I’ve got the RSS feeds for both Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page subscribed in my Google Reader1, and cool, curious, or interesting stuff gets starred whenever I see it. Most of it will probably go onto my research reading lists rather than my for-pleasure reading lists, but here’s a sampling of what’s caught my eye recently.
- Shakespearean Playhouses by Joseph Quincy Adams
- An Essay on Professional Ethics by George Sharswood
- American Boy’s Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward Stratemeyer
- Practical Mechanics for Boys by J. S. Zerbe
- Chinese Painters by Raphael Petrucci
- The Legacy of Greece by Various
- “Security” by Poul William Anderson
- How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) by Mary Owens Crowther
And, from the Online Books Page:
- Jewish Mourning, by Daniel B. Syme
- An Address on Success in Business (1867), by Horace Greeley
- Precious Stones and Gems, Their History, Sources and Characteristics (sixth edition; London: George Bell and Sons, 1898), by Edwin W. Streeter
- Pearls and Pearling Life (London: George Bell and Sons, 1886), by Edwin W. Streeter
- A Book of Precious Stones (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910), by Julius Wodiska
- Which, oddly, I don’t like much. No drag and drop? Come on, NewsGator had drag and drop two years ago! No nested folders, either, which is a colossal pain. [back]