[2021 marks the 50th birthday of Project Gutenberg, the amazing web resource for full texts from across literary and cultural history. So this week I wanted to share a handful of the American literary works you can read in full on PG, leading up to this crowd-sourced reading list—add yours in comments, please!]
On the overall
question of reading in different formats, Olivia Lucier writes, “I did start to read Anna Karenina on Project Gutenberg….lasted
about 7 chapters. I have read many ‘books on tape’ as I still say and it is
difficult to follow characters. Seeing a name versus hearing it makes a
difference in comprehension. As complex as Anna
Karenina is, hearing it versus seeing it made it VERY difficult.”
Other online
collections:
Rachel Weeks
Bright shares this “working list of open
access 19th-century periodicals.”
Ilene Goldman tweets, “I’m a big fan
of the Hathi
Trust Digital Library. I’ve found some real gems there.”
One of my
favorite librarians, Jenny Fielding,
writes, “And of course—free ebooks and audiobooks through
your public and academic libraries.”
Pearl Harbor
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What would
you add to our reading list?
No comments:
Post a Comment