[zeugma]

This is one of the history books that I found at a used book store some years back. The entire set is 9 volumes. It is titled "Library of American History". The Original copyright was 1895, with reprints up to 1918. It is a quality binding IMO.

The whole set:

Here's the front cover:

I'd recommend the set to anyone's library. I think I'm going to contact Project Gutenberg to see if they'd be interested in scanning and publishing the set. It would definitely be something worth saving digitally.

[ProgressingAmerica]

That’s a very handsome set. Is that Edward S. Ellis’ work?

As for the Gutenberg initiative, I would say that is a good start. I’ve done transcriptions myself. But I think you might want to consider the power of the spoken word for truly changing the rules.

rlmorel’s audio work has been downloaded now over 30,000 times. Many of mine have the same.

Ours is a world of convenience. Just scanning in the pages and having a ready transcript is only a moderate increase of convenience compared to the original work. I can easily buy a copy, both Walmart and Amazon seem to have it. But finding the time to read, that’s rare. Who has time. Nobody has time.

But an audiobook?

That is a game changer. An audiobook is turbo convenience.