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I was looking at Project Gutenberg hoping to find some canonical lit I might have missed during school, eeePC reading material for transit, etc.

Then I looked at yesterday's top 10 downloads:

# The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) by J. Arthur Thomson (1669)
# Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Miles and Thomson (1147)
# Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by Paul Lacroix (807)
# History of the United States by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard (591)
# Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (563)
# Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 by Elbert Hubbard (485)
# Our Day by William Ambrose Spicer (420)
# Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens (407)
# Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (398)
# Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank (396)

Huh. Is there good stuff I'm missing or is the Illustrated History of Furniture considerably more fascinating than I'm allowing for? What's the good stuff up in this thing?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Little Journeys to the Thetans of the Great - Volume 01 by L. Bert Hubbard

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

what sort of device do you read on? There's actually tons of good stuff on gutenberg but I never have the patience to read on the computer.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

eeePC

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

HOOS have you ever read Swift's A Tale of a Tub>? It helps if you know a little bit about the religious history of the UK and you don't mind 18th century prose, but it's total lulz meets truth bombs from beginning to end and v. quotable too.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

good to know

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Get yourself some Scott Fitzgerald short stories.

― James Morrison, Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m#a9

― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2044

― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

Martin, John, 1865-1947
The Romance of Rubber (English) (as Editor)

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 23 May 2008 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/451