Thursday, January 10, 2008

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

I'm currently reading an electronic version of an unabridged copy of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, found for free at WOWIO.

It's amazing... both the story and the site I mean. The story is wonderful so far, and the site has served me really well in terms of providing high quality ready-to-send-to-publisher text. I stumbled on WOWIO by accident—I was foraging through my usual list of webcomics when I came across a link to this rather interesting comic called Lullaby. The artwork is credible, and the characters have so much potential; I simply love mash-ups between characters from different stories—the potentials are almost endless as the various abilities and idiosyncracies of the characters can multiply among themselves and present even more interesting scenarios. I highly recommend book-lovers to utilise WOWIO to search for some of the good quality stuff.

If quality typeset isn't your thing, there's still the venerable Project Gutenberg. This site contains many classic works which were released of their copyright, and were painstakingly converted into machine-readable form (aka plain text). If raw text is what you need, then this site will be the better of the two options.

If you're like me, and prefer nicely typeset works, then WOWIO is the way to go.

Alright, I need to actually catch up on some sleep... there's so many things that I need to do over the next three days. Am actually wondering what to do about obtaining cheap coffee... the best solution that I have so far is to make the coffee in my room, store it in a thermos flask, and then use that flask of coffee to last the whole day. So, yeah, that'll probably how I will be doing for this semester, considering that my schedule is rather unbalanced.

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