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modified:   ReadEtextsActivity.py
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modified:   readtoolbar.py
Added help text, plus the ability to check for an ISO encoded
version of a file before getting the plain text version.

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+"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
+
+The Books tab above will let you search through the offline catalog of Project Gutenberg, an Internet repository of
+free etexts featuring books in many languages.  For technical reasons some of the books available through the
+Project Gutenberg website are not in the catalog used by this Activity, but most of the books are here.
+
+The catalog used contains 20,443 titles, all out of copyright in the United States.
+
+To find a book, type one or more words that would be in the author's name or the title, then press Enter.  The list will only
+include books that match all the words, so use fewer words to make the list longer and more words to shorten the list. 
+If an author goes by his intials (like H.G. Wells, P.G. Wodehouse, or E.E. Smith) you may need to try both the initials and the
+complete first name to get every title available.  If you use a well known author's name like "Shakespeare" you will
+get titles both by and about him.
+
+To download the book select it in the list and press the download button next to the search box.  You may download
+several books to the Journal in the same session by using the "Keep" button on the Activity tab after each one except
+the final one, which will be saved to the Journal when you exit this Activity.
+
+Press the Escape key to hide the search results table and start reading.