Remember those times, about 5 years ago, when everyone thought that books would slowly disappear as people took to reading texts for free online and on nifty digital reading devices? Well, since then a surprisingly top-shelf library of free online books has acrued thanks to Project Gutenberg (Google Books, meanwhile, has been a big disappointment).

Campus blog Universities and Colleges takes us on a tour of this new web library with their listicle of 100 Free Canonical Books. We’ll be starting our complimentary web reading with number 84, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

(via Neatorama)