Only knowledge lets you wield the pen effectively. The Spirits' Shelf: an open shelf with a posted standard. Any author who meets it belongs on it, and every book gets its own page. Teachers: $1,776 to the most effective lesson using the site, paid at school year end. The lesson kit is one file. [download socket: teacher lesson kit]

Mr. Paine's own pamphlets, given away as formatted, printable PDFs; the handsomely bound versions, or the electrical ones, are sold to keep the presses in ink. [cover thumbnails: The Annotated Common Sense, Common Decency, Common Sense NOW!] The Annotated Common Sense: free PDF, or bound from the shop. Common Decency: free PDF, or bound from the shop. Common Sense, NOW! Coming soon; the presses are hot. [line socket: Common Sense, Now. One passage Paine already wrote, chosen daily for today's news.]

Things you read and things you use both do the same job: arming the citizen with knowledge.