- Appleton, Victor. Tom Swift and His Giant
Cannon. McLean, VA: IndyPublish.com, [1913]
2002. ISBN 1-4043-3589-7.
- The link above is to a paperback reprint of the original
1913 novel, 16th in the original Tom Swift series, which is in
the public domain. I actually read this novel on my PalmOS PDA
(which is also my mobile phone, so it's usually right at hand).
I always like to have some light reading available which doesn't
require a long attention span or intense concentration to pass the
time while waiting in line at the post office or other dreary moments
one can't program, and early 20th century juvenile pulp fiction on
a PDA fills the bill superbly. This novel lasted about a year and a
half until I finished it earlier today in the check-out line at the
grocery store. The PalmOS version I read was produced as a demo from
the Project
Gutenberg EText of the novel. This Palm version
doesn't seem to be available any more (and was inconvenient, being
broken into four parts in order to fit on early PalmPilots with
limited memory). For those of you who prefer an electronic edition,
I've posted downloadable files
of these texts in a variety of formats.
October 2004 