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Text of a 1911 work by Ambrose Bierce you've probably heard of, but not read.

Free e-books at the University of Michigan, with one annoying feature - almost everything is reached by search, not by menu, which might be how some librarians approach libraries, but not really how anybody else does. Such a design eliminates the digital analog of the experience of walking into the stacks and just running into a book. Still, it is free reading and that is always of interest.

The forums are a waste of the small amount of space and (probably) bandwidth they consume - brief outbursts reminiscent on the comments on Youtube. The interesting idea can be seen when one enters the name of an author in the "Map of Literature" searchbox, and is given a cloud of other authors name, not just telling you which the site recommend that you try reading the work of, but how much confidence the site has in the recommendation. One sees the names wander across the screen and then settle down, oscillating slightly, the close the name of a new author being to that of the name you entered, which will be seen in the center of the screen, the more likely you are to like that other author - or at least so the developer of the system claims.

Với bài viết này, Aroma muốn chia sẻ với các bạn những câu giao tiếp tiếng anh trong khách sạn trong tình huống đặt phòng. Kèm theo đó là mẫu hội thoại thực tế để các bạn luyện tập cách sử dụng mẫu câu phù hợp với ngữ cảnh cũng như nâng cao khả năng Reading của mình.

More texts that were published long enough ago, to have passed into the public domain.