OT - Incredible Literary Link

[QuikSand]

Harvard Classics - The Shelf of Fiction (http://www.bartleby.com/hc/)

This was linked as the "Site of the Day" from refdesk.com today, and it's really worth a look, and perhaps a bookmark. It's a fully linked, content-provided, booshelf of a monumental anthology of literature, from Chaucer, Homer and Dante up to Balzac, Poe, and Tolstoy. Quite a collection.

I have strolled through the Bartleby (http://www.bartleby.com) site before, but the synthesis of so many great works in one link set really seems to make this very useful. There are also many works here that aren't truly literature, but are written works advancing knowledge in other areas - Darwin, Harvey, Macchiavelli, Confucius, all jumped out at me in this regard.

Wow.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Cool link. Thanks!

[oykib]

That's a good link.

Wouldn't it be interesting to see how many times that link was clicked and compare it to the JPEGs uploaded into the Hot Chick Survivor threads and suchlike?

[SplitPersonality1]

Thanks for the headsup Quik.

[QuikSand]

Originally posted by oykib
Wouldn't it be interesting to see how many times that link was clicked and compare it to the JPEGs uploaded into the Hot Chick Survivor threads and suchlike?

Well, not if you're looking for a surprise. I guess the only unknown is if the latter beats the former tenfold or a hundredfold, or even more.

As we know, people vote with their feet. Or...whatever else is available when they look at porn.

[Fritz]

Very dissapointing. Not one issue of Penthouse Letters on that site.

[tucker342]

interesting link!

[tucker342]

thanks:D

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Beautiful Now No more going to the book store and dog earing
'' The Last of The Mohicans .''

[Easy Mac]

Is it sad I own about 75% of those books?

[cthomer5000]

keep on rockin' in the free world.

[QuikSand]

What, has this thread somehow become the designated platform for the latest wigfecta crowd?

[ice4277]

Quik,

Websites like the one you posted are what I always picture when I think of the Internet's possibilities being used to the fullest. Though I doubt I would ever really use this site much myself, it makes me think about the possiblities of, one day, going to one comprehensive "website library" where you could find any published work by any author, ever.

[wbonnell]

I thought about picking this collection up along with "The Greatest Books of the Western World". There is some overlap, but I liked the science, philosophy, and math in the latter work.

So, what kind of classic book club interest do we have? :)

[mrbuttercupjr]

WHAT THE HELL?!?!?! ARE YOU TELLING ME PEOPLE READ WHEN THERE NOT FORCED TOO?!?!?!?! CRAZY!!!!!

[cuervo72]

Wow, thanks Quik. I was looking for someplace where I could read The First Part of King Henry the Sixth online during lunch...I wasn't aware of Bartleby (let's just say it's been quite a while since I've read regularly :) ). I hope the Oxford Shakespeare and Pelican Shakespeare aren't all that different ;)

Who says you can't appreciate classic literature AND hot chicks? :D

[QuikSand]

Originally posted by ice4277
Websites like the one you posted are what I always picture when I think of the Internet's possibilities being used to the fullest.

Not too long ago (a year or two), M.I.T. made an announcement that its course materials for all its classes were going to (in time) be vaailable to the general public on line. I'm not sure how this really end up working, but conceivably it's an extension of the same thing... a very valuable use of this technology for exchange of ideas.

[wbonnell]

Originally posted by ice4277
Quik,

Websites like the one you posted are what I always picture when I think of the Internet's possibilities being used to the fullest. Though I doubt I would ever really use this site much myself, it makes me think about the possiblities of, one day, going to one comprehensive "website library" where you could find any published work by any author, ever.

Fullest?

Check out wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/

This is the most important site on the Internet.

[wbonnell]

Originally posted by QuikSand
Not too long ago (a year or two), M.I.T. made an announcement that its course materials for all its classes were going to (in time) be vaailable to the general public on line. I'm not sure how this really end up working, but conceivably it's an extension of the same thing... a very valuable use of this technology for exchange of ideas.

steadily growing

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

[RonnieDobbs]

I don't know; the whole OCW thing seems really cool, but all (or most) of that stuff was on the internet beforehand. You'll also still have to shell out the money for the textbooks, and you're not really being taught that much, rather given problem sets written by MIT grad. students to check your comprehension. When it was first mentioned I was thinking it was the beginning of the online university, but really its just a window-dressed streamlined collection of a bunch of individual classes' websites.

[wbonnell]

Speaking of public domain books:

http://promo.net/pg/