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Ladders, by Lynnie Rothan

Contents

Books

Books marked preliminary are likely to be of much-reduced quality, and are in the process of being revised.  To view the books, you may need to download the free Acrobat Reader software, if you don't already have it.    
"Victor Appleton" (Howard Garis, 1873-1962) -- Tom Swift Sr. series
  1. Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle (1910; 409K)
  2. Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat (1910; 456K)
  3. Tom Swift and His Airship (1910; 1.45M)
  4. Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat (1910; 445K)
  5. Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout (1910; 444K)
  6. Tom Swift and His Wireless Message (1911; 451K)
  7. Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers (1911; 432K)
  8. Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice (1911; 1.4M)
  9. Tom Swift and His Sky Racer (1911; 426K)
  10. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (1911; 448K)
  11. Tom Swift in the City of Gold (1912)
  12. Tom Swift And His Air Glider (1912)
  13. Tom Swift In Captivity (1912)
  14. Tom Swift And His Wizard Camera (1912)
  15. Tom Swift And His Great Searchlight (1912)
  16. Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon (1913)
  17. Tom Swift And His Photo Telephone (1914)
  18. Tom Swift And His Aerial Warship (1915)
  19. Tom Swift And His Big Tunnel (1916)
  20. Tom Swift In The Land Of The Wonders (1917)
  21. Tom Swift And His War Tank (1918)
  22. Tom Swift And His Air Scout (1919)
  23. Tom Swift And His Undersea Search (1920)
  24. Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters (1921)
  25. Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive (1922)
  26. ... volumes 26-40 are not yet in the public domain in the U.S.
See also:  "The Unofficial Tom Swift Home Page".
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) -- Wizard of Oz series
  1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900; 399K)
  2. The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
  3. Ozma of Oz (1907)
  4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
  5. The Road to Oz (1909)
  6. The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
  7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
  8. Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1914)
  9. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
  10. The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
  11. Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
  12. The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
  13. The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
  14. The Magic of Oz (1919)
  15. Glinda of Oz (1920)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Emily Brontë (1818-1848) John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) -- John Carter of Mars series
  1. A Princess of Mars (1917; 605K)
  2. The Gods of Mars (1918; 729K)
  3. The Warlord of Mars (1919; 528K)
  4. Thuvia, a Maid of Mars (1920; 604K), preliminary.
  5. The Chessmen of Mars (1922; 1.0M), preliminary.
  6. ... remaining volumes are not yet public-domain in the U.S.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) -- Tarzan series
  1. Tarzan of the Apes (1912; 1.0M), preliminary.
  2. The Return of Tarzan (1913)
  3. The Beasts of Tarzan (1914)
  4. The Son of Tarzan (1914)
  5. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916)
  6. Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919)
  7. Tarzan the Untamed (1920)
  8. Tarzan the Terrible (1921; 1.1M), preliminary.
  9. ... remaining volumes not yet public-domain in the U.S.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) "Lewis Carroll" (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898) Collections Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- Sherlock Holmes series
  1. A Study in Scarlet (1887; 457K)
  2. The Sign of the Four (1890; 428K)
  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892; 904K)
  4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893; 1.7M)
  5. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902; 719K), preliminary .
  6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905; 1.0M)
  7. The Valley of Fear (1914; 724K), preliminary .
  8. His Last Bow (1917; 633K)
  9. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1927) [Not yet public-domain in the U.S.]
See also:  221bakerstreet.org .
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
Bret Harte (Francis Brett Hart, 1836-1902)
Jerome Klapka Jerome  (1859-1927)
See also:  The Jerome K. Jerome website.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) -- Anne of Green Gables series
  1. Anne of Green Gables (1908; 907K)
  2. Anne of Avonlea (1909; 1.1M), preliminary .
  3. Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
  4. Anne of the Island (1915)
  5. Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
  6. Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
  7. ... further volumes are not yet public-domain in the U.S.
Charles Oliver
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Thomas à Kempis (Thomas Hemerken of Kempen, 1380-1471)
"Mark Twain" (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910)
Jules Verne (1828-1905)

H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

The Fine Print

GutenMark software was used to process the Project Gutenberg texts, but I hand-edited the texts afterward to make them as pretty as possible.  In some cases, illustrations or sections of text missing in Project Gutenberg editions have been restored.  A lot of errors have also been corrected.

If you prefer different page sizes, fonts, font sizes, margins, etc., gzipped LaTeX and LyX files for all texts may be found at my ftp site, and these may be used to reformat the texts at will.

How Can I Help?

If you feel the urge to help produce some of these texts, the things I'd presently find useful are these:
  1. Read the texts, and let me know about any problems you discover.  I want them to be perfect!  But you needn't bother to tell me about any problems you find in preliminary texts.  (I already know there are lots of problems in them!)
  2. Send me scans of illustrations for books that don't have any, or improved scans for texts that already have them.

Some Hints on LyX

If you choose to modify the texts I've presented, you might consider using LyX.  LyX (www.lyx.org ) is a terrific program for editing LaTeX.  Sadly, though, at this stage of its development it does have a few problems which you may need to be aware of if you choose to work with any of the LaTeX or LyX files on my ftp site.  As this is written, LyX versions 1.1.6, 1.2.0, and 1.2.1 seem to be the most common, and I have been using mostly 1.2.0 (but some 1.1.6).
  1. All versions of LyX will correctly import LaTex created by versions 20020811 (or later) of GutenMark .  However, LyX 1.2.x won't correctly import output from earlier versions of GutenMark .
  2. LyX (all versions) is not 100% perfect at importing LaTeX.  Specifically, all of the LaTeX files on my ftp site were exported from LyX, but won't be properly re-imported into Lyx.  (That's the reason I provide both the LaTeX and the LyX files, even though logically only one or the other is needed.)  The problems encountered are easily remedied, however:
  3. LyX 1.2.1 treats margins for even/odd printing differently than 1.2.0 and 1.1.6 do.  It may modify the margins which have been selected. This has various undesirable side-effects in cases where the text contained two-column sections (such as msali10.lyx).  The upshot is that if you create PDF from LyX 1.2.1, you mightn't get PDF files that look like the ones I've provided (usings LyX 1.2.0).
  4. Certain mathematical stuff, such as the degree symbol, superscripts (exponents), subscripts, greek letters, etc., sometimes won't render properly using LyX's default method of generating PDF--namely, the tool-chain latex/dvips/ps2pdf.  I don't know why.  Fortunately, this stuff doesn't appear in most books.  Moreover, if properly configured, LyX also offers an alternative method of generating PDF--namely, the tool pdflatex. With pdflatex, the mathematical symbols seem to render properly and certain spurious warning messages displayed by Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 when the default tool-chain is used are eliminated.  (A good test case for this is the text "moon10", Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon .)  On the other hand, pdflatex cannot deal with EPS-format graphics (such as are supplied with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .)  *Sigh!*  The bottom line, however, is that I'd almost always recommend using the 'pdflatex' option when generating PDF.

Some Hints on Printable Formats

The PDF files I've provided look really good on the computer screen -- say, using Acrobat Reader on a 1280x1024 display -- but aren't really suitable for direct printing unless you have a lot of 5.5"x8.5" paper sitting around.  You can, of course, use LaTeX to create different page sizes, use different fonts, and so on.

On the other hand, you may like the PDF files I've provided, and simply want to print them in an efficient way.  The most satisfactory approach in my view is to print the 5.5"x8.5" pages so that 4 of them fit on a single letter-size sheet of paper -- two on the front and two on the back.  There are several approaches to this.  One correspondent, Rick Holbert, has informed me of a way of doing this within LyX itself.  Details on this aproach will be presented shortly.  You might want to take a look at Rick's website, if you are interested in binding the books you print.

Another approach is to post-process the PDF, creating Postscript with the pages rearranged appropriately.  Here's a way to do that, using the so-called PSUTILS programs available on most Linux systems:

# As an example, use the file jjclk10.pdf.

# Convert PDF to Postscript
pdftops -paperw 396 -paperh 612 jjclk10.pdf

# Rearrange the pages into booklet form.
psbook -q jjclk10.ps temp1.ps

# Convert to 2-up
psnup -2 -pletter -W396 -H612 -q temp1.ps temp2.ps

# Sadly, there is currently a bug in PSUTILS so that
# the output file still thinks it's 5.5"x8.5".  So,
# manually edit temp2.ps with a text editor, changing
# the line that reads
#    %%DocumentMedia: plain 396 612 0 () ()
# to
#    %%DocumentMedia: plain 612 792 0 () ()

# Pull off the odd-numbered 2-up pages, in reverse order.
psselect -o -r temp2.ps frontsides.ps

# Pull off the even-numbered 2-up pages, in normal order.
psselect -e temp2.ps backsides.ps

# This step prints the fronts:
lpr frontsides.ps

... put the pages just printed back in the paper tray ...

# This step prints the backs:
lpr backsides.ps

These steps produce a stack of paper which, if sliced down the middle with a paper cutter, give you all of the pages in the correct order.  If you want to fold the paper instead of cutting it, you'll need to produce smaller sized "signatures" in the psbook-step above.  This, sadly, must be left as an exercise for the reader.


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