and to make it easier to read some of those things from Project Gutenberg, etc...there is a to free program called yBook

"read text, RTF or HTML files and display the contents on side-by-side pages just like an open book. If you do a lot of reading from your screen (your own work, online workshop subs, short story subs) yBook will make life easier." Freeware.

other related programs at the site also, including one which will read to you out loud...