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Originally Posted by zsmomma
And while books can be found on many sites, they aren't children's books. I might wait and see what books Borders will have in it's new ebook store. However, if Borders has the same books as Kobo (lists a mere 500 children books), unfortunately, we'll have to go w/ the "top 2".
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That depends on what you consider "children's books". If you mean commercially produced series books published in the past few years, you're probably right. If you would consider older books -- including commercially produced series books published in the early 1900s -- then you'll be practically swimming in them.
I have on my 505, right now ... lemme count ... 329 books in the early 20th century boys' series that I collect (an ebook collection which has, thankfully, far outstripped my pbook collection, to the great relief of my already overloaded bookshelves). I also have 146 books by Horatio Alger and similar writers, 30 tagged "Boys' Adventure", 75 books and stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 102 by Robert E. Howard, 11 of John Blaine's "Rick Brant" adventures ... you get the picture. There's Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson, H. P. Lovecraft and H. Beam Piper. There's Sherlock Holmes and Ashton-Kirk, Robin Hood and Tom Swift, the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel. And they're all good stuff. (I'd have had more sleep last night if I hadn't been finishing "Ashton-Kirk Investigator")
For people who think a child should never be faced with an unfamiliar word or concept, and should be limited to what little he already knows, yeah, those might not be the books they'd want their kids to read. But if not, there are thousands of books -- all both
gratis and
libre -- waiting for them. There's a lot to be said for the books written for the kids who grew up to be our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents ... and, thanks to my discovery of a treasure trove of old books in my uncle's trunk, one grew up to be me.