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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Sure, you can get great classical literature at Project Gutenberg to download as e-books or even to convert to computer-generated ‘audiobooks’ (although you might not like listening to Ode to a Grecian Urn as interpreted orally by a text-to-voice software program). You can also download real audiofiles (mp3’s, wav’s, etc) from Librivox recordings. {This volunteer-run […]
Categories: English majors, Literature, cheap books, college, e-readers, education, ereaders, foreign language learning, free books, free textbooks, free-no gimmicks, high school, humanities, language, technology, textbooks, web log
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
A ranking of 850,000 on Amazon probably means a book sells one or two copies a year. You could get a bit cynical and say you’re surprised it’s even that high. However, as traditional and e-book publishers churn out those clone-like English writing texts that will guarantee you’ll write prose ‘not fit for Christian ear […]
Categories: BOOK REVIEW, English majors, Literature, free books, humanities, language, textbooks, web log
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
You can get a virtual education on filmmaking of the eclectic sort by going to the nice blog called film studies are free, which is dedicated to the public domain. It might be a bit too academic for many, and probably irrelevant, perhaps harmful to creative filmmakers and writers, but this blog contains many fine […]
Categories: English majors, Literature, college, education, humanities, language, web log
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
While I still have time to operate this blog (it’s been going on about three years now), I want to update this list of ‘famous English majors.’ Preferably the persons you mention are alive, and actually ARE or WERE English majors. I’ve deleted some famous ones who have recently died. Please submit your entry, and […]
Categories: Literature, college, humanities, web log
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
If you’re a college student, and are paying a lot of money for textbooks, you may think there is some conspiracy going on. Well, there is, but the conspiracy was uncovered by the GAO–Government Accounting Office–and other entities as well, too many to name at the moment. However, this has not stopped college textbook publishers […]
Categories: English majors, Literature, Politics, college, education, humanities, language, textbooks, web log
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Some authors seem to be veritable book making machines. How do they do it? Not the way Shakespeare managed to write 36 plays (more or less). See what Carol Hoenig has to say on the subject.
http://whereistand.com/blog/carolhoenig/235
Categories: BOOK REVIEW, Literature, humanities, web log
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