Tell me, O wisdom of the Internets...

[hairyears]

I have a couple of ebooks on my iPhone, in differing proprietary formats: they are great for reading wherever there's no Internet, but I am drawn towards bite-sized essays and short stories as I only use the iPants for reading when I'm on the move.

I've now worked my way through all of Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe (there are reasons why the

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[gerald_duck]

The "Just So" stories, Æsop's fables and Grimms' fairy tales might all make brief and light but free and enjoyable reading? I'm assuming you can access Project Gutenberg from an iPhone?

[hairyears]

Project Gutenberg's no good to me: it's an online resource and I cannot read it on an iPhone when - not if! - the loathsome Safari Mobile browser insists on reloading the page when there's no network, and in doing so discards the document.

[gerald_duck]

I know the iPhone has a filesystem in it; can't you explicitly stick stuff there for later perusal?

If not, maybe someone should make a quick buck writing a suitable application. It would have to be a quick buck, though: I can't imagine Apple leaving the iPhone stymied in that way for long once someone else was making money out of fixing their brokenness.

[flavius_m]

You can download ebooks from Gutengerg to your computer, then upload them and use something like Good Reader to transfer them to iPhone. It can deal with text, pdf and other formats. I'm currently using it to read Joyce's 'Ulysses', which I was reading in Stanza but this was way too slow.

[d_floorlandmine]

there are reasons why the obscure stuff has remained obscure
[grin]

[knirirr]

Install Stanza and you can download anything from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere directly to your device and read it there. Arthur Machen might be of interest.

[purplecthulhu]

Ditto - Stanza has hooks into all sorts of things - I have some Cory Doctorow short stories, various SF novels and a whole bunch from Guttenberg thanks to it.

[hairyears]

Stanza looks like a clear winner here...

[damerell]