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Recently someone posted a link to a website that had several thousand free books that you could download, but now that want it I cant find it. Can someone give me a thread?

Thanks, zguy

-- zguy (iwant@goodbook.com), January 08, 2000

Answers

I do believe that you are looking for http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Don't know how to make it a hot link, sorry. Mousie

-- Mousie (mousie@mymousehole.com), January 08, 2000.


Here ya go, zguy...

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

-- Yan (no@no.no), January 08, 2000.


Mousie and Yan

Thanks a lot! I really appricate it!

zguy

-- zguy (iwant@goodbook.com), January 08, 2000.


zguy

Here are a few links to online books. The "PROJECT GUTENBERG" is the first link and they were the first to start putting books online. Back in the days when Mosaic was the browser of choice. How times have changed.

First Books

PROJECT GUTENBERG - Catalog By Title - Main Index -
Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Spell of the Yukon, The
Tales of the Klondyke
White Fang
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Sea-Wolf (Jack London)
Dante's Hell
I Ching tr. by Richard Wilhelm
Sun Tzu on The Art of War
The Sun-tzu
Mencius
Tao Teh King by Lao-Tzu
World Wide Web Homebrew Homepage
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Walden
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or,
Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life,< /A>
I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume I, HTML)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 2, HTML)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 3, HTML)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 4, HTML)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 5, HTML)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 6, HTML)
A Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
Pollyanna
United States Constitution, The
Zen and the Art of Internet
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Edison, His Life and Inventions
Etext of Beowulf
Ethics (Part I) by Benedict de Spinoza
Ethics (Part II) by Benedict de Spinoza
Ethics (Part III) by Benedict de Spinoza
Ethics (Part IV) by Benedict de Spinoza :
Ethics (Part V) by Benedict de Spinoza :
The U. S. Bill of Rights
Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Foolish Dictionary, The: An exhausting work of reference to
Heritage of the Sioux, The
Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version, The
The Bible (King James Version)< /A>
French Revolution, The
Tarzan of the Apes



-- Brian (imager@home.com), January 08, 2000.


It's moved already; now at the University of Pennsylvania:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

BTW,

"It's not a Y2K problem," Cantrell said. "It's a 'this system is unacceptable' problem."

"It is not a Y2K failure," Dave Hill, head of Government's Year 2000 Project said yesterday. "It is a Y2K contingency action," he said in reference to the shutting down of the system.

-- Beached Whale (beached_whale@hotmail.com), January 08, 2000.



It looks like Ill be busy for a while with this project!

Thanks everybody,

zguy

-- zguy (iwant@goodbook.com), January 08, 2000.


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