Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Manybooks.net - Banned Books

Thank GOD for Manybooks.net and the Internet in general. At least our children have a fighting chance to read what some would ban. I did a few Google searches to find the reasons for banning. What an eye opener!

Here are a few to scratch your head over.


The ''Genius''
Theodore Dreiser
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer's Comrade
Mark Twain
The Age of Reason
Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796)
Thomas Paine

The Arabian Nights Entertainments
from the text of Dr. Jonathan Scott
Anonymous
The Arabian Nights
Andrew Lang

Black Beauty
The Autobiography of a Horse
Anna Sewell
Candide
(English translation)
Voltaire

Candide
(English Translation with Introduction)
Voltaire
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Decameron, vol. 1
Giovanni Boccaccio
Eve's Diary
[without illustrations]
Mark Twain






Manybooks.net note: You can download these books from your Kindle, directly from the web site. It is certainly worth clicking these book links and experimenting with your 5-way toggle. It may be a little clunky, but actually works fine. You will make good use of that free Amazon whispernet connection. The .mobi file format is my personal favorite for books from Manybooks.net on my Kindle, but you can also use .prc, .txt, and .azw files with no trouble. Experiment with them all and decide for yourself which formats you like the best. Manybooks.net books are always FREE!

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