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Ok here are a few of my favourite free book/poems/scripts download sites. The books are usually in plain text (ASCII) format but you can also use other free reader software to enhance your reading experience. Tom's eTextReader allows you to read texts provided by Project Gutenburg etc in a book like manner. You can download Tom's Freeware Reader here
Another good reader is provided by yBook, from Spacejock and it can be downloaded from Spacejock This reader takes plain text (.txt) or HTML files and displays the contents as if they were printed as a paperback novel.You can also change the typeface and re-size the fonts from 8 to 24 points. It displays books two pages side by side and you can click on the pages to turn them. I do have a list of others for displaying if different formats so if you need any more information, please let me know.


The original free digital library of books
World History & Harvard Classics & reference
Shakespeare's Complete Works
Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art
Read easily
SF/Fantasy e-books & assistance for the physically impaired
Internet Public Library
Various Authors first novel or novels
Many different genres free novels
Romantic Heart]
Audio books;
Twenty-five different categories of Literature Fiction, non-fiction, poetry & dramatic works
British and Irish women poets here

Children's books Children's illustrated literature
Children/young adults books A variety of famous classic titles
Comics Comics

One for Pink-pUnk. Historical audio books here
Doctor Who e-books included rare never screened here

Theatre and scripts here
here
and here again
The list goes on and on and on. Let me know if you are interested in something in particular from Math and Science to cooking etc and I'll have a look in my files and get back to you

Thanks I'll have a look at them later.

Hope you find something that interests you

wow that's a lot of links. Thanks for those! Do you mind if I pass a few on?

You must do a lot of reading on-screen then? Not something I have thought to do myself. I've always imagined I would print them off first to read (not that I ever have) which is a bit daft as I am all for reducing paper waste, etc.

Definately something we should be promoting more of!

You wouldn't happen to know if there are any old Jackie annuals online would you? There is a story from one that I remember as a kid and would love to read again. Would have been around mid-70s.

Hi SC. Your post made me chuckle. I used to get the Jackie annual every single Christmas and the magazine on order every week. I loved it. I'll take a look for you later on when I have more time and get back to you

It's really strange you mentioning Jackie. I was in Borders the other night and they had Jackie annuals on a huge Jackie stand. They even had Jackie knitting kits I think they were on sale too.

Hi SC sorry I've been mega busy, I promise to take a look for you tomorrow I haven’t forgotten. I just thought I'd let you know that the Jackie annuals and knitting kits are now on sale at our Borders. If you have one near to you.

That's OK, I didn't realise I had a reply on this as my pending list doesn't seem to be working. Anyone know why that would be?

A (grown-up) friend of mine got a Jackie annual for christmas, which is what made me think of it. Funny how it is getting big again!

All of my subscibed posts were sent to my trash folder, I am with Yahoo. That is up until today and they have all of a sudden started to appear in my inbox.