Reading on the Internet

For those of you who are interested in literature, check out The Literature Network on line. It contains a lot of real literary works that you can read free of charge and they are real books, not texts written for blogs or web sites.

Also available is Project Gutenberg, which offers similar works but the quality of the transcription to online texts is not as good as the previous site.

Check them both out and make up your mind which is the best!

Paul

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