The days are counting down. You have until Friday, August 4th to download all the eBooks your hard drive can handle. After that the month long World eBook Fair will come to a close and you’ll have to pay the annual membership fee of $8.95 for access to a library of over 300,000 books.

The fair is co-sponsored by Project Gutenberg, a non-profit that has been working for 35 years to increase the creation and distribution of eBooks. Just remember, the organization is run by volunteers and many of the eBook submissions are made by volunteers, so the database is not the most consistent or accurate. Your best bet is to stick to the classics (or search at random for independently published eBook gems).

Two books in the collection:


On the other hand, to hear a few words against the eBook revolution, scour the newsstands for remaining copies of O, The Oprah Magazine's July “Reading” issue and read Harper Lee’s rare and brief letter on her love of reading (Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, stopped giving interviews in the early ’60’s and rarely ever, ever publishes anything in print.).