Print out and follow these instructions to find copies of over 6,000 books including both an audio recording and a plain text copy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

*  Click on the link below:

http://gutenberg.net/

*  Scroll down looking in the left column for the "Browse by Author or Title" link
*  Click on this Browse link
*  Click on the "Select the FTP site closer(*) to you" drop down menu and select the "United States: gutenpress.org" site [other links are also dependable, but I have found this one to be easiest and fastest.]

*  Click Select at bottom of browser window to move to that website.
*  Click on letters to find Shelley and Stoker or any other of the thousands of free books stored in the gutenberg archives.
*  Click on links to books under author's name
*  Choose either the zip file (if you know how to unzip texts) or the txt file for a straight download.
*  Click on several links if more than one is available for an individual work to find versions of the books in other formats (audio/visual/html)

This is a great website to explore if you like to read.

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