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Renascence Editions Collection, 561 HTML eBook Files
Swami Center Collection, 78 HTML eBook Files
Tony Kline Collection, 223 HTML eBook Files
Widger Library, 2,600 HTML eBook Files
CIA's Electronic Reading Room, 2,019 Reference Files
=======Grand Total Files=========~137,142 Total Files=====
Average Size of the Collections 8,067.18 Total Files
These eBooks are catalogued as per the instructions of
their donors: some are one file per book; some have a
file for each chapter; and some even have a file for a
single page or poem. . .or are overcounted for reasons
I have not mentioned. . .each of which could cause the
overcounting or duplication of numbers.
If we presume 2 out of 3 of these files are overcounts,
that leaves a unique book total of
~45,714 Unique eBooks
If we presume 3 out of 4 of these files are overcounts,
that leaves a unique book total of
~34,286 Unique eBooks
*
The new overall collection size, which has reduced the
need to account for duplications and eBooks with files
for each chapter, etc.
75,000+ Unique eBooks
***
Please also note that over 25,000 eBooks are listed via
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In addition: The Internet Public Library had a similar
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happening with the IPL, please let us know. Inquiries,
made months ago, and again recently, have not turned up
any current information.
You can try a new IPL service at:
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
It would appear that The Internet Public Library ended
its first incarnation with about 22,284 entries, which
has now been surpassed by the Online Books Page.
Still looking for more Internet Public Library info.
***
Today Is Day #168 of 2006
This Completes Week #24 and Month #05.50 [364 days this year]
196 Days/30 Weeks To Go [We get 52 Wednesdays this year]
007 Books To Go To #20,000
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1st Wednesday of the month/year]
77 Weekly Average in 2006
61 Weekly Average in 2005 [Counting 216 PGEu]
57 Weekly Average in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
78 Weekly Average in 2004
79 Weekly Average in 2003
47 Weekly Average in 2002
24 Weekly Average in 2001
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FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1846
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format]
Old Christmas, by Washington Irving 1850
Aug 1999 The Yellow Crayon, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPO#5][ycrynxxx.xxx] 1849
Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard 1848
Aug 1999 Songs, Merry and Sad, by John Charles McNeill [sngmsxxx.xxx] 1847
Aug 1999 The Vision Splendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx] 1846
Aug 1999 Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #5][zdbsnxxx.xxx] 1845
Aug 1999 The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx] 1844
[AKA: The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham]
Aug 1999 Vera, The Medium, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#29][veramxxx.xxx] 1843
Aug 1999 Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #10][strgfxxx.xxx] 1842
Z. Marcas, by Honore de Balzac 1841
[Tr.: Clara Bell and others]
The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser 1840
Aug 1999 Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf [otbeqxxx.xxx] 1839
Jul 1999 A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson [nvycrxxx.xxx] 1838
The Prince and The Pauper, Complete, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1837
(See also #7154-#7162)
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Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
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With 19,994 eBooks online as of June 21, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.77 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,235,847 x 19,994 x $.77 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
[By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.]
[Just turned 299 million this week!]
*
A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.50 Value Per Book To 100 Million
With 19,994 eBooks online as of June 21, 2006 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.50 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.61 when we had 16,518 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
At 19,994 eBooks in 34 Years and 11.50 Months We Averaged
572 Per Year
48 Per Month
1.57 Per Day
At 1846 eBooks Done In The 168 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
11.0 Per Day
77 per Week
334 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
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are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
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From: hart at pglaf.org (Michael Hart)
Date: Wed Jun 21 06:41:32 2006
Subject: [gweekly] !@! Just TWO Books Needed for 20,000!!!
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*******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971********
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Project Gutenberg of Australia Passes 700 eBooks!
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which leaves only 2 more to get us to 20,000. . . .
I am preparing this edition as if none of those will come in during the hour
I have left before I usually send out the Newsletter, but I will wait a half
hour for Greg to come into his office to see how he is doing.
With one hour to go we are at 19,994 and counting. . . .
With 35 minutes to go we are at 19,997 and counting. . . .
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*eBook Milestones
*Introduction
*Hot Requests, New Sites and Announcements
*Continuing Requests and Announcements
*Progress Report
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*Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Report
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*Have We Given Away A Trillion Yet?
*Flashback
*Weekly eBook update:
This is now in PT2 of the Weekly Newsletter
Also collected in the Monthly Newsletter
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42 New This Week From PG Australia [Australian, Canadian Copyright Etc.]
0 New This Week From PGEu [European Copyrights, Life + 50 and 70]
0 New This Week From PG PrePrints
61 New This Week To Public Domain eBooks Under US Copyright
103 New This Week [Including PG Australia, PG Europe and PrePrints]
*Headline News from Edupage, etc.
*Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists
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*eBook Milestones*
19,998 eBooks As Of Today At These Four PG Sites
2 to go to 20,000!!!
19,998 Project Gutenberg [+65] Grand Total [Automated]
710 Australian eBooks [+42] [Included in above line]
318 Gutenberg Europe [+0] [Including after July 4]
368 PG PrePrint Site [ +0] [Included in above total]
103 Total New Books This Week
19,989 Grand Total of all four sites
19,994 [via our automated program]
[Please note we have several counting methods,
and they often differ by several book that we
have to hunt down by hand to reconcile.]
~99.99% of the Way to 20,000
***569 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971***
16,823 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001
That's ~261 eBooks per Month for ~64.25 Months
1,743 New eBooks in 2006 at These Four Sites
40 New eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders
8,607 total from Distributed Proofreaders
Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B]
[Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers]
We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004
We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005
[Including PG Australia]
We Are Averaging ~332 eBooks Per Month This Year
[Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints]
All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 76 eBooks Per Week In 2006
103 This Week
372 This Month [Jun]
It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks
It took ~32 months, from 2003 to 2006 for our last 10,000 eBooks
It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100
It took ~2.8 years from Oct. 2003 to Jun. 2006 from 10,000 to ~19,994
[The above changes due to the opening of Project Gutenberg
sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org]
[Now including totals from Australia, Europe and PrePrints]
[Apologies, it will take a while to integrate everything
not all statistics may be totally equalized yet]
[Daily PGEu stats at http://dp.rastko.net/default.php]
[Daily DP stats at http://www.pgdp.net]
BTW, we just started a new "PrePrints" site at PG,
so if you come across eBooks that aren't ready for
primetime, but that should be saved for upgrading,
we have a place to put them.
[Daily PrePrints stats at http://preprints.readingroo.ms/]
Please note that sometimes it takes a few weeks for entire
collections to fully appear in the PrePrints Section, thus
the count sometimes jumps by a large number when the files
are eventually completed and added in. Also note that the
PrePrint files are just that, PrePrints, and thus may move
later to other locations, including the main collection or
The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, etc. For example,
on June 14, 200 WAP compatible cell phone eBooks appeared,
and will likely be moved to other collection points later.
The entire process of working out the details just to send
them to the PrePrints Section took well over a month.
Even with the speeded up process of the PrePrints Section,
it still takes a certain amount of time to collect and put
such a large collection online in a proper manner.
*
75,000+ eBooks at the PG Consortia Center
http://www.gutenberg.cc
[Including after July 4]
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***Introduction
[The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly
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This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter
FREE INTERNET REFERENCE SITE
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"to provide living context and perspective to this most technological
of human inventions", and has received input from many people that helped
build the Internet. It currently receives about 3 thousand visitors a day,
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE GRANT FROM MICROSOFT
Microsoft has announced a donation of as much as $30 million in
software to high school and college students in Massachusetts. The
software package will include software-writing and Web-development
tools and is valued at about $800 per high school student and $2,400
per college student. The software will be offered to all public high
schools and colleges in the state; the total amount of the donation
will depend on how many of the state's students participate in the
program. Massachusetts has about 300,000 high school and 125,000
college students. Nate Mackinnon, a spokesman for the Massachusetts
Department of Education, said the donation could help minimize a
growing gap in science between U.S. and international students by
seeding an interest in technology in high school and being able to
foster those skills in college.
Associated Press, 13 June 2006
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5026245
NIELSEN TO TRACK ONLINE VIEWERSHIP
[The Times They Are A'Changin!]
Responding to a changing landscape of media, Nielsen Media Research has
said it will begin tracking viewership of television programs over the
Internet. Media companies have criticized Nielsen for only tracking shows
that people watch on televisions in their homes, even as growing
numbers of consumers watch shows on computers, cell phones, or other
devices, both at home and away from home. The new tracking tools will
be introduced over several years and could have a considerable bearing
on ratings of shows, particularly sporting events, which analysts
believe are especially likely to be watched outside the home. Nielsen
said it would provide its "Nielsen families"--those whose television
viewing provides ratings data--with portable devices so they can keep
tabs on any television they watch away from their homes.
Wall Street Journal, 15 June 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115030869031780267.html
FEDS SUE TO PROTECT NSA ACTIVITIES
The U.S. Justice Department has filed suit against the attorney general
of New Jersey to prevent her from finding out whether telecom companies
in the state have provided customer information to the National
Security Agency (NSA). An uproar followed the reporting last month
that several companies had given call data to the NSA as part of its
efforts to find and fight terrorists. Citing a range of privacy concerns,
many objected to those transfers of information and filed lawsuits to
prevent further such cooperation. Zulmia Farber, attorney general of
New Jersey, sent subpoenas to a number of telecom companies, seeking
to find out whether they had provided data to the NSA. The new lawsuit
from the Justice Department argues that complying with those subpoenas
would reveal information that would ultimately threaten national security.
The suit claims that Farber does not have the authority to request such
information.
CNET, 16 June 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6084665.html
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Extra!
Nokia and Siemens are merging to create a combined
cell phone and Internet provider system with great
horizontal and vertical integration.
They say the number of cell phones will be
FOUR BILLION
in 2010
All the more reason for Project Gutenberg to make
cell phone eBooks more and more available.
The number of computers in 2010 may not even make
it to two billion.
*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Ben Bradlee, Editor of the Washington Post during the huge
events surrounding the Watergate burglary by a White House
created "Plumbers Unit" to "stop leaks," said in interview
conversations with Jim Lehrer of The PBS News Hour, that a
story he withheld at the request of very high officials in
Washington about the US wiretaps of Russian communications
via an undersea cable, then appeared on NBC while he could
have allowed Bob Woodward, who also broke Watergate, to do
the story in The Washington Post. President Reagan called
Katherine Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post and
personally convinced her not to run the story.
Ben Bradlee said reporting truth was the highest standard,
except when lives were at stake, or national security.
However, he added that most of the time when someone would
claim national security, it was really their own security.
The Russians had had the Ivy Bells listening device on KGB
museum display for years, so there is some questions as to
how much national security was involved, but Reagan said a
number of terrorist incidents had been foiled in just that
year due to information from Ivy Bells, and that the story
might make the Russians think again about the subject.
In addition Bradlee said, "Don't be a member of anything,"
country clubs, press clubs, etc., you must be independent.
Source: PBS, 6/19
Codename: Operation Ivy Bells
Search: "Ivy Bells" Moscow
See: Veils, The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987,
by Bob Woodward
*
CIA Director John McLaughlin said that as soon as the 2nd
plane hit The World Trade Center everyone knew it was Bin
Laden carrying out his threats.
Frontline, PBS 6/20
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The originating Project Gutenberg sites will reach a total
of 20,000 eBooks in a few hours.
The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, eBooks originating
from ~100 other eBook sites and donated for our use, would
likely reach a total of 80,000 eBooks by July 4.
Thus the entire Project Gutenberg at all five sites should
be ~100,000 eBooks on July 4, 2006.
[We are looking for someone to catalogue the relationships
between the various collections, identify duplications and
create a general overall catalog. Thanks for your help!]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Once a minute in the U.S. an ambulance is turned away from
a hospital because of overcrowding and "many hospitals have
shut down emergency rooms to save money."
NBC News, CBS News 06/14 ABC News 06/16
*
51% of colleges students have visited MySpace, 78% for Facebook.
Inside Higher Ed, 16 June 2006
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/16/internet
*
Noticed an Increase in Radio and Television Commercials?
There are now segments on the radio that contain more commercial
time than programming time. . .on a regular basis.
However, I noted when logging one of these today, that they seem
to have gotten some message about just how much they can include
as the commercials roughly equalled the substantive material.
When I first started monitoring this it appeared as if sometimes
the advertising was literally 5 times as long as the "program."
Interestingly enough, these are likely driving listeners to just
channel surf more and more, as radios and televisions become the
frontlines of a new kind of "economic warfare" in which the ads,
such as they are, are being force fed through alimentaries of an
ever more angry listening and viewing audience.
The trouble is that these advertisers are losing their audience,
their prime audience, those who can afford to buy all the stuff,
both to non-commercial subscription services and Tivo, etc., who
lets them skip the commercials altogether.
By the way, in case you didn't know, legislation has been put in
committees to FORCE the commercials to be included in programs--
which will lead to even more channel surfing.
As long a people have an alternative, and commercials are not an
entertaining format, people will find ways to ignore them.
Some Madison Avenue types are making millions by making ads that
you can't really tell are ads, or that contain music you want to
hear and so keep the channel where it is. . . .
See previous story about "Product Integration."
*
One of the longest running TV shows in the world will end July
30, 2006. "Top of the Pops" debuted 1964; The Rolling Stones,
and The Beatles started and ended that first show.
Today the show is syndicated to over 100 nations, all over the
world, but the BBC says it is time to hand over the reins to a
new music media generation that gets its music from iPods, the
Internet, and other sources.
Today the show brings in just barely a million BBC viewers but
there was no count for the 100+ other countries, to compare to
the 19 million viewers at its highest ratings.
Source: The Guardian Unlimited
*
In local news, one of the U of Illinois home towns will double
it's property taxes to provide for the poor, and will match up
now with the property taxes of the other home town. Champaign
and Urbana are the UI home towns.
The trouble with property taxes is that then then you rent the
property they pretend you own. I paid more in property taxes,
this year, than I ever paid in rent any year of my life.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
*
Poem of the Week
by Simona Sumanaru
Joyride
You make me be a child
with colored toys of playfulness and youth
and pinkish cheeks of passion and laughter
running down the streets bare feet
white dress fluttering as I go
carefree, hopeful, unaware
bumping into these little old ladies
going to church on early Sundays
apologizing with a song
and riding aback the morning breeze
rushing to meet Spring
and as I listen to the blooming trees
I learn that I was born to be riding
on the swirl of love.
(C) 2006 Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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[library.]
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The Victorian Age in Literature, by G. K. Chesterton 18639
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[Files: 18639.txt; 18639-8.txt; 18639-0.txt; 18639-h.htm]
Ideal Commonwealths, by Various 18638
[Editor: Henry Morley]
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Constitution of the U.S.: Analysis and Interpretation, ed. by E. Corwin 18637
[Title: The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and
Interpretation]
[Editor: Edward Corwin]
[Subtitle: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the]
[United States to June 30, 1952]
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The Story of Newfoundland, by Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead 18636
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The Treaty Held with the Indians, by Various 18635
[Title: The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at]
[Philadelphia, in July 1742]
[Subtitle: To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy]
[of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents,]
[and Allies]
[Editor: Sir George Thomas]
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First Impressions of the New World, by Isabella Strange Trotter 18634
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My Lady of Doubt, by Randall Parrish 18633
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Crossroads of Destiny, by Henry Beam Piper 18632
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The Lady of Fort St. John, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood 18631
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The Tale of Frisky Squirrel, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18630
[Ill.: Eleanore Fagan]
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Nature Near London, by Richard Jefferies 18629
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Oracao funebre, by Antonio Vasconcellos 18628
[Full title: Oracao funebre recitada nas exequias do Illm.^o e Exm.^o]
[Sr. Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18628 ]
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Notre-Dame-d'Amour, by Jean Aicard 18627
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18627 ]
[Files: 18627-8.txt; 18627-h.htm]
The Tale of Major Monkey, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18626
[Illustrator: Lawrence Brehm]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18626 ]
[Files: 18626.txt; 18626-h.htm]
Contemporary American Literature, John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert 18625
[Subtitle: Bibliographies and Study Outlines]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18625 ]
[Files: 18625.txt; 18625-8.txt; 18625-h.htm]
Rouva Katariina Boije ja hanen tyttarensa, by Frederika Runeberg 18624
[Subtitle: Kertomus ison vihan ajoilta]
[Translator: Arvo Lempiranta]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18624 ]
[Files: 18624-8.txt]
Le saucisson a pattes I, by Eugene Chavette 18623
[Subtitle: Fil-a-beurre]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18623 ]
[Files: 18623-8.txt; 18623-h.htm]
Captain Sam, by George Cary Eggleston 18622
[Subtitle: The Boy Scouts of 1814]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18622 ]
[Files: 18622.txt; 18622-8.txt; 18622-h.htm; ]
The Story of Cooperstown, by Ralph Birdsall 18621
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Phantasten, by Erich von Mendelssohn 18620
[Language: German]
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[Files: 18620-8.txt; 18620-0.txt; 18620-h.htm]
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II., by Various 18619
[Subtitle: The Songs of Scotland of the past half century]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18619 ]
[Files: 18619.txt; 18619-8.txt; 18619-0.txt; 18619-h.htm]
Stories of Later American History, by Wilbur F. Gordy 18618
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18618 ]
[Files: 18618.txt; 18618-8.txt; 18618-h.htm; ]
On The Blockade, by Oliver Optic 18617
[Subtitle: SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18617 ]
[Files: 18617.txt; 18617-8.txt; 18617-h.htm]
Moral Principles and Medical Practice, by Charles Coppens 18616
[Subtitle: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18616 ]
[Files: 18616.txt; 18616-8.txt; 18616-0.txt; 18616-h.htm]
Hugh, by Arthur Christopher Benson 18615
[Subtitle: Memoirs of a Brother]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18615 ]
[Files: 18615.txt; 18615-8.txt; 18615-h.htm; ]
At the Back of the North Wind, by Elizabeth Lewis and George MacDonald 18614
[Ill.: Maria L. Kirk]
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The Golden Scorpion, by Sax Rohmer 18613
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>From the Housetops, by George Barr McCutcheon 18612
[Illustrator: F. Graham Cootes]
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Les vrais sous-offs, by Georges Darien and Edouard Dubus 18611
[Subtitle: Reponse a M. Descaves]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18611 ]
[Files: 18611-8.txt; 18611-h.htm]
Eloge du sein des femmes, by Claude-Francois-Xavier Mercier de Compiegne 18610
[Subtitle: Ouvrage curieux]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18610 ]
[Files: 18610-8.txt; 18610-h.htm]
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, by Felix Mendelssohn 18609
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Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, by Lewis Redner 18608
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18608 ]
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The Manobos of Mindanao, by John M. Garvan 18607
[Subtitle: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII,
First Memoir]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18607 ]
[Files: 18607-8.txt; 18607-h.htm; ]
The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods, by Hildegard G. Frey 18606
[Subtitle: Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18606 ]
[Files: 18606.txt; ]
A Pair of Patient Lovers, by William Dean Howells 18605
[Contents: A Pair of Patient Lovers]]
[ The Pursuit of the Piano]
[ A Difficult Case]
[ The Magic of a Voice]
[ A Circle in the Water]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18605 ]
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The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales, by Hans Christian Anderson 18604
[Translator: Fanny Fuller]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18604 ]
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What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, by William Graham Sumner 18603
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The Fourth R, by George Oliver Smith 18602
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Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, by Joshua Coffin 18601
[Subtitle: and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the
United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18601 ]
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Mi Ultimo Adios, by Jose Rizal 18600
[Language: Spanish]
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Bully and Bawly No-Tail, by Howard R. Garis 18599
[Illustrator: Louis Wisa]
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[Files: 18599.txt; 18599-8.txt; 18599-0.txt; 18599-h.htm]
Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6), by Various 18598
[Editor: Asa Don Dickinson]
[Subtitle: Authors and Journalists]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18598 ]
[Files: 18598.txt; 18598-8.txt; 18598-h.htm; ]
Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6), by Various 18597
[Editor: Asa Don Dickinson]
[Subtitle: Orators and Reformers]
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[Files: 18597.txt; 18597-8.txt; 18597-h.htm; ]
Ride A Cock-Horse and A Farmer Went Trotting, by Anonymous 18596
[Title: Ride A Cock-Horse To Banbury Cross & A Farmer Went Trotting
Upon His Grey Mare]
[Subtitle: R. Caldecott's Picture Books]
[Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18596 ]
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The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5), by John Marshall 18595
[Subtitle: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War]
[which Established the Independence of his Country and First]
[President of the United States]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18595 ]
[Files: 18595.txt; 18595-h.htm]
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5), by John Marshall 18594
[Subtitle: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War]
[which Established the Independence of his Country and First]
[President of the United States]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18594 ]
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The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5), by John Marshall 18592
[Subtitle: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War]
[which Established the Independence of his Country and First]
[President of the United States]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18592 ]
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The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5), by John Marshall 18591
[Subtitle: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War
which Established the Independence of his Country and First
President of the United States]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18591 ]
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The Letters of Cassiodorus, by Cassiodorus 18590
[Subtitle: Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator]
[Author: Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)]
[Translator: Thomas Hodgkin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18590 ]
[Files: 18590.txt; 18590-8.txt; 18590-h.htm]
Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, by Various 18589
[Title: The Act Of Incorporation And The By-Laws Of The Massachusetts
Homeopathic Medical Society]
[Author: Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18589 ]
[Files: 18589.txt]
George Borrow, by Edward Thomas 18588
[Subtitle: The Man and His Books]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18588 ]
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The Chums of Scranton High, by Donald Ferguson 18587
[Subtitle: Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18587 ]
[Files: 18587.txt; 18587-8.txt; 18587-h.htm; ]
La San-Felice, Tome IV, by Alexandre Dumas 18586
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18586 ]
[Files: 18586-8.txt; 18586-h.htm]
Les Nez-Perces, by Emile Chevalier 18585
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18585 ]
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The Edge of the Knife, by Henry Beam Piper 18584
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18584 ]
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Brancas; Les amours de Quaterquem, by Alfred Assollant 18583
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18583 ]
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Gypsy Breynton, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 18582
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18582 ]
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Adrift in New York, by Horatio Alger 18581
[Subtitle: Tom and Florence Braving the World]
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Los favores del mundo, by Juan Ruiz de Alarcon 18580
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/8/18580 ]
[Files: 18580-8.txt; 18580-h.htm]
Within The Enemy's Lines, by Oliver Optic 18264
[Subtitle: SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat]
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Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 June 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/06/2006060701t.htm
TWO UNIVERSITIES JOIN MICROSOFT BOOK-SCANNING PROJECT
Microsoft has announced that the libraries of the University of
California and the University of Toronto will participate in its
book-scanning project, known as Windows Live Book Search. The two
libraries joining Microsoft's program, which is being run together
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approach has been to scan books, including those still covered by
copyright, unless a copyright owner specifically objects.
CNET, 9 June 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6082258.html
BEER LOSES TOP SPOT TO IPOD
For only the second time in ten years, drinking beer has been relegated
to second on Student Monitor's biannual survey of what is "in" on
campus, with iPods slotting in at number one. The only other thing to
unseat beer: the Internet, in 1997. Eric Weil of Student Monitor said
of the latest results of its Lifestyle and Media Study, "We knew iPods
were pervasive on campus as a learning and entertainment device, but we
didn't see it rating that high." Between spring 2006 and spring 2006,
iPods jumped from 59 percent of students saying they were "in" to 73
percent. Rounding out the top ten spots on the survey are Facebook
(which tied beer for second), drinking other alcohol, text messaging,
downloading music, going to clubs, instant messaging, working out, and
coffee. Dan Updegrove, vice president for information technology at the
University of Texas at Austin, pointed out that the speed with which
"Internet-based phenomena can emerge" accounts for having so many
technologies on the top ten that did not even exist several years ago.
USA Today, 7 June 2006
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-07-ipod-tops-beer_x.htm
ITUNES IN TROUBLE IN EUROPE
Government regulators in several European countries are taking Apple to
court over the way its iTunes music service functions. Norwegian
officials have said that Apple's user agreement violates the
country's law and that the inability to play iTunes songs on non-Apple
devices likely also is illegal in Norway. Specifically at issue are
parts of Apple's user agreement that give the company the right to
change the terms without notice and that free Apple from any liability
for viruses or other harm caused by iTunes downloads. Bjorn Erik Thon,
director of the Consumer Ombudsman's Office of Norway, said his office
would hear Apple's counterargument concerning whether iTunes songs
should be playable on non-Apple equipment, but he added that he expects
the office to rule against Apple. Thon rejected an earlier claim by
Apple that limiting the songs to Apple devices discourages copyright
violations. If consumers cannot play songs they have bought, said Thon,
"they will get a download of it free from Napster," increasing piracy.
Government officials in Sweden and Denmark are expected to follow
Norway's lead in these affairs, and Britain reportedly also shares the
same concerns.
New York Times, 8 June 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/technology/08cnd-apple.html
COURT REJECTS CHALLENGE TO CALEA EXPANSION
[More Big Brother Looking Over Your Virtual Shoulders]
A federal appeals court has ruled against a challenge to an expansion
of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to
cover network traffic. CALEA requires providers of telecommunications
services to make their systems available to law enforcement for
authorized wiretapping. The FCC has sought to expand CALEA to cover
Internet networks also. The appeals court ruled 2-1 that the FCC is
permitted to apply CALEA to networks. A coalition representing higher
education had challenged the expansion of CALEA, saying that the law
was not written with data networks in mind and that such an expansion
would impose considerable costs on higher education for compliance.
Speaking for the majority, Judge David Sentelle said the FCC's
interpretation of CALEA to cover data networks was reasonable. Judge
Harry Edwards, who dissented in the opinion, said the FCC discounted
an exemption in the law for information services.
San Jose Mercury News, 9 June 2006
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
What happened to the $25 million reward for Al-Zarqawi?
*
Dr. Susan Molchan, formerly a clinical researcher at the
National Institutes of Health said, under oath, that the
spinal fluid samples given by thousands of patients from
enduring the procedure known as a "spinal tap" vanished,
just disappeared from her scientifically cooled storage,
where they were kept for Alzheimer's research.
A Congressional investigation is now underway to find if
her boss, Dr. Trey Sunderland, gave those samples valued
at millions of dollars, to pharacom giant Pfizer who has
a new Alzheimer's drug coming out.
Apparently Sunderland gave Pfizer "access" to 3200 vials
of spinal fluid valued at six million dollars, for which
he reported received a commission of just under $300,000
or about 5% of the value of the missing items.
Pfizer's new Alzheimer's drug is reportedly bringing the
company a whopping $1.6 billion just in one early year--
making it already the #1 such drug in the marketplace.
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"Mission Accomplished" May 1, 2003
"This will not end the war." June, 2006
"It will take time." June 13, 2006
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"The latest thing in technology is Open Source."
Tom Friedman, author of The Earth Is Flat, last
night as Charlie Rose made his return.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The Iraq War, like most others, will last as long as
it is politically feasible and financially rewarding
to those running the war.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
80% of men say they would marry the same woman again
if they had it to do all over again.
50% of women say they would marry the same man again
if they had it to do all over again.
*
A Kentucky Fried Chicken 3 pieces extra crispy meal,
with sides contains 15 grams = 1/2 ounce of transfat
which is more than is recommended for an entire week.
This is as much as is in 30 McBurgers.
Source: Lawsuit against KFC, CBS News, etc.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
*
Correction, the last stanza of this poem was missing last week.
Poem of the Week
by Simona Sumanaru
My Book Of Sounds
You, to me, are like a book of poems.
I am so very lucky to have found it one day
on the dusty shelf of this old book store
in which the air is hot and a little humid
like spring this year - who would have thought
spring could last that long-
The store keeper is a little old lady
with violet-grayish strands
her hands like those of a piano player
- one would expect butterflies of sound
to be taking flight from right under her fingertips-
every time she touches a book
she takes these deep breaths and closes her eyes
for a little while
as if to memorize the feel of the cover
on her music-filled finger tips
it was a first edition, it was a romance,
it was a motivational book that father read to son
before football practice
or maybe it was a family saga mother read to daughter
before the curtains of night fell down
and thoughts drifted away
into womanhood and married life
She knows them well: pages torn, pictures missing,
tiny scribblings at the end of every chapter
where a student in international politics
boldly put in his own ideas,
or maybe an educator to be sneaked in
her most affectionate considerations
before she decided to turn on the page
towards the next soul to be molded.
The old lady stops. Her eyes so wide, her hands so wise
are playing with the butterflies of air.
The buzzing sound of the old fan
standing tall in one corner
becomes the music of poetry.
That's where I found you.
(C) 2006 Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
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May 1999 Laws, by Plato [#29 and last of this Plato series][plawsxxx.xxx] 1750
[Translation of entire series by Benjamin Jowett]
Cousin Betty, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: James Waring] 1749
May 1999 Other People's Money, by Emile Gaboriau [E.G. #4][opmnyxxx.xxx] 1748
May 1999 The Red Seal, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln [redslxxx.xxx] 1747
May 1999 New Collected Rhymes, by Andrew Lang [Lang #14][nwclrxxx.xxx] 1746
May 1999 Poetical Works, by John Milton [pmsjmxxx.xxx] 1745
May 1999 Philebus, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #28][philbxxx.xxx] 1744
May 1999 Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells[HGW#17][12sadxxx.xxx] 1743
May 1999 Miss Civilization, by Richard Harding Davis [#12][miscvxxx.xxx] 1742
May 1999 The White Moll, by Frank L. Packard [Packard #2][wtmolxxx.xxx] 1741
May 1999 The Flying U's Last Stand, by B. M. Bower [BMB #8][fuslsxxx.xxx] 1740
May 1999 The Black Death/The Dancing Mania,by J.F.C. Hecker[bdadmxxx.xxx] 1739
May 1999 Statesman, by Plato [Plato #27][sttsmxxx.xxx] 1738
Facino Cane, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Clara Bell & Others] 1737
May 1999 Cromwell, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws49xxx.xxx] 1736
May 1999 Sophist, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #26][sophtxxx.xxx] 1735
The Secret Places of the Heart, by H. G. Wells 1734
May 1999 The Red Cross Girl, by Richard Harding Davis [#11][rdcrgxxx.xxx] 1733
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 1732
May 1999 Sister Songs, by Francis Thompson [F. Thompson #3][ssngsxxx.xxx] 1731
Michael, Brother of Jerry, by Jack London 1730
The Deserted Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Ellen Marriage] 1729
Apr 1999 The Odyssey, by Homer, Butcher & Lang Tr[Homer #3][dyssyxxa.xxx] 1728
Apr 1999 The Odyssey, by Homer, Tr. by Samuel butler [dyssyxxx.xxx] 1727
(See also: #348, Collection of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica)
Apr 1999 Theaetetus, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #25][thtusxxx.xxx] 1726
Heart of the West, by O. Henry [AKA: William Sidney Porter] 1725
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332 Per Month
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