Project Gutenberg has thousands of free eBooks.  Many of these books are public domain books, but they have been converted into many electronic formats such as html and pdf.  There are also other books as well.  I searched Isaac Asimov and found a few things by him there.

I suggest those who own eBook readers or even computers to look at this site and download some books.  Try something new.  Reading is very important and very beneficial.  If more people read more, maybe the number of idiots w...

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Don't you hate when people say that?  I understand why people say that, but that kind of phrase somewhat annoys me (it depends how the person says it).  It is true that people got along well enough without them, but that doesn't mean they have to or should now.  That applies to any similar statement (they didn't have cars 100 years ago, etc).

When someone says something like that, you can say something like this as a rebuttal - "they didn't have hospitals either."  It works whenever I say it. ...
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There's a song with this title that I've heard performed by Johnny Griffin.  It sounds pretty good.  You can find it on youtube if you search the title with his name.  However, I was reading about American history during the colonial era, and it turns out Wade in the Water was an instructional song.  During that time, slaves sang songs that seemed innocent to the slave masters, but were actually songs that helped people who wanted to escape to freedom.  This song would basically tell t...
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