ebooks Thing #22

WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet
The drought of March hath pierced to the root,
And bathed every vein in such licour,
Of which virtue engender'd is the flower;
When Zephyrus eke with his swoote breath
Inspired hath in every holt* and heath *grove, forest
The tender croppes* and the younge sun *twigs, boughs

I looked at NetLibrary. It appears to be a subscription service. Could not get far with it.

I tried doing research on Canterbury tales using ebooks. I was not impressed with this. Who would want to read a book on a laptop screen when one could curl up in front of a fire with a dusty copy checked out from the library and a pipe and small glass. But to each his own. I found several open source readers that can be downloaded for almost any operating system. Versiontracker has a slew. Most were free and some open source but none came with tobacco or whiskey.