Free Ebooks

Thanks for compiling such an easy to remember, easy to use list of these resources! I had *heard* and *read* about these sites, but never visited/practiced with them. So I'm glad for the chance. I visited Project Gutenberg first and successfully downloaded A Tale of Two Cities. I then went to Many Books, and I concur, this was my favorite. The layout was great, browsing or searching was easy. I went to subjects and found cookery. Funnily enough, I hadn't really ever thought before about cookbooks as ebooks. But what a fantastic idea. So I downloaded The Allison Vegetarian Cookbook, published in 1915. (I didn't know there WERE vegetarians in 1915.) I was very highly amused. The first introduction paragraph:

"This book is written with the object of laying before the public a cookery book which will be useful not only to vegetarians, but also to flesh eaters, who are often at a loss for recipes for non-flesh dishes. Nowadays, most people admit that "too much meat is eaten"; but when the housewife tries to put before her family or friends a meal in which meat is to be conspicuous by its absence, she is often at a loss how to set about it."

"Non-flesh dishes" I also like the insinuation that only "housewives" cook. I dig it. Maybe I will make some of his non-flesh suggestions. I was going to mock some of the recipe titles here, but they actually look really good!

Anyway. I knew Google Books had the ones you could read directly in your browser, but I hadn't ever downloaded them as epub, and it was good to know about that as a possibility. I successfully downloaded The Secret Garden.

A great task! Now if only I can successfully make a cheese souffle...