Thread: Strategies for reading the classics?
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Old 06-08-2011, 03:08 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post

By the way, I recommend Barnes & Noble's B&N Classics Editions of annotated texts with introductions and footnotes and mini-essays by scholarly types. They're very nicely done and well worth taking a look at.

Just over a dozen of them are permanently available free: Pride & Prejudice, Dracula, and Little Women are available DRM-free when you sign up an account at their website and you don't need to give them personal info.

And you can get the extra 12 when you download the NookStudy app from their website, and B&N seem to have recently removed certain restrictions on non-US customers getting some of the free books (but you'll still need a credit card for their website for the DRM-scheme).

The freebie selection includes a mix of poetry, novels, and prose non-fiction that spans millenia (Beowulf and Canterbury Tales are there, as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald) and they've got a copy of Plato's Republic that you might find an easier read (or at least derive value from the essay that goes along with it).

If it turns out you like the series, they normally only cost $1.99 and B&N sometimes give them away free as promo during holidays and such, which is how I acquired over 100 of the things to slowly read my way through.

Hope this helps.
Are their free books all DRM free? Would be nice to be able to convert them to read on Kindle if I find one that I want there that isn't here at MR.
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