Free Books

[Corey]

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/

Man I *love* the internet! :yes

[Intrigued]

Here are a couple links that you should really enjoy then!

http://www.gutenberg.org/ (world famous offering!)

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

[gbrown]

What's really sad is how many teachers, and teachers of teachers (as in "my professors in graduate school") are totally oblivious of things like this! When I'd bring up sites like this in my classroom I'd be met with the Deer in the Headlamps look. (:wow) So, here I am a 54 year old geek taking classes to be a teacher teaching the TEACHERS where the tools they need are. Geez.

GcB

[longedge]

That's a great site you've come up with there Corey :yes. You have to admire the altruism.

I've used Project Gutenberg for years and still will but it's clear that a lot of effort has gone into making this site useable, and I think the effort has paid dividends. It's a really good example of web design I think, no clutter.

[Corey]

I agree. :)

[eric_darling]

A cursory glance through several tomes led to this beautiful gem by Charles Darwin (in his Autobiography):

I have been told that I was much slower in learning than my younger sister Catherine, and I believe that I was in many ways a naughty boy.
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/european/TheAutobiographyofCharlesDarwin/chap1.html

[gbrown]

Speaking of Darwin... a couple of years ago on a trip to London I took an afternoon off to visit Darwin's house in the country. (http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100200800k00800d) It was fascinating to see the grounds that Darwin wandered in doing his work on his most famous tome: The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits.

Many of the plants that Darwin himself planted are still growing on the grounds.

GcB