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Initially published in 1908 this is a book for children about the adventures of some young people as they set up a library in their town. Wide Awake was a juvenile periodical which included stories and poems (on 'improving' lines) as well as games and the four girls at the centre of the story met in ways related to this periodical. This is another one I was giving a read through before it goes up to Project Gutenberg, I did like it, but couldn't see today's children liking it at all. The "children" - who were 16/17 years old and very childish compared to today's teenagers - are very sententious and given to moralizing.
You might ask why I am reading these old books. Well, Project Gutenberg is a voluntary effort to preserve public domain material and make it available to everyone in the world, free of charge, via the internet. Many of the books there are provided by individual volunteers, but a lot are provided by Distributed Proofreaders (DP) - another voluntary effort. DP volunteers scan in old books, journals etc as pictures, convert the pictures to text, check the text against the images of the original pages and upload the checked book to Project Gutenberg. The work is distributed across all the volunteers on the site, and the final part of the process for many of the books is "smooth reading", where one or more people pick up a book to read through for any remaining errors that jump out at you as you read. I like smooth reading, because I can do it when I'm not connected to the internet (basically if I'm not at work, I'm not connected). It's fun (really!)  ~~~~~~Signature's Off~~~~~~
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