As part of the task today, Alex was reading some stories to PJ (his master) and the group. The stories were old classics.
This reminded me of something I had read somewhere, that once books reach a certain age or the author has been dead for a certain time, the copyright on the work is lifted.
There is a Web Site which allows you to download the text of copyright-free books, for nothing, and nice people are forever typing in such material for posting.
I had a search for the site. It is called "Project Gutenberg" and the address is
http://promo.net/pg/
Something to do once BB3 has finished...