Not such an "early-adopter" on this one - and I took the last-generation technology because it was on sale (the new one is much more expensive, but gorgeously bigger, too) - but my Kindle was just delivered today. Immediately I downloaded everything in the "Kindle Classics Library" - The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Prince, Concerning Christian Liberty, The Origin of Species, The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales, The Idiot, Aesop's Fables, The Tempest, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Art of War, The Republic, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Moby Dick, Anna Karenina, and so forth and so on. 51 titles in all, smoothly downloaded behind the scenes by "Kindle Whispernet." Apparently it will read to me, too, if I ask it nicely.
Yes, it's all so very quiet and so very classic. And at the total cost for all those titles of....$0.00, not a bad deal, either. Really, I do like paper and I like the heft of real books, and all the other usual objections - but this is pretty good. I can read any of the stuff above any time, without having to go to the library (the only other way to get a total cost like that one) and/or wait till somebody brings the book back, and then lug it around and renew it dozens of times and then have to return it anyway because I didn't quite finish it.
I've never read some of that stuff - and the rest I've forgotten. So I have 51 books in there now, leaving me room for 1450 more. I'm trying to fall out of love at the moment, and I badly need something to do. The World's Classic Literature seems to me to be a good bet. (I'm willing to be hooked up, too, if anybody knows anybody; I'm desperate now - although I'm afraid I'm still a little particular. I like the intelligent, passionate, and compassionate type; I like depth and emotional maturity. I like long walks on the beach, too, etc. Let me know.)
(I shouldn't complain, of course. Falling in love at my age was a completely unexpected and undeserved gift, and glorious for awhile. Those days are over now, though, and it's going to be painful for awhile, I can tell....)
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When you've finished your current haul, know that Project Gutenberg books read pretty well on the Kindle if you are willing to be tolerant about the awkward formatting.I ended up reading a couple of the William Hale White ("Mark Rutherford") books mentioned on Mockingbird.
I hate trying to fall out of love myself.
Thanks, Caelius. You're the best; you always understand.
It's all so ridiculous! Here's some perfectly wonderful emotion that I must strangle at its root with my own hands - and for what? What's the point of the whole thing?
It's such a waste....
And not only that! I'm really good at being in love; I go all the way and don't hold anything back when I do. They are missing something really wonderful!
And it's been so long! I'm really broken-hearted.
(But it is kind of wonderful to have fallen, as I say - so there's that, too. I really would like some sweet kisses and pillow talk around about now - and actually I'd completely settle for simply some kind and loving affection. I'm not even talking about sex here! Well, not yet, anyway....)
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