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We are making books available on CD and DVD, selected and organized in an easy-to-use, well-indexed format. These CDs and DVDs are designed for use on PCs and recent Macs (OS X), not CD music players or the DVD video players that hook up to a television. You can buy these CDs here using the PayPal secure payment system, by clicking on the PayPal shopping cart buttons on this page. Or you can buy online at our new store store.yahoo.com/samizdat, which uses Yahoo's secure ordering system. As incentive to get you to try our PayPal shopping cart, when you use it, there is no charge for shipping (even for air mail outside the US).

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Our mission is to use technology to benefit both readers and authors, making books extremely inexpensive, easy to use, and easy for anyone to publish. All our CDs and DVDs are hand-crafted. The selection and organization is based on our judgement, not automated programs. And the books are presented in the simplest, most easily accessible form (plain text, with no compression and no encryption).

We continuously update our CDs, adding new books as they become available. If you buy a CD from us, you can buy up to four updates of that CD (which has all the books, not just the new ones) for a discounted price.  The update price is $10 per CD and $30 per DVD.  So the update price of a 2-CD set (like American Literature) would be $20, and for a 3-CD set (like British Literature) would be $30. And the price for an update of our Complete Book 4-DVD set would be $120. You can see the list of all books recently added at our update page www.samizdat.com/update.html

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Books on DVD

Super DVD Offer -- All 14 of our book collection DVDs (The Complete Book 4-DVD set, All-American DVD, All-British DVD, the Period 3-DVD set, Genre, Theme 2-DVD set, Region/Country, and Author)-- 13 DVDs for just $349. Purchased separately, those DVDs would cost $888. So you save $539 with this package offer.

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The Complete Book DVD -- 23,416 books on 4 DVDs for just $149. This 4-DVD set includes all the plain-text books from our Classic Collection CDs, plus more. Click on the links below to view the full contents of those CDs:

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The Harvard Classics ® a Registered Trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Classics Illustrated ® is a Registered Trademark of the Frawley Corporation
Great Books of the Western World ®  and Britannica ®  are Trademarks of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

All-American DVD -- 4478  books: Literature and History, for just $89. It combines the contents of 21 book-collection CDs.  The main collections are the American Literature 2-CD set and US History.  The other collections consist of some of those same books organized in different ways, to create interesting and usefulcontexts (American Revolution, Civil War, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Papers of the Presidents, California, Southwest, West, Old New York, Old New England, Black Americans, Slave Narratives, Native Americans, and Brook Farm).

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All-British DVD -- 3589 books: Literature and History for just $89, combines the contents of 8 book-collections CDs: British Literature (3 CDs), Briitsh History and Historical Novels, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and King Arthur.

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Period Book DVD #1 -- 2698 books for just $69. This DVD includes all the plain-text books from our six Period Collection CDs. Sold separately, those CDs would cost $95. . Click on the links below to view the full contents of the CDs included:

Designed for ease of use without any need for computer knowledge, this is, by far, our best bargain.

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Period DVD #2 -- 19th Century Literature  -- This DVD contains 8,406 book and document files, combining the 19th century contents of 8 CDs (American Literature, British Literature, World Literature, Canadian Literature, and Australian Literature).  It sells for just $69.

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Period DVD #3 -- 19th Century Everything But Literature -- This DVD contains 4,719 book and document files, combining the 19th century contents of 6 CDs (US History, World History, Natural Science and Technology, Social Science, Philosophy, Religion, Victorian Advice, and Textbooks).  It sells for just $69.

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The Author Book DVD -- 4572 books: all the books from our 72 Author CDs.  Sold separately, those CDs would cost $864. It sells for just $69..

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The Genre Book DVD -- 4179 books, plus 733 plays, 1058 magazine issues, and 3901 short stories for just $69. This DVD combines the contents of 20 Genre CDs. Sold separately, those CDs would cost $390. Click on the links below to view the full contents of the CDs included: Buy the Genre Book DVD here using PayPal --


The Theme Book DVD Set --  10,325 books for just $89. This 2-DVD set combines the contents of 54 Theme CDs. Sold separately, those CDs would cost $1026.

American

Social Sciences

War

Oft-Told Tales

Physical Sciences and Technology

Religion

Travel and Exporation

Art, Hobbies, and Pets

Adventure

Disabilities

Fine Art and Motion Pictures


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The Region/Country Book DVD -- 5267 books plus 92 country studies and the 2008 CIA World Factbook for just $69. This DVD includes all the plain-text books from our 21 Region/Country CDs. Sold separately, those CDs would cost $469. Check the descriptions for those CDs for the complete contents.
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Books on CD

Complete Classic Collection

If you want lots of great books, organized for ease of use and in plain-text format, you should buy the Complete Classic Collection of  Book CDs. That includes: Books of the Western Canon: Great Books by Essential Authors, Books from the Great Books of the Western World ® Collection, Books from the Harvard Classics ® Collection,  Books Behind the Classics Illustrated ®  Comics, American Literature (2-CD set), British Literature (3-CD set), World Literature (2-CD set), Non-Fiction (4-CD set), Religion (2-CD set), Children's Book (2-CD set), and Books about Classical Music. 18 CDs, for $149.

If you bought those separately, the cost would be $381.

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The Harvard Classics ® a Registered Trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Classics Illustrated ® is a Registered Trademark of the Frawley Corporation

A Year of Reading

In a good year, I read about 100 books. Our Year of Reading CD contains 100 classic books that I'd recommend. Most of these are relatively short. Many are collections of short stories and poetry. I've avoided plays and reference books, aiming for books that should work well for people who listen to books (using text-to-voice conversion programs) rather than reading them on a computer screen. Table of Contents
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Woodhouse English-Greek Dictionary

At the request of scholars in the field, I am making the rare and very useful Woodhouse English-Greek Dictionary available on CD. The Greek characters mean that "plain-text" isn't an option for this book.  So I did the CD version as a series of images of the pages of the original book, with a linked index page that lists all the English words that are defined. This means that you can search or browse through the index page to find the word you want and then click to see an image of the original book page with that word with the ancient Greek equivalents. Please note that since the heart of the work is in the form of images, unfortunately, this CD version  will not be useful for the blind. Sample the look-and-feel of this book on CD

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We have twelve Classic Collection CD offerings

Books from the Great Books of the Western World ® Collection is based on the table of contents of the 54-volume first edition published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. in 1952. This CD contains electronic versions of about two thirds of the works in that printed book collection. The Table of Contents shows the organization by volume of the original collection.  The folders/directories are organized by author.Books originally written in languages other than English appear on the CD in English translation, but often not the same translation as the printed collection. Of the 54 volumes, this CD contains the complete or nearly complete contents of 29 volumes and partial contents of 14 volumes.  It omits the contents of 11 volumes. Omissions are noted in the Table of Contents in brackets and with the word "unavailable". All these books are in plain text form, except one by Euclid which is in Acrobat (.pdf) to show the illustrations. Table of Contents
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Great Books of the Western World ®   and Britannica ®  are Trademarks of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

Books from the Harvard Classics ® Collection   is based on the table of contents of the Harvard Classics ® set of books AKA Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf (a 51-volume collection of great works) first published in 1909 plus the Harvard Classics ® Shelf of Fiction (a separate 20-volume collection) first published in 1917.  Both those collections were edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot (1834-1926). This CD contains electronic versions of the great majority, but not all of the works selected by Dr. Eliot.  Books originally written in languages other than English appear here in English translation, but often not the same translations as the original.  The Table of Contents shows the organization by volume of the original Harvard Classics ® collection.  The folders/directories are organized by author. All these books are in plain text format. Table of Contents
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The Harvard Classics ® a Registered Trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Books Behind the Classics Illustrated ®  Comics. Back in the 1950s I was an avid reader and collector of Classics Illustrated ® comic books. I bought every one I could find in stores, got a monthly subscription, and ordered everything else from the publisher as back issues. And I revered the original books honored by inclusion -- those were the true "classics"; and went out of my way to buy them and read them. About ten years ago, when I realized that the paper was deteriorating and that the comics would all turn to dust before my grandchildren could enjoy them, I sold the collection through Ebay. Now it finally occurred to me that all but 26 of the original 168 classics are now in the public domain and available in electronic form. Here I have assembled all those onto a single CD. (® Registered Trademark of the Frawley Corporation.)  Table of Contents
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Classics Illustrated ® is a Registered Trademark of the Frawley Corporation

Books of the Western Canon: Great Books by Essential Authors is based on the lists of "great books and essential authors" in the appendixes of "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom. Here we provide the full-text of many of the books he recommends, from the Theocratic, Aristocratic, and Democratic Ages (from the dawn of civilization up through the end of World War I), organized the way he presents them: 797 books by 204 authors. Many of these books would be very hard to find and very costly in printed form. Complete table of Contents
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This Classical Music Book CD includes over 164 libretti of operas and operettas, and lyrics of hundreds of lieder/songs in their original languages, plus 127 books about classical music, biographies of composers, and composer correspondence all in English. Complete table of contents
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What do Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, and Zane have in common? Their works are all on the same American Literature 2-CD set, with 3727 books by over 1000 authors.. Complete table of contents
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 What do Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Joseph Conrad have in common? Their works are all on the same British Literature 3-CD set, with 4167 books. Complete table of contents
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What do Louisa Mae Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Eleanor Porter have in common? Their works are on the same Children's Book 2-CD set, with 2662 classic children's books. Complete table of contents
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