I made a note a few weeks back to check this site out and I’m just getting around to it.  Archive.org is a source of not only books, but music, audio and moving images.

My initial interest sprang from a search for some of H. L. Mencken’s books online. I found “Damn Calumny!” on their site – which I had read about while reading another of Mencken’s books, and bookmarked it. But I’ve got a bad habit of losing or not being able to find bookmarks, so I thought I’d post it here so that I could find it a little easier. What? me lazy? of course not! 

I heard about this months ago, but I am just now coming to realize what an incredible library is at our disposal!!! Google Books is just loaded with classic literature! You can add books to your library for easy and fast retrieval and read them online. You can also search for words or phrases within each book.

The first book I added to my library was Evan Esar’s “20,000 Quips & Quotes”. Being very much into quotations, Esar has always been a subject of my interest. I recently added Welty’s “The Optimist’s Daughter” which I’ve been planning to read and Mencken’s “The American Language”. Now all I need is time to read…..