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University
Library
You get over 100 books in
Microsoft eBook format, ranging from classics of erotica to important historical
texts on sexuality.
The
library includes:
The
birth control booklet that led directly to the author's death.
Mark Twain's secret bawdy
writings
The book that got a Disney
cartoon banned.
Erotic
books by D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, Daniel Defoe, Robert Burns, Walt
Whitman,
John
Cleland, and many other prominent writers
Historical
sex education books, from classic sex manuals from India to the first modern
marriage manuals.
The
first literature in English ever to be charged with obscenity
Government
sponsored porn
Some
of the rarest erotic books in existence
Some
of the most censored books in history
Classics
of crackpot anti-sex literature
Since
eBooks typically run around $3 each, this is a value of over $300!
The library will continue to expand with downloadable eBooks as part of
our Sexual Heritage in Print project.
Exhibits
You
also get the current library exhibit, Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks: 40
Years of Covers featuring the cover art from over 100 books from the
late 1950's through the 1980's. You'll learn about famous authors who turned
to writing softcore porn, and the book that destroyed a publishing empire
and brought down the full wrath of the Nixon Justice Department (a book
that, ironically, the publishers thought was unprosecutable).
Upcoming
exhbits include:
Erotic Bookplates
Imagining de Sade: Illustrating
the books of the Marquis de Sade
The Erotic Alphabet
About Microsoft eBooks
While the eBook format currently
only runs under Windows, the player is free and there are a number of important
features. It has a built-in dictionary allowing you to lookup any word
in the text, there is full text search, scalable type, you can bookmark,
highlight, draw on, or take notes on any page, and text can be read aloud.
It also works under
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