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Post by memeengine on Nov 3, 2012 15:23:39 GMT
A lot of contemporary (and, therefore, out of copyright) texts can be found using either Google Books or Archive.org. Both sites allow searches by subject matter and date. While, in some cases, the texts from the 18th & 19th centuries aren't always historically accurate (and are sometimes very culturally biased), they are a useful resource. It's possible to get an insight into the views and motivations of people at the time that modern texts don't always convey. |
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Post by Cybermortis on Nov 3, 2012 15:27:11 GMT
You can also get historical books, including Origin of Species, and Samuel Pepys diaries as a free download from the Gutenberg project; www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/You don't, btw, need an E-Reader to get or read these types of files, and they are usually small files that are quick to download. |
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Post by memeengine on Nov 3, 2012 17:38:38 GMT
One caveat with all of these sources is that the OCR'd versions of texts (as opposed to the straight scanned versions) can occasionally be confused by changes in page formatting. I've found that side bars and footnotes (especially in a different font) can trigger some confusion in the formatting process. The end results can vary from simply amusing to being completely unreadable. So you might find that the pdf versions are preferable but they are considerably larger.
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Post by ironhold on Nov 7, 2012 2:59:22 GMT
Don't forget that a lot of magazines, like Bloomberg Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com/) and The Economist (http://www.economist.com/) maintain free online archives of their articles, making them good resources for research and fact-checking.
You might have to wait a week or two past the date of physical publication for an article to be hosted online, but once they're online they generally hang around for a few years.
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