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authorJames Simmons <jim@olpc.simmons>2009-05-31 12:58:35 (GMT)
committer James Simmons <jim@olpc.simmons>2009-05-31 12:58:35 (GMT)
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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
+"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. The catalog used contains 28,595 titles from Project
-Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Australia. The catalog is current as of January 29, 2009. For titles added
-after that date you should visit http://www.gutenberg.org.
+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. The catalog used contains 28,595 titles
+from Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Australia. The catalog
+is current as of January 29, 2009. For titles added after that date you
+should visit http://www.gutenberg.org.
-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 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.
+To download the book select it in the list and press the download button
+next to the search box.
-Press the Escape key or click the 'X' button to hide the search results table and start reading.
+Press the Escape key or click the 'X' button to hide the search results table
+and start reading.