To
save the files to your Hard Drive, 'Right Click' on Download
and click 'Save Target As...'
All
the download files are in PDF.
Convert The Text
The
aim of Project Gutenberg is to provide ebooks to as many people
as possible. For this reason all their ebooks are produced using
'Plain Vanilla ASCII' or American Standard Code for Information
Interchange. Plain Vanilla ASCII can be read and searched
by 99% of the hardware and software any of us will come across.
All
the 2006 ebooks on this page have been downloaded
from Project Gutenberg and converted to the
Portable Document Format (PDF). The PDF files are larger
than the originals but they do have numbered page breaks and
the text is easily resized. This is not a criticism of PG,
they obviously provide an excellent service but converting the
books makes them more user-friendly.
If
you have 'administrative rights' to your PC, you can install
an 'ebook reader' and download your books directly from the
Project
Gutenberg catalogue.
EBook
Readers |
|
|
Plain
Vanilla ASCII |
yBook |
|
yBook
This ebook reading software provides a 'paper book' experience
on the computer screen: For a start, you get two pages side-by-side
instead of just one page in the middle of the screen. The
pages turn when you click them, just like a real book. Finally,
you can also select a textured background to make the pages
look like real paper. yBook will read html files, text files,
rtf files and pdb/prc files (Palm document format).
Get
it... |
eTextReader
This program lets you read plain text files in a book-like
manner.
Window size, font style and font size are
selectable; page breaks are inserted automatically.
You can set bookmarks, find words or phrases, or edit the
text with an internal text editor. A table of contents can
be created automatically.
Import text from different file types, including RTF and
HTML, and open files directly from zip archives.
Get it... |
ONLINE
RESOURCES
Title |
Author |
Website |
King
James Version - Bible |
Unknown |
|
Animal
Farm |
G.
Orwell |
|
1984 |
G.
Orwell |
|
Neo-Colonialism,
the Last Stage of imperialism |
Kwame
Nkrumah |
|
Project
Gutenberg of Australia
Project
Gutenberg of Australia is the sister site of Project
Gutenberg (USA). The difference is that the U.S.A and
Australia had different copyrights laws prior to 2005. This
means there are literary works in the Australian catalogue that
you won't find in Project Gutenberg (USA).
As
a general rule the works of authors who died before 1955 are
out of copyright in Australia. Works by George Orwell (died
1950), Virginia Woolf (died 1941), and James Joyce (died 1941),
just to name a few authors, are in the public domain in Australia.
Project
Gutenberg of Australia
Australian
Copyright Law & AUSFTA
How
the AUSFTA has changed the rules on duration of copyright
One of the requirements of the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement
(AUSFTA) was that both countries set minimum periods of copyright
protection that are longer than the rules previously in place
in Australia. Generally, the rules prior to 1 January 2005 were
that copyright lasted until 50 years from the end of the year
in which the creator died, or for some material, until 50 years
from the end of the year in which the material was first published.
This period has now been extended, in most cases, to 70 years
from the end of the year in which the creator died or 70 years
from the end of the year in which the material was first published.
No
revival of expired copyright
If copyright had expired before 1 January 2005, it will not
be revived, even if it is still less than 70 years since the
end of the year in which the creator died or the first publication
of the material. For example, the Australian author Miles Franklin
died in 1954. Under the old rules, copyright in those of her
works which were published during her lifetime expired 50 years
from the end of the year in which she died—that is, at
midnight on 31 December 2004. The copyright in these works has
not been revived as a result of the AUSFTA.
Australian Copyright Council
"Reading
is to the mind what exercise is to the body"
Joseph
Addison
1672 – 1719
