# Got any good reading online? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746 "2008-05-18T13:36:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/1 "2008-05-18T13:36:48Z")
sites, articles, anything worth a quiet read… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/2 "2008-05-18T13:56:18Z")
This has a lot of Movie scripts. I really like it when I need to burn up some time. [http://www.dailyscript.com/movie.html](http://www.dailyscript.com/movie.html) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/3 "2008-05-18T14:21:51Z")
[The Economist](http://www.economist.com): lots of good information on current events. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/4 "2008-05-18T17:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=unspun] sites, articles, anything worth a quiet read… [/QUOTE] This question inspired me to look up a site I read from YEARS ago. It’s a little better looking now… [http://www.ipl.org/](http://www.ipl.org/) (Internet Public Library) Back in the day, if memory serves, it simply hosted raw texts of books… now it seems to have shifted roles from ‘host’ to ‘portal’ Still good though ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/5 "2008-05-18T22:47:52Z")
In a recent discussion here, I followed a link to the ERBZine site that had some of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books online in public domain. I opened one as a web page on my PDA, and the whole text of A Princess of Mars was on my PDA as offline content! This allowed me to read it at my leisure, whenever I had a spare moment. I am now reading the second book Gods of Mars, again in the spare moments. Mr. Burroughs’s novels were what I read as a fourth grader instead of comic books. This is a great opportunity to revisit some of the great books of my youth. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/6 "2008-05-19T02:06:28Z")
[Arts & Letters Daily](http://www.aldaily.com/) is good. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/7 "2008-05-19T02:12:42Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/8 "2008-05-19T02:20:54Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] [Arts & Letters Daily](http://www.aldaily.com/) is good. [/QUOTE] Very nice, I was getting bored on the night shift here, not anymore! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/9 "2008-05-19T03:58:16Z")
I recently reviewed **21** and told people who didn’t want the fluffy Hollywood version, just the story, to read [The Wired article](http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vegas.html) from their archives. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/10 "2008-05-19T18:14:42Z")
[Project Gutenberg](http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) is chock-full of online books, provided they were published earlier than 1920 or so. I love to find kind of obscure old stuff that I can’t find anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/11 "2008-05-19T18:37:41Z")
[Baen free library](http://www.baen.com/library/) has a bunch of free books. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/12 "2008-05-20T09:10:10Z")
[Collected works of HP Lovecraft](http://dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html) [Works of Edgar Allan Poe](http://web.archive.org/web/20050204120557/dagonbytes.com/poe/writings/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-any-good-reading-online/449746/13 "2008-05-20T14:48:48Z")
Has our guest (welcome, BTW) has read [all the columns](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/) already?