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Australia: Literature and History on CD

Copyright © 2002 Richard Seltzer

This Web page shows the table of contents of our Australian CD, with 136 books. Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD.

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document.

This CD was compiled by Richard Seltzer. The books themselves are in the public domain. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com

Click on a category to go to one of the major sections of this index page:


Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this Australian Literature and History CD, with the full text of 136 books about Australia and/or by Australians, in plain text, is available for $19 at our online store.

User's Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD ROM

These books are in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.  You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

We publish plain text books (unencrypted) on CD, and we want to provide a simple way for customers and other interested people to share their insights into how to get the most out of this new way of reading and studying. To do so we have set up an email discussion group at Yahoo. All are welcome to join and to post here, but I'll manage this group in "moderated" style, filtering messages before they go out to the whole group, to control the volume of the messages and to make sure that they are on-topic. Tips and information that would be helpful to people you have plain text books on CD are welcome -- including examples of how you are using yours, suggestions for improvement,  suggestions for future CDs, and useful/interesting texts found on the Web that should be included in future CDs. To subscribe, go to the discussion group Web site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaintextbooksoncd  or send a blank email to plaintextbooksoncd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Click on a category to go to one of the major sections of this index page:

Table of Contents of the Australia CD

This Australian Literature and History CD, with the full text of 136 books about Australia and/or by Australians, in plain text, is available for $19 at our online store.

Context of the contemporary world

  • The 2008 CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

    • Australian Literature

    An Anthology of Australian Verse Edited by Bertram Stevens

    Old Bush Songs edited by A.B. Paterson

    Louis Becke

    Guy Boothby

    Mary Grant Bruce

    Edward Dyson

    E.L. Haverfield

    G.A. Henty

    Edith Howes

    John Conroy Hutcheson

    Adam Lindsay Gordon poems, including:

    Henry Kendall

    W.H.G. Kingston

    Henry Lawson

    Katharine Mansfield

    John Miller

    Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson

    Henry Richardson

    Steel Rudd (pseudonum for Arthur Hoey Davis)

    Lilian Turner

    J.M. Walsh

    Australian History

    New Zealand


    This Australian Literature and History CD, with the full text of 136 books about Australia and/or by Australians, in plain text is available for $19 at our online store.

    How to install and use the free ReadPlease software included on this CD

    Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

    When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows).

    When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

    Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702


    Tips for using/enjoying the texts on this CD:

    The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. (That should bring you to here, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)

    From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.  Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.

    When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words) so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find the spot where you left off.

    If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.

    If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad or Word.

    If you want to take notes while you read, first save the file on your hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes, when you are done.

    If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).
     


    This CD now contains 73 books.  At a price of $19, that amounts to about 70 cents per book. We will continue to add new books to this CD as they become available. To see the current contents on the Web, see www.samizdat.com/australiacd.html. For a list of recent updates (what we added and when), see www.samizdat.com/cdupdate.html  If you buy a CD at the retail price of $19, you have the right to buy an upgraded version of the same CD for just $10, a maximum of four times per year. The "upgraded" version will contain all the texts, not just the new ones.

    For details on our other offerings, see www.samizdat.com/readme.html

    You can buy our CDs at our online store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat

    You can contact us at seltzer@samizdat.com, B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. 617-469-2269.

    For details about this publishing service, check the readme document.

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