Famous Men of Modern Times

"This easy to read text will be not only be a delight for your child to read, but also provide a great insight to the foundations of the modern world. You can experience the adventurous times of the birth of the modern era through the eyes of such men as Lorenzo de Medici, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, Newton, Napoleon, Gladstone, and George Washington."

Overview here.


Authors John Henry Haaren, Addison B. Poland
Publisher American Book Co., 1909
Length 352 pages

Hero Tales from History

Book overview provided by Google Books:
"Here are mighty men of the world and makers of modern American. Some of the men chosen as the heroes of these stories were great figures in world history and were selected because they are among the foremost heroes of our own country and our own culture. Hero Tales from History are told with the thought of the mental development of the children. Each story has a hero, full of action and written in a clear and simple language.The history of the past can never become a vital thing to us or to those whom we teach until the men of the past are live, flesh and blood men."

Hero tales from history
Author Smith Burnham
Edition illustrated
Publisher The John C. Winston company, 1922

Overview here.

Black American History/Google Books

The Negro in Our History
Author Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher Associated Publishers, 1922
Overview here.

Pepper & Salt; or, Seasoning for Young Folk/Internet Archives

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The Story Book of Science/Google Books

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The story-book of science
Authors Jean-Henri Fabre, Florence Constable Bicknell
Translated by Florence Constable Bicknell
Publisher The Century Co., 1917

Great Inventors and Their Inventions/Google Books

Overview

Great Inventors and Their Inventions
Author Frank Puterbaugh Bachman
Publisher American Book Company, 1918
Length 304 pages

History of Hannibal the Carthaginian

Overview

History of Hannibal the Carthaginian
Author Jacob Abbott
Publisher Harper, 1878

Alexander the Great/Goggle Books

Overview

Alexander the Great
Makers of history, Jacob Abbott
Author Jacob Abbott
Publisher Harper, 1901
Length 278 pages

The Classic Myths in English Literature/Google Books

Overview
The Classic Myths in English Literature
by Charles Mills Gayley, Thomas Bulfinch.
Publisher Ginn, 1893
Length 539 pages

The Elements of Geology / Google Books

Overview

The Elements of Geology
Author William Harmon Norton
Publisher Ginn & company, 1905
Length 461 pages

Free E-Book: Embracing the E-Book Revolution

I'm not sure how long this PDF download will be free, but it is helpful for those wanting to learn more about using E-books for homeschooling.

Click here.

HT to Denese.

Primary Word Studies/Google Books

Overview

Word studies: Primary book and Advanced book
Author Edwin Samuels Sheppe
Publisher B.F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1905
Length242 pages

Practical English for High Schools/Google Books

Overview

Practical English for High Schools
Authors William Dodge Lewis, James Fleming Hosic
Publisher American Book Co., 1916
Length 415 pages

Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year/Many Books

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Famous Men of Rome/Google Books

Overview

Famous Men of Rome
Author John Haaren
Publisher Wilder Publications, 1904
Length 120 pages

The Elements of Geology/Google Books

Overview

The Elements of Geology
William Harmon Norton
Publisher Ginn & company, 1905
Length 461 pages

Elements of Chemistry/Google Books

Overview volume 1

Overview volume 2(inorganic)

Overview volume 3(organic)

Pinneo's Primary Grammar of the English Language: for Beginners

Overview

Pinneo's primary grammar of the English language: for beginners
Author Timothy Stone Pinneo
Edition revised
Publisher W.B. Smith, 1854
Length 160 pages

Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony/Project Gutenberg

Click here. Ages 8-10.

Camping For Boys/Project Gutenburg

Camping For Boys by Henry William Gibson
ASSOCIATION PRESS
NEW YORK
1913

Click here.

Vacation Camping for Girls/Google Books

Click here.

Hints for Camping and Walking/Google Books

Overview

The Fishing-rod and How to Use It /Google Books

Overview

The Fishing-rod and how to Use it: A Treatise on the Various Arts of Angling, Trolling, Spinning, and Fly-fishing
Author Glenfin
Publisher Baily Brothers, 1860
Length 87 pages

The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen/Google Books

Overview

The complete manual for young sportsmen: with directions for handling the gun, the rifle, and the rod; the art of shooting on the wing; the breaking, management, and hunting of the dog; the varieties and habits of game; river, lake, and sea fishing, etc
Author Frank Forester
Publisher W.A. Townsend, 1864
Length 477 pages

Uncle Wiggily/Google Books

Overview

Title Uncle Wiggily Longears: Complete in Two Parts. Fifty-two Stories, One for Each Week of the Year ...
Author Howard Roger Garis
Publisher R.F. Fenno, 1915
Length 200 pages

How to Study/Google Books

Overview

How to Study
Author George Fillmore Swain
Publisher McGraw-Hill book company, inc, 1917
Length 65 pages

Computing Tables and Mathematical Formulas/Google Books

Overview

Computing Tables and Mathematical Formulas: Arranged for the Use of High Schools and Colleges
Author Eugene Henry Barker
Publisher Ginn and company, 1913
Length 88 pages

From Stargazers to Starships

A self-contained book-on-the-web course on basic astronomy, Newtonian mechanics, the sun (and associated physics), and spaceflight and spacecraft.

The Standard Fourth Grade Reader

Overview
The standard fourth reader
Author Martin Grove Brumbaugh
Publisher C. Sower Co., 1899

The Standard Fifth Reader

The standard fifth reader
Author Martin Grove Brumbaugh
Publisher C. Sower company, 1899
Overview

The Standard Fourth Grade Reader/Google Books

The standard first [ -fifth] reader
Martin Grove Brumbaugh
Publisher C. Sower Co., 1899
Overview

A Beginner's History of Philosophy

Volume One.

Volume Two.

A Beginner's History of Philosophy
Author Herbert Ernest Cushman
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919

When Mother Lets Us Sew/Google Books

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Overview.

When Mother Lets Us Sew
Virginia Ralston
Moffat, Yard and company, 1910
83 pages

General Science/Project Gutenberg

GENERAL SCIENCE BY BERTHA M. CLARK, PH.D., HEAD OF THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT,
WILLIAM PENN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS,
PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK - CINCINNATI - CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, 1912

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Builders of Democracy/Google Books

Read here.

Overview.
Builders of democracy
Author Edwin Almiron Greenlaw
Publisher Scott, Foresman and Co., 1918
Length 339 pages

The Wooster Fourth Reader/Google Books

Begin reading here.

Overview
The Wooster Fourth Reader
Author Lizzie E. Wooster
Publisher Wooster & Co., 1907

Our Hero, General U. S. Grant/Google Books

Begin reading here.

Overview.

Our Hero, General U. S. Grant: When, Where, and how He Fought. In Words of One Syllable
Authors Josephine Pollard, Edwin Forbes
Illustrated by Edwin Forbes
Publisher McLoughlin brothers, 1885
Length 167 pages

History of Russia for Younger Children/Google Books

Begin reading here.

Overview
History of Russia in words of one syllable
Author Helen Ainslie Smith
Illustrated by Joseph L. Blamire, Edgar Barclay, Alexander De Rar, J. K.
Publisher A.L. Burt Co., 1898
Length 228 pages

Stories from Don Quixote/Google Books

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Overview

Stories from Don Quixote: Written Anew for Young People
Authors James Baldwin, John Lang, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher American book company, 1910
Length 287 pages

The Arithmetic Reader for Second Grade Pupils

Begin reading here here.

Overview

The arithmetic reader for second grade pupils
Authors Frank H. Hall, Geo. Sherwood & Co
Publisher Sherwood & Co., 1898
Length 96 pages

Changes at Google Books

Today I noticed a whole new screen when I clicked into specific Google Books. There is no longer a button on the sidebar for HTML. I did find it on the bottom of the main page for Google Books. So now if you want to print off a few pages or images, you need to go to the Google Main Menu page and click at the bottom to HTML mode. This is the only way to copy and save images of specific pages to your computer. Entire books can still be downloaded to a PDF, and plain text is still available at the book links.

Or copy and paste: http://books.google.com/books?output=html into your browser.

Clickable link to go directly to Google Books in HTML mode.

The Stone-Millis Arithmetics Primary/Google Books

Click here.

First Lessons in Arithmetic/Internet Archives

Click here.

A History of Mathematics/Google Books

A history of mathematics
By Florian Cajori
Published by Macmillan & Co., 1893
422 pages

Begin reading here.

Main page.

This would be appropriate for advanced high school students

Boys of Other Countries/Internet Archives

BOYS OF OTHER COUNTRIES
STORIES FOR AMERICAN BOYS
BY BAYARD TAYLOR
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1876


STORY I.
THE LITTLE POST-BOY
STORY II.
THE PASHA'S SON
STORY III.
JON OF ICELAND
STORY IV.
THE Two HERD-BOYS
STORY V.
THE YOUNG SERF

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Heroic Legends/Google Books

Heroic Legends: The Stories of St. George and the Dragon, Robin Hood, Richard and Blondel, and Other Legends

By Agnes Grozier Herbertson, Helen Stratton

Contributor Leon J. Whitsell

Published by Blackie and Son, 1908

253 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Elementary - early middle school.

Everyday Classics: Seventh Reader : American Life and Literature /Google Books

Everyday Classics: Seventh Reader : American Life and Literature for Grammar Grades and Junior High School
By Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike
Published by Macmillan Co., 1918
424 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Rollo on the Rhine

Rollo on the Rhine

By Jacob Abbott

Published by Sheldon, 1868

Item notes: v. 5

218 pages

Begin reading here.

Main page.

Heroes of Progress: Stories of Successful Americans/Google books

Heroes of Progress: Stories of Successful Americans

By Eva March Tappan

Published by Houghton Mifflin company, 1921

263 pages

Main page

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CONTENTS

John James Audubon, Lover and Student of Birds i

Mark Hopkins, President of Williams College . . . .11

Cyrus H. McCoRM1CK, Inventor of the Reaper .... 20

Charles Goodyear, a Man who Persevered .... 30

William T. G.morton, Master of Pain 39

Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing-Machine .... 47

Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and Teacher 54

Henry Oscar Houghton, Printer and Publisher . . .61

Cyrus W. Field, the Manwho Laid the Atlantic Cable. . .71

Jean Lou1s Rodolphe Agassiz, Beloved Teacher of Science . 79

Julia Ward Howe, Author of the "Battle Hymn of the Repub-

lic" 91

George Thorndike Angell, Knight of Kindness to Animals 97

Luther Burbank, Plant-Breeder 106

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone . .115

John Wanamaker, Founder of the Departme.nl Store . . .122

Frances E. Willard, Temperance Reformer 132

Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross . . . 140

Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute . . 147

Augustus Saint-gaudens, Greatest American Sculptor . .157

James Jerome Hill, Builder of Railroads 168

John Muir, the Man who Loved Trees and Mountains . .179

Theodore Thomas, the Man who Taught us to Love Music . 189

Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor 199

Edwin Austin Abbey, Illustrator and Painter .... 208

Samuel Pierpont Langley, Inventor of the First Heavier-than-

Air Flying Machine 217

Andrew Carnegie, the Man who Would not Die Rich . . 228

William Crawford Gorgas, who Made the Canal Zone

Safe 237

Robert E. Peary, Discoverer of the North Pole .... 245

George Washington Goethals, Builder of the Panama Canal 254

European Hero Stories/Google Books

European hero stories
By Eva March Tappan
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909
249 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Hero Stories of France/Google Books

Hero Stories of France

By Eva March Tappan

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920

204 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

The Butterfly Vivarium; or, Insect Home/Google books

The butterfly vivarium; or, insect home: or, insect home
By Henry Noel Humphreys
Published 1858
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Sep 8, 2006Main page.

Begin reading here.

Learning to Read; a Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Readers: A Manual and Readers/Google Books

Teacher's guide for Aldine Readers Primer through Book Two:

Begin reading here.

Learning to Read; a Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Readers: A Manual for Teachers Using The Aldine Readers

By Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, Catherine Turner Bryce

Edition: revised

Published by Newson & company, 1918

243 pages

Main page

Aldine Readers:

The Aldine Readers Primer(Internet Archives)

The Aldine Readers: Book One

The Aldine Readers: Book Two

Rollo's Experiments/Google Books

Rollo's Experiments

By Jacob Abbott, William Jay Baker, Sheldon & Company (New York, N.Y.)

Illustrated by Frederick M. Coffin

Contributor William Jay Baker, John Andrew, Sheldon & Company, Phillips, Sampson & Company

Published by Sheldon, 1862

180 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

About third - fourth grade level.

The New Century Third Reader/Google Books

The New Century Third Reader
By Henry S. Tibbits
Edition: revised
Published by Rand, McNally, 1899
238 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Stories of Patriotism: A Patriotic Reader for the Intermediate Grades

Stories of patriotism: a patriotic reader for the intermediate grades

By Norma Helen Deming, Katharine Isabel Bemis

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918

190 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Opera Stories from Wagner/Google Books

Opera Stories from Wagner: A Reader for Primary Grades

By Florence Akin

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1915

106 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

About a fourth - fifth grade reading level.

Art Studies for Schools/Goggle Books

Art Studies for Schools: Or, Hints on the Use of Reproductions of High Art in the Schoolroom
By Rydingsvärd, Anna Maria von Rydingsvärd
Published by A. Flanagan company, 1903
184 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Teacher's helps, stories about art. Elementary school level.

Being a Boy/Google Books

Being a boy

By Charles Dudley Warner

Illustrated by James Wells Champney

Edition: 26

Published by Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1896

186 pages

Popular literature for boys at the turn of the century. Excerpts of this book were published in fifth grade readers. This book is about a boy growing up on a farm in Massachusetts.

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Blend Phonics Reading Program

Reading Made Easy with Blend Phonics for First Grade (1980) by Hazel Loring( PDF).

This includes blend phonics supplements(scroll down at link).

Fifth Reader/Google Books

Fifth reader ...

By Charles Maurice Stebbins

Published by American Book company, 1913

480 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

A Practical System of Modern Geography/Google Books

Another interesting geography book, pre-Civil War. It's actually general enough to still be of use, and interesting for historical period study. The language suggests middle elementary school, easy to read and understand. Lovely illustrations throughout which could be used for projects and time lines. Comprehension questions included.


A practical system of modern geography, or A view of the present state of the world ...: Revised and illustrated by a new enlarged atlas
By Jesse Olney
Edition: 60
Published by Pratt, Woodford & co., 1849

Main page

Begin reading here.

An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World/Google Books

Interesting for a period study.

An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World, on Mercator's Projection: Containing an Index to the Various Countries, Cities, Towns, Islands, &c., Represented on the Map

By Samuel Augustus Mitchell

Published by S.A. Mitchell, 1846

Begin reading here.
Main page.

Downloadable map can be found here .

Free Math Courses Online

Not free ebooks, but math can be a tricky subject to teach(and expensive), so I thought I'd link this here. The Education Portal has a nice list of colleges, universities and other learning centers offering free math courses online and software. Click here.

Pollard's Synthetic Second Reader

Mislabeled by Google Books as First reader.

Begin reading here.

Main page

Pollard's synthetic first reader

By Rebecca Smith Pollard

Published by Western Pub. House, 1895

159 pages

Pollard's Synthetic First Reader

Pollard's synthetic first reader

By Rebecca Smith Pollard

Published by Western Pub. House, 1895

159 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

First Book for Little Folks(phonics)/Google Books

First book for little folks
By Rebecca Smith Pollard
Published by American Book Co., 1898
Main page.
Begin reading here

A Primer of Calculus/Internet Archives

Click here.

The Step-by-Step Primer/Internet Archives

Click here.

Geography: or, A Description of the World/Google Books

Geography: or, A description of the world

By Daniel Adams

Edition: 5

Published by Lincoln & Edmands, 1820

335 pages

Dated, but still useful.

Main page.

Begin reading here.

The Historical Geography of the Holy Land/Google Books

Begin reading here.

The historical geography of the Holy land: especially in relation to the history of Israel and of the early church
By George Adam Smith
Edition: 9
Published by A. C. Armstrong and son, 1897
713 pages

Main page.

Rollo's Vacation/Google Book

Rollo's vacation

By Jacob Abbott

Contributor Samuel Colman

Published by Samuel Colman, 1855

Original from the University of California

Digitized Nov 6, 2008

191 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Fourth or fifth grade reader.

Review of Rollo series books.

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

An early elementary nature/geography reader.

The stories Mother Nature told her children
By Jane Andrews
Published by Ginn & Company, 1888
161 pages

Begin reading here.

Main page.

Persia/Google Books

An interesting booklet on Persia, modern day Iran.

Persia
By Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1846
200 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

The Seven Champions of Christendom /Google Books

The seven champions of Christendom: a new version from the most ancient chronicles and records, all other authentic and reliable sources of information especially adapted for the enlightenment, edification, and instruction of the rising generation
By William Henry Giles Kingston, Richard Johnson, Sampson Low, Son & Co, Sampson Low, Son, and Co
Illustrated by John Franklin, T. L.
Contributor Sampson Low, Son & Co, Sampson Low, Son, and Co, D. Appleton and Company, Chiswick Press, Whittingham and Wilkins
Published by Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1861
235 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Stories from English History/Google Books

Stories from English History: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

By Albert Franklin Blaisdell

Published by Ginn & Company, 1897

191 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

English Fairy Tales Retold/Google Books

English Fairy Tales: Retold
By Flora Annie Webster Steel, Arthur Rackham
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Contributor Arthur Rackham
Edition: large print
Published by Macmillan, 1918
363 pages

Main page

Begin reading here

Children's Saint George's Day Ebook Links

Click on title.

The Discovery of the Old Northwest/Google Books

The discovery of the old Northwest: and its settlement by the French

By James Baldwin

Published by American Book Company, 1901

272 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Late elementary, early middle school.

Rollo at School/Google books

The Rollo Series: Rollo at school
By Jacob Abbott
Published by Sheldon & company, 1868
Item notes: v. 5
Main page

Begin reading here.

Appears to be a fourth grade reader.

Hannibal/Google Books

Hannibal

By Jacob Abbott

Published by Harper, 1901

295 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

The Alhambra /Google Books

The Alhambra

By Washington Irving, Edward Kilburn Robinson, Norman Irving Black

Published by Ginn and company, 1915

370 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

The Boys of '76/Google Books

Historical revolutionary war fiction for middle school and up.

The boys of '76: A history of the battles of the revolution

By Charles Carleton Coffin

Published by Harper & brothers, 1899

Item notes: v. 2

398 pages

Begin reading here
Main page

Stories of Famous Pictures/Google books

Early elementary, educational art reader.

Stories of Famous Pictures
By Ella Marie Powers
Published by Educational publishing company, 1904

Main page.

Begin reading here.

The Cave Twins/Google Books

The Cave Twins
By Lucy Fitch Perkins
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1916
162 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Legends of Charlemagne/Google Books

Legends of Charlemagne; Or Romance of the Middle Ages
By Thomas Bulfinch
Published by J.E. Tilton and Co., 1866
271 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Rollo at Play/Google Books

Rollo at Play
By Jacob Abbott, Charles Copeland, Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1897
191 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Appears to be third grade(advanced) - fourth grade level.

A Child's Guide to Pictures (1908)/Internet Archives

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The "Little folks" painting book : a series of outline engravings for water-colour painting/Internet Archives

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Unfortunately these Kate Greenway pictures have already been water colored, but they may be still paintable if printed out black and white. There are stories to go along with each engraving.

Kaplan Anatomy Coloring Book/Internet Archives

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Hand sewing lessons; a graded course for schools and for the home(1905)/Internet Archives

Click here to view and downlaod.
More here.


HT to Denese.

Studies of Great Composers/Google Books

Studies of Great Composers
By Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Published by G. Routledge and sons, limited, 1904
376 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

High school reading level.

Shop Mathematics/Google Books

Shop Mathematics
By John Michael Christman
Published by Macmillan, 1922
321 pages

Main page
Begin reading here.

Child Garden Magazine for April

April, 1894: stories, songs, and play.

Begin reading here.

The Story of a Plush Bear/Google Books

The story of a plush bear

By Laura Lee Hope

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1921

120 pages

Main page.
Begin Reading here.

The Child's Pictorial Preceptor /Google Books

Quite old, but timeless. Pages would make nice mottoes for the classroom, or for framing.

The Child's pictorial preceptor

By E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm)

Contributor E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm)

Published by Published by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg Hartford, Conn. & Berea, Ohio., 1842

46 pages

Main page.
Begin reading here.

Easter Lily Stories and More

Second grade reader: Tom's Easter Lily

Second grade, American Reader: The Easter Lily

Second Grade, Sprague Classic Reader: The Easter Lily.

How to fold an Easter lily.

A Paper Easter, girl's crafts: Easter lily, and others here.


Also see: Children's Lent, Holy Week and Easter Printables

School and Home Gardens/Google Books

Begin reading here.
Main page.
School and home gardens
By William Herman Dietrich Meier
Published by Ginn and company, 1913
319 pages

Rollo Learning to Work

Rollo at Work

By Jacob Abbott, Charles Copeland

Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1897

191 pages

Main page.
Begin reading here.

About a fourth grade reading level.

The Art Crafts for Beginners/ Google Books

This book presents historical background information and directions. Written for adults, but wonderful for homeschool projects led by an adult.

The art crafts for beginners

By Frank Goodwin Sanford, Arthur F. Phillips

Published by Century, 1906

270 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.