Rock & Roll Farm

Monday! Mar 31 2003 // 2:25 pm //

what’s a website for?

since we’re Marooned and all, i’ll tell you about the time Bartholomew and his men were all ready for their hot and bloody work.

i’ve fallen in love with Pirates & Great Sea Rovers, by George Alfred Williams; published by George Alfred Williams at Children’s Books Online: the Rosetta Project, the largest collection of illustrated antique children’s books on line…we think.

“The Rosetta Project’s collections currently contain about 2,000 antique children’s books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. We shall be putting these combined collections on line as funding permits. Our current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line will create an online library of aproximately 65,000 html pages. However, as we are still collecting books from around the world, we expect the Rosetta Project online library to eventually reach millions of html pages.

After all, if a free online library’s reach cannot exceed its grasp, then what’s a website for?”

indeed.