User:Juliegolden

A big fan of public domain primary texts & thrilled that so many are now freely available on the web thru Gutenberg (iBooks are excellent for organizing notes, quotes, contents) and Google books (far less organizable at this time-- though it can be fun to see the actual binding and library info) and various university libraries that have, thankfully, put some of their holdings online. Would that the Library of Congress might begin to do such a thing!

It seems to me that most primary American documents, written in English, going back to the Pilgrims, are self-evident in their meaning. And I like that most citations of wikipedia articles concerning historical events old enough to be public domain are becoming verifiable on-line, i.e. through direct links to documents. This seems more immediate and satifying than having to take someone's word until you can run to the library and look everything up. One issue though, is that page numbers can change with mutable eBooks. Maybe, in that case, it is best to link to a document with set page numbers or sections? I'd imagine that soon enough page numbers will be less authoritative and replaced by numbered paragraphs or something fixed to the text.