Five Classics we should all read FOR FREE
Get your free copy of “Secret Garden,” “Anne of Green Gables,” “Pride & Prejudice,” “Frankenstein,” and “Wuthering Heights” from Project Gutenberg Today!
Paperback books feel soothing in one’s hand, but every newly printed book is the corpse of dead trees.
Luckily, thousands of the greatest works of literature are available FOR FREE!!!
- Little Women? Free!
- Pride and Prejudice? Emma? Sense and Sensibility? Free!
- Wuthering Heights? Free Free Free Free!
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? You guessed it — free!
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? Amazing sale price, 100% off!
What’s the hidden catch? Well, one needs to click to Project Gutenberg, which for some reason failed to spend billions of dollars per year to induce you to click over to their website.
But I want to feel dead trees in my hands!
Wonderful invention called a ‘printer’! Take a FREE book from Project Gutenberg — then you print it. On paper. Yourself. Presto!
(‘Printing” is such an awesome idea that somebody invented a way to do it…)
Punch holes in the pages (try to print with margins that work), plop ’em in a 3-ring binder and…well, admittedly, that just doesn’t feel like a book at all!
Well, OK, the ‘user experience’ isn’t so cool as the ‘book’ with its cover art and binding glue — but one has to remember that buying a book is not buying “literature,” it’s buying that cover art/glue. It’s also rewarding people who chop down tens of millions of trees per year.
But books are classy, sexy!
True, classic books are as sexy as tiger skin rugs, baby seal fur coats, or an ivory collection.
Your grandchildren will be impressed by how cool you are — just like your grandma was impressed by hoop skirts and Victorian underwear.
But I want to display my collection of dead tree trophies to show how sophisticated I am!
Libraries dispose of used books each year. Buy them, and instead of rewarding people to chop down trees, you can get a ‘ripped jeans’ look of sophistication buying books that come with CUSTOM dog-ears, torn pages, creased bindings, and other clear indicators of authenticity. You don’t even need to do it yourself!
