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 ...

Forward-looking: Audiobooks have gained popularity in recent years due to their accessibility, but recording them can be difficult and expensive. Researchers recently demonstrated an automated method ...

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.