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Old 02-08-2010, 10:07 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
Pretty much all of the books that people would actually want to read (Dickens, Austen, etc.) are already available for just about any ereader -- and for FREE. HarryT did an outstanding job providing illustrated editions of Dickens and Austens works. I also have PDF versions of the Gadshill edition of all of Dickens works, with all the original illustrations, that I downloaded from the archive.org site.

However, the "penny dreadfuls" that they mentioned in the article look interesting.
With all due respect to Harry, I think the British Library collection is slightly bigger than his - and the 19th century is about a lot more than Dickens and Austen or even their respected contemporary Etc.
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