Police Your Planet
Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey is available here as the complete text, split into 735 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #20212.
Course Syllabus
This syllabus gives direct access to every published chapter and its complete sequence of five-line English readings.
Police Your Planet
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- Chapter I Chapter 1
- Chapter II Chapter 2
- Chapter III Chapter 3
- Chapter IV Chapter 4
- Chapter V Chapter 5
- Chapter VI Chapter 6
- Chapter VII Chapter 7
- Chapter VIII Chapter 8
- Chapter IX Chapter 9
- Chapter X Chapter 10
- Chapter XI Chapter 11
- Chapter XII Chapter 12
- Chapter XIII Chapter 13
- Chapter XIV Chapter 14
- Chapter XV Chapter 15
- Chapter XVI Chapter 16
This edition of Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #20212, divided into 16 chapters and 735 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, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.
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The complete text of Police Your Planet is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #20212 and divided into 735 sections.
This page carries the whole of Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #20212, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 3673 sentences across 16 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 Police Your Planet divided for reading?
Police Your Planet is presented in 16 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Police Your Planet as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 735 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 16 chapters follow the divisions of the source edition, and each section carries a contextual illustration drawn from the passage it accompanies rather than a stock image.
Can I hear Police Your Planet read aloud?
Yes. Every sentence and every individual word of Police Your Planet can be played aloud, and each word shows its dictionary entry.
Every sentence of Police Your Planet 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 Police Your Planet
Common questions about reading Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Is this the complete text of Police Your Planet?
Yes. All 3673 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #20212 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Police Your Planet is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #20212, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Police Your Planet take to read?
About 306 minutes of reading across 735 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read Police Your Planet section by section
How to work through Police Your Planet section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Open a chapter
Choose one of the 16 chapters of Police Your Planet 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
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Vocabulary met early in Police Your Planet
Words and structures a reader meets early in Police Your Planet, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Exactly
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Police Your Planet; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Later
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Police Your Planet; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Bruce
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Police Your Planet; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Gordon
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Police Your Planet; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.