I'm a big fan of the Gutenberg eText project. Their online royalty-free texts preserve a great literary heritage. Unfortunately, their standard 80-character wide ASCII format makes the files hard to ...

A few weeks back, I posted how to prepare Gutenberg text for PDAs using a simple text editor. Here's what our loyal readers had to say. There is a perl script that cleans up Gutenberg texts nicely. It ...

This post is in partnership with the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. A version of the article below was originally published on the Ransom Center’s Cultural Compass blog.