Good news! The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider just discovered (D’oh!) archive.org, “a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages,” not to mention a stash of 1.8 million free e-books.

So we just freely downloaded to our Kindle (a nice little machine, especially in poorly lit hotel rooms) the following:

1) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s comrade), by Mark Twain

2) My four weeks in France, by Ring Lardner – a volume the hardworking staff had never come across during three decades of dedicated Lardnering.

On the downside, the free downloads are a bit of a mess visually.

Then again, never look a gift e-book in the mouth.