Wow. network support works for me! I successfully downloaded Jane Austen's Persuasion from feedbooks.com.

Some notes:

--For some reason I had to open an xterm and become root and run apt-get upgrade before I could find the new version of FBreader.

--I set my copy of FBReader so that it opens in library view. From there, it's hard at first to figure out how to search the net for a book. You have to open a specific book before you see the globe, which is what you click on to search the net.

--Feedbooks.com was checked in my Preferences so I could access it. It's not quite as good as Project Gutenberg, I think, but it still gives you a lifetime and more of free reading.Another site, manybooks.net, is also available. As I recall, it also gives lots of free reading. I didn't try it yet today.

--With my usual luck, when I went to download Persuasion, I had two identical choices for the same book (see attached screenshot). I picked the second one and it turned out to be Persuasion in French, not what I had in mind. I easily deleted it and downloaded the first one, which was the English version.

This is great!