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[broken arm]

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some interesting stuff in here

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[Latex lizzie]

Broken arm you are my new besty friend Thank you thank you thank you..I was going to have to buy some books for college that are here and you have just saved me €€€€€€€'s. Why is more of the interweb not as cool as this..

 

[Rene]

Why is more of the interweb not as cool as this..

Some of it is:


http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
http://www.bartleby.com/
http://www.bibliomania.com/
http://www.blackmask.com/page.php
http://www.books-on-line.com/bol/default.cfm
http://ebookdirectory.com/search/Literature/more3.html
http://www.e-text.org/text/
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/
http://www.hiddencave.com/
http://horrormasters.com/
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html

And a few for those who can read French:
http://www.bmlisieux.com/
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
http://jydupuis.apinc.org/index.htm
http://desade.free.fr/

I haven't the time to review each one, but lets just say if you can't find what you're looking for somewhere in there, then you need help...

 

[Latex lizzie]

Nice on thanks. I guess I've saved about 200 yo-yo printing off text books here.

 

[Rene]

Nice on thanks. I guess I've saved about 200 yo-yo printing off text books here.

Erh, unless you get free printing at work or something, its still cheaper to read them on the computer/palm thingy etc, the downside being the opthalmologists bills later on... (Don't attempt the complete works of Shakespeare without medical supervision, it could cost you your sight, and then you'd have to resort to those "talking books", - Urghg; the very thought )

Now that I think of it, some of those narky folks on the internet put stuff up on protected pdf's - which you can't print, however, theres a little trick I learned earlier, and its a simple as pressing one single button: [Print Screen]. Paste into word , unfortunately, you'll need to be prepared to spend a while editing the result, somewhat tedious, but perhaps worth it.

There ye go!

 

[broken arm]

Now that I think of it, some of those narky folks on the internet put stuff up on protected pdf's - which you can't print, however, theres a little trick I learned earlier, and its a simple as pressing one single button: [Print Screen]. Paste into word , unfortunately, you'll need to be prepared to spend a while editing the result, somewhat tedious, but perhaps worth it.

There ye go!

some protected pdf's are only protected from printing and don't have an issue with saving as a .txt file or copying and pasting the text. Although you need Acrobat as opposed to just the reader. ah well. If you come across one let me know and I can try and sort it out.

 

[Rene]

some protected pdf's are only protected from printing and don't have an issue with saving as a .txt file or copying and pasting the text. Although you need Acrobat as opposed to just the reader. ah well. If you come across one let me know and I can try and sort it out.

True.
Interested parties can check .pdf file properties in File-> Document Properties-> Security. This will tell you whats allowed/prohibited etc.
Still, beats buying and lugging books around.