Most of the CCEL archive, including the Classic Christian Books, the World Wide Study Bible, and the Early Church Fathers, has been put on a CD-ROM, which you can order from the Wheaton College bookstore for $29 + shipping ($4.50 in the US, $5.50 elsewhere).

This CD-ROM is the result of four years of my work and the work of many volunteers scanning, typing, formatting, proofreading, and collecting public domain resources. All share a common goal: to make important, edifying, classic Christian books and study resources widely available. You may use and further distribute the public-domain texts on this CD-ROM in any way you please.

The CD-ROM has 23,000 files, mostly web pages, which you can view with your own web browser (or install Microsoft Internet Explorer, which is included on the CD-ROM for Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.) See the README file from the CD-ROM for more information about contents and compatibility.

The CD-ROM is a partial mirror of the CCEL web site -- a copy of the web pages. The CD-ROM will enable you to access the material on the web site when you don't have an Internet connection (or your Internet connection is too slow). The proceeds from the sale of this CD-ROM will go toward the further development of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and its distribution overseas -- no one will make a profit from its sale.

In general, the books on the CD-ROM are exact copies of the print version of the book, possibly with a small number of typographical errors. However, a few of the books have not been proofread and will have a larger number of errors. Some of the books also come from public domain sources and bibliographic information is unavailable and formatting is varied.

Searching: AltaVista Personal Search Engine 97 is included on the CD-ROM. It gives you all the power of the Alta Vista search engine for the CD-ROM and/or your local files. It requires Windows 95 or NT, 16MB RAM, and 150-200 MB of free disk space to index the CD-ROM. More information on installation and use is available. You don't need to install it to use the CD-ROM, though.

Note for overseas users: If you are overseas, you have access to a computer with a CD-ROM drive, and if the cost of purchasing a CD-ROM would be a burden, please email me about receiving a free copy. A limited number of free copies will be available, especially for locations such as the former Soviet Union, Africa, India, and the like.

Try before you buy! The CD-ROM is mounted on the CCEL server's CD-ROM drive, and you can try it to see exactly what's included. What you will see is exactly what you'll see when you use the CD-ROM -- except that network delays will have been eliminated.

Note that some books that are linked on the CCEL index page or on the World Wide Study Bible that are not actually on the CCEL web server and therefore not on the CD-ROM. For example, only four of the Bible translations in the WWSB are included on the CD-ROM -- KJV, ASV, YLT, and Darby. Links preceeded by @ are to documents that are not on the CD-ROM

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