To some people, reading classics authored by writers long deceased has the unfortunate implication of “school assignment”. To others, it’s a process of pleasant discoveries. I dare say even those who have advanced degrees in literature, or those who are the most voracious readers, have one Bronte, one Turgenev, one Conrad, one Proust squeezed at a corner of their bookshelves which they swear they will get to one day but have so far not. And that’s just fiction. Equally eager to be “discovered” are the writings of heavy thinkers such as Spinoza, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Russell. Thanks to the diligent folks at some university e-libraries and organizations like Project Gutenberg, the enduring words of those wise men and women can now be piped into a computer near you.

Okay, enough name-dropping today.

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