Oh Mylanta

Call me a loser, but I spent most of my snow day reading stories by H.P. Lovecraft. One of the essential horror writers in early 20th century American Literature (think Edgar Allen Poe but with it's own mythology) Pretty incredible stuff, I might say. But anyway, I was looking up the stories on wikipedia, you know, to gain extra insight and analysis and I happened to stumble upon wikisource. Are you sitting down?

Wikisource is a compilation of literature across the annals of time. Want to read Dracula but are snowed in and can't get to the library? BAM. It's there. In it's entirety. Completely free. Lord knows what would compel you, but if you wanted to read the original version of The Canterbury Tales and don't have your handy Norton's English Literature Volume One on hand? Money in the bank.

Now normally this is something I wouldn't exactly share with my 'homies' so to say, but I can safely assume that since lovers of English are my predominate readership I think this is a handy tool; for if you are looking to peruse through some poetry or need to find a reference for some paper you are writing, this is an essential and invaluable resource that I am extremely surprised that I hadn't stumbled upon before. Similar to the previous references of the free education supplied by the likes of MIT, people in charge of technology are starting to get the hint: if you don't make it free and available on the internet, people will just have to steal it.

Or I guess technically you could visit your local, friendly library but memberships are just really expensive and it would require you to go somewhere, where wikisource is just oh so convenient.