Libraries, Librarians, and Book Lovers
Books on CD-ROM
Compiled and Indexed by Richard Seltzer B&R Samizdat Express - May 7, 2005
ISBN: 0-917466-47-0
Genre: Literature, History
Reviewed by Rochelle Caviness - June 13, 2005
Book lovers are, by their very nature, an eccentric group of people. They range from book hoarders to collectors of first editions and to those whose entire attention is focused on one genre or author. No matter what type of book lover, a book lover is, one thing is certain, they cherish their books with an undeniable passion. In Richard Seltzer's new collection, Libraries, Librarians, and Book Lovers he has gathered together seventy-four books that honor book lovers, the librarians who so deftly manage large book collections, and the libraries who hold within their walls untold treasures.
The seventy-four books in this collection are housed on a single CD-ROM disc, which is designed for use with Window's PCs. For the most part, the books in this collection presented in plain text format, making them accessible to visually impaired readers using screen readers and screen magnification programs. However, a handful of non-book items in this collection are presented in HTML format, such as Seltzer's list of his favorite contemporary novels.
The books in this collection are as diverse as are the people that love books. You'll find a book that explains the Dewey Decimal Classification system, to the text of Andrew Lang's lecture How to Fail in Literature. Other works that you'll encounter in this collection include:
History of American Literature, by Reuben Halleck
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, edited by Charles W. Eliot
Workshop on Electronic Texts Proceedings, edited by James Daly
A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana
From Chaucer to Tennyson, by Henry Beers
Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
Literary Friends and Acquaintances, by William Dean Howells
Libraries, Librarians, and Book Lovers collection will provide you with hours of reading pleasure. The works in this collection range from literary criticism and essays to biographical works and history texts. These works will prove invaluable to high school and college students who will find that many of these works are required reading, or that they compliment required text. More important, these texts provide the inquisitive reader with easy and inexpensive access to a wealth of titles that they may not easily find elsewhere.
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Essays, compiled by Richard Seltzer.
147 Classic Books of Essays on one CD, by authors such as Erasmus, Alexander Pope, John Stuart Mill, John Bunyan, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Sir Francis Bacon, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Plutarch.
When Dickens Was News - Classic Magazines, compiled by Richard Seltzer.
A collection of hundreds of issues of various Victorian era magazines, including The Strand, The Atlantic Monthly, Punch, and the Mirror of Literature, all on one CD, in plain text format.
