What would you think if someone told you that there’s a place where you can find over 20,000 free e-books?

And I’m not talking about just any books, or promotional or “how-to” books.

What if I told you it’s a collection of works with expired copyrights, works from authors like Dickens, Verne, Twain, Poe, Carroll, and many, many others?

There are so many others, I’m having difficulty deciding what names to use as examples of what you could find…

And it’s all one click away, right here:

http://www.gutenberg.org

The name couldn’t be more appropriate, what could be better than the name of the man that helped make books an instrument of knowledge accessible to the masses, for a website that could have the same potential for the online world?

If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, or if you would simply like to know more about this extraordinary man, here’s the link to Wikipedia (I’m a bit too lazy today to be writing it all):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg

the only minor defect of this incredible website is that you won’t get to feel the paper under your fingers while you read, but that’s a very small price if you think of the millions of words and thoughts that are there, just waiting to be read.

“It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams...Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.”

Johannes Gutenberg