The English Server War and Peace , Dracula , Jane Eyre , and James Joyce's Ulysses are among the 20,000 works available for reading online at this site, if your eyes can take the strain. If they can't, just listen to the audio of scholarly presentations on Shakespeare and cultural matters. Last month, the publishers, book sellers and software companies behind this site proposed a standard format for electronic books. That means they expect more and more of us to start buying and reading by the soft light of a computer screen. This is the place to read up on their efforts.
Books are in plain text, easy to download, e-mail, or transfer from format to format.
Western European Literature Foreign-language literature is pouring online, too. This page consists mostly of links to collections growing throughout Europe. Parents send their children to camp to build self-esteem and social skills and to make friends. That's what a survey at one of the sites below showed. Getting the kids out of our hair wasn't mentioned.