I don’t normally applaud a large corporation for anything (let alone two large corporations working together), but I really gotta hand it to Barnes & Noble and Microsoft. Barnes and Noble’s site is offering 100 free ebooks as a promotion for MS Reader. Great stuff, too. All classics. Right now, I’m reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne in the precious tiny bit of spare time I have and I’m loving it.
These are the books I’ve always wanted to read, but never had the money to buy. Melville, London, Dickens, Machiavelli, even Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin. I’m in literary heaven!
I know how the SDMB admininstration feels about commercial links, but this is simply too cool not to share! Plus, I really can’t think of a better way to fight ignorance than massive amounts of great literature.
Get your ebook fixhere and get 'em while they last. It’s a limited-time offer.
Okay I’m starting to sound like a commercial here. I’ll shut up now.
Now I have to spend tonight downloading frigging BOOKS! I want THEM ALL!!! You’ve screwed up my evening, neutron star, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY!!! Right now I’m going through European Lit. The thing that is so nifty is that these books are small in size. The average eBook download (so far) has been about 500 K. So you could fit several “books” onto a floppy! Fabulous!
That’s cool. Too bad I have a hard time reading massive amounts of text on the computer, it’s too hard on my eyes. Does anyone have one of those pocket books, or whatever they are called made for reading e-books? Do they help?
Aren’t most of the works of “classic literature” now in the public domain (free of copyright as their copyrights expired due to old age)? If so, there’s not much profit to be made or lost in putting them out as eBooks of the net–just customer good will.
But it took me a year to get that! Reading short snippets, like on a message board is no problem, but reading great big hunks of text wears my eyes out. In fact, I usually can’t finish unusually long posts, because it’s too hard to read.
Unless those new portable e-book readers are really easier on the eyes, I don’t guess I’ll be downloading books. It’s a shame, too, because I love reading.
Well, I downloaded about 25 books (and will probably get a few more tonight ) and I downloaded and install MS Reader. It’s pretty nifty! Thanks neutron star!
Right now I’m going through European Lit. The thing that is so nifty is that these books are small in size. The average eBook download (so far) has been about 500 K. So you could fit several “books” onto a floppy! Fabulous!