English Resources

INTRODUCTION
The works prepared below use the New Times 9pt font, have very small margins and can be photocopied without wasting vast amounts of paper. They have been designed to be printed on both sides of an A4 sheet, having a larger margin on the inside than on the outside of the leaf.

I intend to publish here stylesheets and templates for Open Office so that others can easily produce their own compressed typographical books in PDF. Also I will try and write and publish here a howto manual and a tips and tricks section. Later, depending on the release of Rebol 3, I hope to be able to supply some software that will speed things along.

Ideally, my long term plan is to create the software to create XML structured literature, and stylesheets that allow a variety of PDF formats to be produced as well as text "cleaned-up" for use in Voice Synthesis. I have found the combined use of printed text with variable speed Voice Synthesis software to be highly successful in significantly increasing the reading speeds of High School students to >400 words per minute, that is up to educated adult reading speeds, with commensurate increases in comprehension. A later addition will have information on how to set up such a software environment.

I will also publish soon information of where to find public domain literature on the net, how to purchase ebooks and how to crack the text to enable these to be likewise formatted. Copyrighted works can be used by teachers for the purpose of study under common law in Australia. However, this wiki is nonrestrictive, and publishing such works here where any member of public may obtain a copy is a breach of Copyright and will be deleted

SHORT STORIES
A Hanging by George Orwell (1931)

1 x A4 compressed typography PDF file. Created in OpenOffice by G. Schofield.

The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
31 x A4 compressed typography PDF file - created in OpenOffice by Greg Schofield

From the works of William Shakespeare:

Othello (1604)
19 x A4 compressed typography PDF file - created in OpenOffice by Greg Schofield

MacBeth (1606)
13 x A4 compressed typography PDF file - created in OpenOffice by Greg Schofield

From the works of Robert Louis Stevenson:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (1886)
12 x A4 compressed typography PDF file - created in OpenOffice by Greg Schofield

From the works of H.G. Wells:

The War of the Worlds (1898)
28 x A4 compressed typography PDF file - created in OpenOffice by Greg Schofield

From the works of Stephen Crane:

The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
22 x A4 compressed typography PDF file - created in OpenOffice by Greg Schofield

From the works of Harold Brighouse:

Hobson's Choice (1915)
20 x A4 compressed typography PDF file - created in OpenOffice by Greg Schofield