i was just wondering what are the requirements for a book to go out of copywright? does the author have to be dead 70 years or something?
(i noticed all the hp lovecraft stuff mentioned at the start of the thread is gone now. ive never read any of his stuff but i loved the "alone in the dark" game on pc and i think that was based on his stuff so i was looking to read some)
probably been mentioned here already but here is a couple of great short stories that i read recently: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Irving Washington
and The Guest of Dracula by Bram Stoker
One of the children's books that was central to my childhood was James Stephens' Irish Fairy Tales - basically retellings of some of the Fiannaíocht. You can actually still buy it, with some difficulty, and if you can get a copy (especially the beautiful Gill & Macmillan reprint of the 1924 edition using the original plates issued in 1979, which has the illustrations by Arthur Rackham) it's much more pleasurable to read that way.
But if you can't get hold of a physical copy, the book is available here:
Take a look at "The Birth of Bran" if you're doggy Tuan Mac Cairil if you're pantheistic, and any chapter if you're a lover of good writing and great storytelling.
