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Old 08-25-2011, 01:54 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by colinsky View Post
I'm at 72 now, with one discrepancy. You have "War and Peace", which I don't believe is available in a nook version. I instead have "Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway*Edited by Corinne Demas" which is marked in the catalog as a Barnes & Noble Classic, but doesn't match the design of the rest of the series.
No, you're right. War and Peace in my original list has a ticky mark indicating it's one of the not-yet-converted ones, which failed to transfer over when I did the cut-and-paste.

As for the Demas anthology, it really is a B&N Classic (and one of the newer e-released ones that I stuck several spaces after the rest as "Various Authors" and forgot to C&P). It just shows a different cover because for some reason B&N's listing is defaulting to grouping them under the old hardcover editions, but when you go direct to the "Nook book" edition page, it's got the new-style cover.

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey View Post
How many ebooks are in the B&N Classics?
I think we're up to 203 total right now, with 3 paper editions still MIA: Dante's Paradiso, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables.

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Originally Posted by carpetmojo View Post
Or are they fantastically formated and proofed etc.. versions - up to Harry's standards, for example ?
The proofing could use a little work (occasional scannos and wrong-way curly quotes), but the formatting is pretty good and nicely standardized across the line.

But it's the extras which really make the series, with intro and background and "derivative works [i.e. movies] inspired by" essays and contemporary/historical criticism (see what Plato had to say about Homer! thrill at what Arthur Conan Doyle thought about Dracula!) and further reading bibliographies.

Plus many of the titles have helpful explanatory footnotes for culture and customs of the setting and writing period which can be a big help for some of the more distant works (Pride and Prejudice has an especially nice set of double footnotes explaining a lot of Regency-era stuff you might not pick up from context alone).

Last edited by ATDrake; 08-25-2011 at 02:03 PM. Reason: ETA to formatting and extras.
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