Get Your Literary Fix

Everyone knows that Google set out to create digital copies of every book for searching or whatever. And then there was some (expected) uproar over copyright. Laws are laws, you know. But did you know that there are websites that offer the full text of many books and that it’s perfectly legal? Once such site is The Literary Network.

This site offers the full text of over 1900 classic books and over 3000 short stories and poems. Its database of Quotations numbers over 8500. You can find more than 250 authors listed here, each with a bio page and a searchable collection of works.

I know some people would rather fill their hard drive with music or video; I prefer books. With the Literary Network, I don’t have to download a thing since it’s all right there, completely searchable. When I find sites like this, I can’t help but think how useful this would have been when I was in school, back in the dark ages. I imagine any student or teacher would love to bookmark this for future reference. As a parent, I know I’ll be hanging on to this site for the kids.