Canada: Literature and History

Copyright © 2002 Richard Seltzer

This Web page shows the table of contents of our Canadian CD, with 360 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.

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

Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this Canadian Literature and History CD, with the full text of 360 books about Canada and/or by Canadians, in plain text, and the CIA World Factbook, is available for $19 at our online store.

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document. You can contact us at seltzer@samizdat.com, B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132-002. 617-469-2269.

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

If you would like to have your PC (with speakers) read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD.

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 Canadian CD

This Canadian Literature and History CD, with the full text of 360 books about Canada and/or by Canadians, in plain text, and the CIA World Factbook, 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.

    • History and Other Non-Fiction

    Literature

    Anonymous

    G. Mercer Adam and A. Ethelwyn Wetherall

    Maude Alma

    Sophie Alnon

    R.M. Ballantyne

    Arthur Beverley Baxter

    H. Beaugrand

    J. Cawdor Bell

    E.F. Benson

    Hector Bernier

    Harold Bindloss

    Augustus Bridle

    J.-B. Caouette

    Bliss Carman

    H.s. Caswell

    Mary Hartwell Catherwood

    Ralph Centennius (pseudonym, real name unknown, published 1883)

    Joseph Horatio Chant

    H.A. Cody

    Mrs. Harry Coghill (1836-1907)

    Ralph Connor (1860-1937)

    Ridgewell Cullum

    Charles DeGuise

    Mazo de la Roche

    James de Mille

    Harris Dickson

    William Drummond

    Scian Dubh

    Norman Duncan

    Sarah Jeanette Duncan

    Stanford Eveleth

    Samuel Fea

    George Manville Fenn

    A. Filiatreault

    May Agnes Fleming

    Hulbert Footner

    Caroline Augusta Frazer

    Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

    Frederick Philip Grove

    Thomas Chandler Haliburton

    Arthur Heming

    Helen Johnson

    Sergeant Ralph Kendall

    W.H.G. Kingston

    William Kirby

    Robert Knowles

    A.C. Laut

    Stephen Leacock

    Lydia Leavitt

    L. Pamphile Lenay

    Madame Leprohon

    Marc L'Escarbot

    W.D. Lighthall

    Bessie Marchant

    Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927)

    Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

    Charles Mair

    Captain Marryat

    Nellie McClung

    John McCrae

    Norah McDougal

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

    Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)

    Hopkins Moorhouse

    Kirk Munroe

    Ernest Myrard

    Maud Ogilvy

    George Orton

    J. MacDonald Oxley

    Frank Packard

    Gilbert Parker (1862-1932)

    William MacLoed Raine

    St. George Rathbone

    Major John Richardson (1796-1852)

    Sara Richardson

    Charles Sangster

    Argyll Saxby

    Wilfred Skeats

    Alice Prescott Smith

    F. Clifford Smith

    Andrew Learmont Spedon

    Robert J.C. Stead

    Charles Stewart

    Arthur Stringe

    Allan Sullivan

    Edward William Thomson

    Catherine Parr Traill (1802-1899)

    "Vera"

    Dillon Wallace

    William Henry Withrow

    Egerton Ryerson Young

    T.F. Young



    This Canadian Literature and History CD, with the full text of 360 books about Canada and/or by Canadians, in plain text, and the CIA World Factbook, 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).

    Note regarding copyright:  On our "Classic Collections" CDs, we include works published in the US before 1923, works from Australia and Canada when the author died 50 years or more ago, and works from the European Union (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) when the author died 70 years or more ago. NB -- Due to The European Union's extension of copyright by 20 years to 70 years after the death of the author many works which had been in the public domain under the previous law are now once again under copyright. Hence we are unable to include on our CDs some popular writers whose works are still readily available over the Internet.

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