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1. Who Are You? 2. I bought the CD Set how do I get started? 3. Are the books on the CDs legal? 4. Are the books text files or pfd and once I buy the books will I need to connect to the internet? 5. Are the books in English? 6. Which books are in PDF format? 7. I am a teacher is there a Teacher's Discount? 8. Which books have both the original Latin or Greek and the English translation? 9. How do I cite from these books? 10. Do you offer Large Order Discounts or Any Discounts? 11. I notice that some of the books are on your web page in their entirety. Why should I buy the CD Set? 12. Is it possible to do a word search on a pfd file? 13. How do I get the text from the 5000 classics into my Rocket eBook (REB1100)? 14. How To Copy The Contents of All 3CDs to Your Harddrive So That You Can Browse All The Texts Without Changing CDs. F.A.Q 1. Who Are You? We are a small firm founded in 2002 that specializes in making CD Curricula from Public domain books. We are incorporated in Miami, Florida but work out of both Florida and California. There are basically two of us Ray (my brother) and Me (Jorge/the president of the company). You can reach us at mail@brainfly.net or by regular mail at: Brainfly,Inc. c/o Jorge Llaurado 5100 Garfield Ave. #46 Sacramento CA 95841-3839 <<Back to top 2. I bought the CD Set how do I get started? If file "start.htm" does not open on it's own when you insert the CD then open the file "start.htm" with your internet browser. For more technical help click here <<Back to top 3. Are the books on the CDs legal? Yes, the books on the CDs are in the Public Domain. This means that their copyright has expired. All of the texts on our " Primary Literary Sources for Ancient History " CD set are now in the Public Domain including the 29 Loeb Classics which contain both the original Latin or Greek and the English translation. We have verified to the best of our ability that these texts are in the public domain here in the U.S. We have checked every text to make sure that they were written before 1923 and for those written after 1923 we paid for the US copyright office to make the search to make sure that they are no longer under Copyright. All the texts in the " 5000 Classics " CD set are from the Gutenberg Project and they are in the public domain(except for those which are clearly marked as copyrighted). To the best of our knowledge all the works are in the Public domain and you can copy any part and length of the texts and use it in your classes. <<Back to top 4. Are the books text files or pfd and once I buy the books will I need to connect to the internet? The CDs contain both Html and PDF texts and are completely self contained. The CD's contain the complete texts of all the books. You will not need to connect to the Internet for any of the books. The HTML texts are searchable. Using the browsers find function and on the our web page you can search all the HTMLs using the Google Box at the top of the web page. The PDFs are a complete scan of the books including table of contents, indexes and original pagination. They are however not searchable. You will have to use the indexes and table of contents You can go to our web page (www.brainfly.net/start.htm) and see exactly which books are in html, and which are in PDF. The web page uses the same navigation interface as the CDs except that the cds contain the complete texts and the webpage only short samples. <<Back to top 5. Are the books in English? All the books are in English (English translations from the original languages) The Loeb Classics also include the original Latin or Greek as well. <<Back to top 6. Which books are in PDF format? The Full Texts of the Following Authors are in non-searchable PDF format but include the original Table of Contents and Index with original pagination : Ammianus Appian Archimedes Aulus Gellius Avianus Cato the Elder Celsus Cicero Demosthenes Dio Cassius Dionysius of Halicarnasus Euclid Eutropius Florus Frontinus Julian the Apostate Justinus Lysias Nepos Pausanias Plutarch Polibius Quintilian Quintus Curtius Sallus Seneca Strabo Varro Velleius Virtruvius The Following Books are in non-searchable PDF format but include the original Table of Contents and Index with original pagination: Guides to the Egyptian and Babylonian Rooms of The British Museum (Circa 1910) A Source-Book of Ancient History (1922) A History of the Ancient World (1913) A History of Greece (1900) A History of Rome (1921) Ancient Records of Egypt (1906) Records of the Past: Series 1 and 2 (1875-1899) (in 12 Volumes) <<Back to top 7. I am a teacher is there a Teacher's Discount? Yes, there is a teachers discount. Click here <<Back to top 8. Which books have both the original Latin or Greek and the English translation? Appian of Alexandria- Roman History V. 1-4- Greek/English Aulus Gellius - Attic Nights-V. 1-3 Latin/English Dio Cassius - Roman History -V. 1-9 Greek/English Diogenes Laertius - Lives of the Philosophers -V. 1-2 Greek/English Frontinus (Sextus Julius Frontinus) - On Water - Latin/English Julian the Apostate (The Emperor Julian) - V. 1-3 Greek/English Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) - Education of an Orator - V. 1-2 Latin/English Quintus Curtius (Quintus Curtius Rufus) - History of Alexander - V.1-2 Latin/English Seneca - Epistles -Moral letters 1-92 Latin/English <<Back to top 9. How do I cite from these books? The Loeb Classics (and all the other PDFs) are cut according to the table of contents of the books. The author pages are organized to reflect this (for example: http://www.brainfly.com/plsfah/html/diogenes.htm ). The table of contents is usually clearly labeled or the first file on the list (ie. Lives of the Philosophers V2: Book 6 - Antisthenes .........brn0246o.pdf .......Disk 2) Just open it and you will see the table of contents. Since they are photographic copies of the originals in their entirety the original pagination has been retained. When you cite you should use the PDF as if it were a page in the original book. For Example: The "Life of Antithenes" starts on page 3 of book 6 which is in Vol. 2 of "The lives of the Philosophers" by Diogenes Laertius trans. by R.D. Hicks (1925). The html files are more problematic since they are compiled from different editions. You can include a link to the book or since these html files are quite small by todays standards include the entire book in an attachment. The modern age has made citation somewhat more difficult. For purely electronic versions of books you should consult your Professor or a modern authority on citing information from the web. <<Back to top 10. Do you offer Large Order Discounts or Any Discounts? Yes. Click here <<Back to top 11. I notice that some of the books are on your web page in their entirety. Why should I buy the CD Set.? The Full Texts of the Following Authors are found only on the CDs: Ammianus Appian Archimedes Aulus Gellius Avianus Cato the Elder Celsus Cicero Demosthenes Dio Cassius Dionysius of Halicarnasus Euclid Eutropius Florus Frontinus Julian the Apostate Justinus Lysias Nepos Pausanias Plutarch Polibius Quintilian Quintus Curtius Sallus Seneca Strabo Varro Velleius Virtruvius The Full Texts of the Following books are only found on the CD Set: Guides to the Egyptian and Babylonian Rooms of The British Museum (Circa 1910) A Source-Book of Ancient History (1922) A History of the Ancient World (1913) A History of Greece (1900) A History of Rome (1921) Ancient Records of Egypt (1906) Records of the Past: Series 1 and 2 (1875-1899) (in 12 Volumes) <<Back to top 1. Copy the directory /brainfly/ on CD1 and all the sub-directories under it to your harddrive. (If you dont't have the /brainfly/ directory on CD 1 download it <b

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