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Originally Posted by HarryT
I should add that you'll get a lot more help if you're willing to work on this yourself, of course. People are naturally more willing to help out someone who wades in themselves than someone who expects others to do all the work for them.
What proportion of books on your reading list are in the public domain?
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I was working my way thru a Home-Ec book transcription when I had to drop that and start re-assembling my HS materials. ( My youngest has decided that he's tired of Pub Sch and wants to return to homeschool.)
Not knowing Word or HTML has been a handicap, but I'll eventually get it understood. I'd never encountered CSS before wanting to format txt & rtf files into homemade epubs. Then I remembered MR's library
and decided to give it a look.
ALL of the reading lists are PD. Most can be found on Gutenberg. Those few that are not, are available over at Baldwin Project. I've found most, if not all, in PDF, at GB and IA as well.
I have copies of 80-100% of the books, in PDF which is "inconvenient" to say the least when using Readers or small-screen netbooks. PDF's work 'alright' when at a computer station, but hard to read otherwise.
The curriculum we use is
http://www.oldfashionededucation.com/
it's free, and mostly Public Domain.
I've added the Booklists from Accelerated Achievement & Robinson Curriculum to round it out. All three have benefits and drawbacks. None of them are complete in themselves, and each compliments the other.
I'm sorting thru what I have, and the source of each to determine EXACTLY what I DO need, and what will work as it is.
Kathy