You can criticise the Internet so easily. There is so much dross floating in its waters it is a wonder anyone can swim through to things they actually want. Many of its auspices are so inescapably transient. we can waste swathes of time playing pointless games, reading a series of irrelevant articles or being endless;y distracted by social media.
And yet.
Yet, it is a wonderfully democratic place where anyone can search out that which interests them. it offers entertainments and transient pleasures certainly. we can question the provenance of some of the things we see and read on the net too. Despite this however it is a wonderful gateway to worlds that before could have been beyond the reach of so many.
Sadly in these straitened times libraries are being closed. A narrow view if ever there was one, saving money but failing to underpin education or inspire imagination in the long-term. Not here in the e-space though. In the intellectual ether of the on line word there are many gems and joys.
None shine greater than the repositories of access to knowledge and entrainment that are represented by free on line access journals and e-books.
We will all have our tastes, but for me, one of the great things is free access to classics that people may never otherwise read.
Thus I leave you with this link from the Gutenberg project. Who knows where it Will lead you, but I hope it is on true literary odyssey.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3160/pg3160.html
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