The top 100 free Gutenberg Project books

Submitted by Blake on March 31, 2008 - 4:27am
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Life Hacker Points The Way to The top 100 free Gutenberg Project books: "To determine the ranking we count the times each file gets downloaded. Both HTTP and FTP transfers are counted. Only transfers from ibiblio.org are counted as we have no access to our mirrors log files. Multiple downloads from the same IP address on the same day count as one download. IP addresses that download more than 100 files a day are considered robots and are not considered. Books made out of multiple files like most audio books are counted if any file is downloaded."

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Submitted by Lee Hadden on March 31, 2008 - 2:08pm.

I often dowload Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) books for my PDA. They are wonderful for riding the subway in Washington, DC, where there isn't room to open up a newspaper. Or when my wife is driving and listening to her books on tape. Or when I sit at the back of a conference room as some idiot colonel (or contractor or professor or politician) drones on and on about nothing of importance.
I can catch up on the stuff I didn't read in High School English, as well as the other stuff I should have read over the years, but haven't.

R. Lee Hadden (These are my own opinions!)