gutenberg

The data is taken from the Project Gutenberg 2010 DVD and includes 20,000+ out-of-copyright texts (typically before 1930 or so).

And Gutenberg would give it away for free, so if you can make a few cents, why not?

That's like someone getting the shits with Gutenberg because a newspaper printed something.

I had a quick skim of the Project Gutenberg link another poster gave.

Well, the Gutenberg Method of teaching suggests that instead of just reading handouts in the lecture you read them beforehand and do the problem solving in the lecture time, when you have the experts available to help when you find out you actually don't understand.

In other news: Mininova now only serving 10 linux iso files and the contents of Project Gutenberg.

Register and read for free--Gutenberg doesn't require registration, and as far as I know doesn't track one.

I didn't bother with many lectures in undergrad, and most of my learning happened in classes/supervisions, which I guess are equivalent to what that guy calls the "Gutenberg method".

Well, writing and reading existed long before Gutenberg...but before he made mass media possible, it would have been very reasonable to argue that writing and reading were not essential to being productive members of society.

I didn't bother with many lectures in undergrad, and most of my learning happened in classes/supervisions, which I guess are equivalent to what that guy calls the "Gutenberg method".

In other news: Mininova now only serving 10 linux iso files and the contents of Project Gutenberg.

Register and read for free--Gutenberg doesn't require registration, and as far as I know doesn't track one.

Well, writing and reading existed long before Gutenberg...but before he made mass media possible, it would have been very reasonable to argue that writing and reading were not essential to being productive members of society.