A Planet for Your Thoughts
A Planet for Your Thoughts by James Norman is available here as the complete text, split into 175 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
A Planet for Your Thoughts by James Norman. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #62035.
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A Planet for Your Thoughts
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This edition of A Planet for Your Thoughts by James Norman carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #62035, divided into 2 chapters and 175 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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The complete text of A Planet for Your Thoughts is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #62035 and divided into 175 sections.
This page carries the whole of A Planet for Your Thoughts by James Norman, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #62035, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 874 sentences across 2 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.
How is A Planet for Your Thoughts divided for reading?
A Planet for Your Thoughts is presented in 2 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting A Planet for Your Thoughts as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 175 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 2 chapters.
Can I hear A Planet for Your Thoughts read aloud?
Yes. Every sentence and every individual word of A Planet for Your Thoughts can be played aloud, and each word shows its dictionary entry.
Every sentence of A Planet for Your Thoughts can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.
Questions about reading A Planet for Your Thoughts
Common questions about reading A Planet for Your Thoughts by James Norman on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Is this the complete text of A Planet for Your Thoughts?
Yes. All 874 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #62035 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of A Planet for Your Thoughts is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #62035, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does A Planet for Your Thoughts take to read?
About 72 minutes of reading across 175 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read A Planet for Your Thoughts section by section
How to work through A Planet for Your Thoughts section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Open a chapter
Choose one of the 2 chapters of A Planet for Your Thoughts to begin.
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Read one section
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
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Listen and tap
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Vocabulary met early in A Planet for Your Thoughts
Words and structures a reader meets early in A Planet for Your Thoughts, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Grape-headed
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Planet for Your Thoughts; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Uvans
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Planet for Your Thoughts; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Acting
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Planet for Your Thoughts; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Brains
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Planet for Your Thoughts; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.