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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
An interesting question. I have to think: honestly how many people here actually do like reading the "classics" or rather more accurately the copyright free texts? It seems to me that the primary reason people talk about digital readers and "classics" is because those are free books. If there were not free, probably more than 50% of digital reader users would not bother with them.
As a scholar in the social sciences myself, I admit to not being attracted to the so-called classics literature and much prefer to read contemporary texts (say from the 20th and 21st century).
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I really don't care when a book was written, so long as I find it interesting, enjoyable or otherwise worthwhile to read. So yes, as well as modern authors such as Neal Stephenson and Thomas Pynchon I also like Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. I liked them before they were available for free on the web, too...