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Posted on: September 22nd, 2009 The White Moll by Frank L. Packard

The White Moll by Frank L. Packard

Posted on: August 6th, 2009 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell – Project Gutenberg

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell via MeFi

Posted on: August 4th, 2009 The Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie – The Secret Adversary

Posted on: August 31st, 2008 yBook

yBook – Ebook reader and maker.

Posted on: July 24th, 2008 RoaldDahlFans.com

Roald Dahl Fan Site

Some Stories

Posted on: June 24th, 2008 His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman’s ideas behind His Dark Materials via Metafilter.  Links to a lot of good resources for the books that inspired the substandard film ‘The Golden Compass.’

Posted on: April 17th, 2008 SpaceWesterns.com

SpaceWesterns.com: The e-zine of the Space Western sub-genre.  From boingboing

Posted on: March 3rd, 2008 Danger! A True History of a Great City’s Wiles and Temptations

Danger! A True History of a Great City’s Wiles and Temptations

[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24717/24717.txt the text file]

via [http://www.boingboing.net boing boing]

Posted on: February 20th, 2008 Removing Carriage Returns

I like the stuff available on [http://www.gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg]. Lost of old stuff that I never got a chance to take a look at in my youth. But it’s all text and that can be a problem for printing and reading electronically. At least for Word. So, removing the linebreaks and the legal mumbo jumbo can help.

To Find/Replace End of Line Carriage Returns in a Gutenberg Doc:

# Open the txt file in Word
# Find and Replace all Double Carriage Returns
## Open ‘Replace’
## In the ‘Find’ box, enter ^p^p
## In the ‘Replace’ box, enter a set of characters you know won’t appear in the work. I use ‘bulzplop’
## Click ‘Ok’
# When that’s finished running, replace all Single Carriage Returns
## Open ‘Replace’ if it isn’t open already
## In the ‘Find’ box, enter ^p
## In the ‘Replace’ box, enter one blank space
## Click ‘Ok’
# When that has finished running, replace all of your ’special’ characters with Double Carriage returns
## Open ‘Replace’ if it isn’t open already
## In the ‘Find’ box, enter bulzplop
## In the ‘Replace’ box, enter ^p^p
## Click ‘Ok’

If all goes well, at this point, you should be able to safely print and enjoy your free novel. You may, however, have some small clean up here and there.

Posted on: February 17th, 2008 The Short Story Library

The Short Story Library.  Lots of good stuff.