That's right.  They are books from the Gutenberg Project.  In addition all
the books in the Texas Accelerated Reading Program are available on CD with
the Kurzweil.

Karen O'Kain

--On Saturday, June 23, 2001, 11:08 PM -0400 MARLENE MCINTOSH
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I believe that there is already a CD-ROM with over 1100 books in ASCII
> text format that comes with the Kurzweil 3000 format.
>
> Marlene McIntosh
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 06/23/01 20:12 PM >>>
> Hi listers! thought I would send this forwarded message.
> David from Arizona.
>
>
>
> ----------
> | From: richard seltzer <[log in to unmask]>
> | To: richard seltzer <[log in to unmask]>
> | Subject: books on CD ROM (the next stage beyond PLEASE COPY THIS DISK)
> | Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:34 PM
> |
> | At one point or another your requested information regarding PLEASE COPY
> | THIS DISK, our project to make public domain books available on
> diskettes.
> |
> | After eight years of our doing that, it's now high time to make these
> texts
> | (and far more) available on CD ROM -- providing many more books at far
> less
> | cost in an easy to use format.  We're calling this project SEEDY PRESS
> -- | books on CD ROM.
> |
> | Many of you probably already have general collections of popular classic
> | texts on CD ROM.
> |
> | But is that all you need?
> |
> | I'd like to make available an enormous number of texts, providing
> greater | variety of choice and breadth and depth than what you are
> familiar with. | That would give
> | you the opportunity to read the other works of authors that you have
> sampled
> | before and to pursue topics of interest to you in the detail you wish,
> | rather than being dependent on the selections that others have made for
> you.
> |
> | I just built the first of these CDs -- American Literature before 1920.
> It
> | consists of 349 books, in plain ASCII text, with each author's works in
> a | separate directory, and with a comprehensive HTML index page with
> links to
> | all the exts, for easy navigation. The price is $29 (i.e., less than
> nine
> | cents per book).
> |
> | Authors include: Louisa Mae Alcott, Horatio Alger, B.M. Bower, Ambrose
> | Bierce, Willa Cather, James Fennimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, Richard
> Harding
> | Davis, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Zane Grey, Bret Harte,
> | Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Olvier Wendell Holmes, William Dean
> Howells,
> | Washington Irving, Henry James, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
> | Herman Melville, Frank Norris, Edgar Allan Poe, Upton Sinclair, Henry
> David
> | Thoreau, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Walt Whitman, Stewart Edward
> | White, and many others.
> |
> | It includes well-known works and also works that are very hard to find
> and
> | have been out of print for decades. The collection of Westerns, by
> authors
> | like Bret Harte and Zane Grey, is particularly interesting.
> |
> | You can see the detailed table of contents at
> | http://www.samizdat.com/amlitcd.html
> |
> | If there is enough demand to justify the work involved, I'd like to put
> | together four more CDs, in the same format, and to add new books to each
> of
> | these CDs as they become available.
> |
> | The other CDs would cover British/Canadian/Australian Literature,
> Nonfiction
> | (history, science, religion, etc.), World literature (in English
> translation
> | and also in the original language, when available), and Children's
> Books. | They too would have hundreds of books and would sell for $29
> each.  The full
> | set of five would probably amount to between 1200 and 1500 books -- a
> | complete library. (All would be texts published before 1920, and hence
> in | the public domain.)
> |
> | Please let me know if you like this approach.
> |
> | Suggestions welcome.
> |
> | Richard
> |
> | Richard Seltzer, [log in to unmask], www.samizdat.com
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