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From: Jay Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.me>
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Subject: Re: Kindle boxed set
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:52:26 -0500
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On 4/14/2025 11:26 PM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> On 4/14/25 11:51 AM, Jay Morris wrote:
>> Amazon has "Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, 
>> Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales: The War of the Worlds, Anthem, 
>> Space Viking, The Conquest of America…" for $0.99. 28,442 pages. Comes 
>> as one book.
>>
>> https://a.co/d/8X3aldW
>>
>> e-artnow presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and 
>> formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for 
>> readability on all devices. E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard 
>> Jefferies: After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. 
>> Cox: The Guardians Philip F. Nowlan: Armageddon–2419 A.D… George 
>> Griffith: The Angel of the Revolution… Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac 
>> David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Edward E. Hale: The Brick Moon 
>> Stanley G. Weinbaum: A Martian Odyssey… Abraham Merritt The Moon Pool… 
>> Edgar Wallace: The Green Rust… H. Beam Piper: Terro-Human Future 
>> History… Garrett P. Serviss: The Sky Pirate… Philip K. Dick: Second 
>> Variety… Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth H. G. Wells: 
>> The Time Machine Edgar Allan Poe: A Descent into the Maelstrom… Mary 
>> Shelley: Frankenstein… Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron 
>> Heel… R. L. Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald: Lilith 
>> H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines She William H. Hodgson: The 
>> Night Land… Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward… Mark Twain: A 
>> Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost 
>> World… Edgar Rice Burroughs Pellucidar Series Caspak Series Francis 
>> Bacon: New Atlantis C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne: The Lost Continent Margaret 
>> Cavendish: The Blazing World Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels 
>> William Morris: News from Nowhere Samuel Butler: Erewhon Edward 
>> Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race James F. Cooper: The Monikins Charlotte 
>> P. Gilman: Herland Ayn Rand: Anthem Owen Gregory: Meccania the Su...
> 
> Can you say "public domain"?
> 
> I suppose at only 99 cents it might be worth saving the effort of 
> downloading what you wanted from Project Gutenberg for free, but the 
> effort of trying to read something from it as a single book makes it 
> seem hardly worth it.
> 

I knew that but if one was interested it saved searching out and 
downloading each book. The TOC appears to be organized such that it 
makes it easy to single out books you want to skip.