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She's grinning because she got hooked on an Agatha Christie whodunit without spending a penny.

For Jane Austen’s complete catalog, Project Gutenberg’s your place. For something scary from Stephen King, head to hoopla.

Ellen Gutoskey






















Employees at the Niagara Mohawk Power Company control facility in Buffalo, New York, go through a round of Y2K testing toward the end of December 1999.

Y2K was not the world-ending catastrophe that the media, governments, and tech gurus had predicted. But it still led to some weird, expensive, and sometimes hilarious glitches.

Jason Serafino