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Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive

Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive by Victor Appleton is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 645 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive by Victor Appleton. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1364.

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Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive

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This edition of Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive by Victor Appleton carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #1364, divided into 25 chapters and 645 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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Rather than presenting Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 645 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 25 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.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #1364, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 268 minutes of reading across 645 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Electric: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Locomotive: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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