J & S DeSimone Booksellers
Free Downloads
As a way of saying thank you to our customers and friends, and to introduce new readers and collectors to the attractions of books and history, we'd like to offer visitors to our site some free screensavers and e-books.
Left-click on the links (not the images) below to see full-size images of the screensaver of your choice.
Right-click on the link and a box will come up saying "Save As' or "Save Link As'. A box should appear asking you where you would like the image or ebook to go on your home computer.
Type in a place if there isn't a default spot selected already, and then press Save. The item will download into your computer at home.
Screensavers:
The Hindenburg Disaster
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Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The Big Three
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Queen Nefertiti
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Books Beat Fascism
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Robert E. Lee
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E-books:
The e-books below are plain text versions of some of the greatest historical literature ever written, now being made available to the public at no cost thanks to the efforts of Project Gutenberg.
Again, right-click on the link and a box will come up saying "Save As' or "Save Link As'.
Type in a place if there isn't a default spot selected already, and then press Save. The item will download automatically to your computer at home.
And remember that some of the text files are large, and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection.
The King James Bible: Old and New Testaments
Homer: The Iliad (Translated by Alexander Pope)
Plutarch: Lives Of The Noble Greeks And Romans
Thucydides: The Pelopennesian War
Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars
Thomas Carlyle: The French Revolution
Hamilton, Madison, Jay: The Federalist Papers
Robert E. Lee: Recollections and Letters
William Tecumseh Sherman: Memoirs
Abraham Lincoln: Papers and Writings
Winston Churchill: Collected Speeches and Writings
rowse Our Books:
Reading e-books is good. Reading regular books is good too, and a lot easier on the eyes.
If you find an ebook to your liking, don't forget that we either have or can find a superb edition of the same for you to enjoy in your armchair at home. As well as many other books of commentary or translations based on the books above.
So visit and browse our books page. And read Lincoln and Churchill the same they they used to read -- in good editions.
And stop by again soon. We hope to add new material from time to time and may even include music or speech or radio MP3s in the future -- free of charge. To thank you for being a customer and visitor.