Overview

This is a sampling of some of the books contained herein, vaguely in the order in which they were read. Click on any of the Covers/Authors:

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This is a repository notes from most of the books I've read over the last decade.
Overall, it’s a collection of facts, as well as my personal comments (generally marked like this).
Be warned, spoilers abound!
You can get started by searching by Authors & Biographical Subjects or by the Overview by Topic.
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2004.6.26: Assembled the pieces of this site.
2006.12.31: Re-working the whole site with Cascading Style Sheets to hopefully make it more readable.

Whenever possible, quotations are kept as in the original. I do not change material to suit my preferences, such as:

I do not like the common use of placing punctuation inside quotation marks, “like so,” which seems to be inventing punctuation, so I will use quotation marks, “like so”, to avoid this. This practice is often shared by people versed in computer programming.
I use two spaces between sentences when most books use one.
Capitalizing named centuries (e.g. Twentieth Century)
Title formats:

Original spellings in foreign and centuries-old material, often obsolete, are kept whenever possible (which wreaks havoc with spell-checking).
Block quotations will have an indentation to indicate the first sentence of a paragraph (unless no indentation was in the original), or will begin with a pseudo-ellipses (...) to indicate they are found within a paragraph. Occasionally, my additions are included in brackets ([]) to provide clarity.
Block quotations where the author quotes another person will not generally have quotation marks. However, quotations from a fictional character generally will have quotation marks.
Dates for when I read a work are given in YYYY.M.D format (such as 2000.2.15).
Names beginning with “Mc” are alphabetized as if written “Mac”.

Everything I know about HTML, I learned from HTMLGoodies.com.
Everything I know about CSS, I learned from W3Schools CSS Tutorial.
The majority of book covers were pulled from barnesandnoble.com (which has an excellent used & out-of-print section), with others from amazon.com, or milehighcomics.com.
Much time was saved from transcribing classic works by copying from Project Gutenberg. Unfortunately, their preference of “Plain Vanilla ASCII” was a pain because I had to manually delete the carriage returns from every line. Personally, I think it's a shame that they don't use HTML.
Much of the poetry was cribbed from Poet's Corner.

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