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Originally Posted by Kris777
I received the e-mail from Pavel (Ectaco support) that jetBook-Lite comes preloaded with these books:
Preloaded eBooks include U.S. Department of Education suggested Reading List:
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac
William Shakespeare, As you Like it
Richard II
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Hamlet
Moliere, Tartuffe OR The Hypocrite
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
George Eliot, Silas Marner
. . .
Homer, The Odyssey
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway(1925)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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Careful you'll start a discussion of the merits of each book.

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens instead of David Copperfield or Nicholas Nickleby?
I agree that e-books are a natural in education for literature, but I will be a long time and a lot better rendering of equations and formulas before e-books will make inroads into other subjects.