Books, Books, Gimme

[janedavitt]

I just went wild and downloaded all the Ruth Fielding and Betty Gordon books I could from a site offering free downloads of public domain books:

http://www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain

I've never read them, or even heard of them, but they're similar to Nancy Drew it seems and I adore those old-fashioned children's books.

My Kobo has indigestion :-)

I also snaffled the Lang Fairy books. Oh, I loved those as a child and the covers are stunning. I might try iconning some.

You would not recognize me when I come across a cache of old books, there for the taking. My eyes gleam and I get all grabby hands. It feels as if I'm backing up my childhood.

Too nifty; there's a Tom Swift book from 1914 called Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone. How's that for forward thinking?

Comments

[sid]

OOH, there went a chunk of my day! I'm going to try a few of those Fielding/Gordon books, too, along with the myriad of other goodies I spotted. :-)

[janedavitt]

So much to read, so little time :-)

[andeincascade]

Jane, thank you! I've never read them but I've seen blurbs for them in the back of my mom's Maxie books.

[janedavitt]

Oh cool! I'm looking forward to trying them very much.

[knitty_woman]

Thanks to you, I've just downloaded several dozen books I seriously doubt I will ever read (including all the Lang Fairy Tale books - as I recall, my favorite of the ones our library had was the Blue one). Drat you, Jane Davitt! At least these won't collect dust.

[janedavitt]

Heheh! This is very true ::is unrepentant::

[liz_marcs]

Oooo, a new public domain site. Me thinks my Nook is going to have indigestion as well.

[janedavitt]

I picture them with hiccups :-)