Students looking for outside reading inspiration should look no further than manybooks.net.  It’s a repository of ebook versions of out-of-print, rare, and just plain fascinating books, formatted for use with Acrobat Reader, Palm devices, iPods, and other tools.  For example:

Howard Pyle: Book of Pirates

Mark Twain: The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut

 There are plenty more.  Poke around the site and see what you find.  Leave a comment with a link to anything particularly good.