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Old 08-01-2007, 12:34 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by RainDog View Post
Hi RWood. When you say that "There are not graphics in this version, there is stand alone version that has many graphics in it.", where is this stand alone version found?

I do not yet have a reader but am enthused about getting one. The recent story on the mobileread.com homepage regarding the Harvard Classics has me wondering what advantage there is to something like that vs just getting a copy from project gutenberg as an html file and using that. Other than possibly different graphics, would this work just as well? (I do not have a particular reader in mind). Thanks.
The graphic version is found here.

You can always download texts from PG, they are a great resource. However, only about one-third (at the most) of the source material for the HC series came from PG. Many of the books included in the HC series are simply not available there. Some people, like Bob Russell, sent me electronic copies of some texts and a large part came from the Internet Archives that had images captured in a PDF file that were then OCRed and proofed.

In addition to graphics, there are multiple translations of the classic texts and the ones at PG are not always the same as the HC series. Remember that the HC series was put together around 1909 so PG has many years additional to draw from for revised or improved translations. Some of the selections in the HC series were edited from the larger work. There are only 2 sections of The Canterberry Tales and 1001 Nights was condensed from 4 large volumes to 1 medium volume.

For viewing on a computer, you can download the CONNECT software to view the LRF files or MobiPocket to view the PRC files. There are also Plucker versions floating around that were made from the MobiPocket versions.
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