I periodically search usenet newgroups to see how and where Project Gutenberg is mentioned. Here's an excerpt from a recent posting to misc.writing which shows the kind of reaction I hope many people are having when they download a PG text. Andrew Note: LW=Little Women So I didn't actually read LW until I was an adult, and forced to read it out of professional obligation. I'm still not that horribly KEEN on it, but it introduced me to other works by Alcott, and she was one heckuva lady. The voice she uses in her "adult" books is totally different from her kid lit. As part of my recent research I just finished "Hospital Sketches"--based on her brief career as a Civil War nurse--and it's so like a precursor to M*A*S*H, sort of this horrifying tragicomic mix of bureaucracy and death. It's a short read, available at Project Gutenberg if folks are so inclined. (Warning, though: I opened up the text file just to make sure it didn't get corrupted and wound up dropping everything to read the whole thing.)