12 New B&N Classic eBooks available - 8/20

BookishMom · 08-20-2010, 12:03 AM

Hi everyone,

12 more free B&N classics are now available (on 8/20). This week's featured collection is "Women Who Inspired Us".

You can download them at: http://www.bn.com/freelibrary

Have fun!

ATDrake · 08-20-2010, 01:00 AM

Thanks for the reminder!

So far, between this and the 4th of July "All-American" and the NookStudy Starter Kit promos, we're up to 87 offered thus far, and we've gotten nice annotated editions of the complete available B&N works of Jane Austen, all three Brontë sisters, D. H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, and 8 other authors with at least two books each.

And they've put more of their classics into e-book form. There were only about 149 when the promo started, but now they're up to 183. 16 more to go, and they'll have the entire set digitized. Too bad they don't seem to be producing any new titles in the series.

With 3 weeks with left to go, and only a possible 15 repeats from previous promotions remaining, we should get at least 21 new titles for a minimum total of 108.

Hopefully they've got some nifty themes for the next few sets, and are planning future B&N Classics promos for stuff like Hallowe'en and Banned Books Week and Black History Month and so forth.

aagstn · 08-20-2010, 09:41 AM

Thanks again for the reminder. Just read through a lot of the Poe one and love the way B&N does these classics.

BookishMom · 08-20-2010, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aagstn

Thanks again for the reminder. Just read through a lot of the Poe one and love the way B&N does these classics.

You're welcome.

I love the way they do them, too. Nice formatting and extra info and footnotes.

Seabound · 08-20-2010, 06:19 PM

Thank you for the remindier, BookishMom.

Can someone tell me what last week's freebies were? I'm not sure if I was able to download them.

texasnightowl · 08-20-2010, 09:51 PM

Based on my "Date" entries in Calibre, I think these were last week's freebies:

Hugo, Victor Les Miserables (abridged)
Gaskell, Elizabeth The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Crane, Stephen Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York
Flaubert, Gustave Sentimental Education
Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side of Paradise
James, Henry The Wings of the Dove
Bronte, Anne Agnes Grey
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Beautiful and Damned
Dickinson, Emily The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome & Selected Stories

BookishMom · 08-20-2010, 10:42 PM

Here's a list that luvmy4brats has posted (all credit goes to her):

Week 1 (7/16):
Children's Classics
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Call of the Wild & White Fang
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Little Women
Peter Pan
Secret Garden
Tarzan of the Apes
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Treasure Island
Wind in the Willows

Week 2 (7/23):
12 Great Books That Inspired 12 Great Movies
beowulf
Cyrano de Bergerac
Emma
Great Expectations
Ivanhoe
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Last of the Mohicans
Phantom of the Opera
The Three Musketeers
War of the Worlds
Sense and Sensibility

Week 3 (7/30):
12 Enduring Stories of Romance and Passion
Age of Innocence
Anna Karenina
Jane Eyre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Mansfield Park
My Antonia
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Room with a View
Wives and Daughters
Wuthering Heights

Week 4 (8/6):
Books that were Banned
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Candide - Voltaire
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence

Week 5 (8/13)
Tearjerkers
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York
Sentimental Education
Sister Carrie
Wings of the Dove
Agnes Grey
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Beautiful and Damned
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Les Miserables (abridged)
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
This Side of Paradise
Ethan Frome & Selected Stories

Week 6 (8/20):
Women Who Inspired Us
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James
Nana by Emile Zola
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Seabound · 08-20-2010, 11:58 PM

Thanks everyone. I missed the Tearjerkers (week 5). Aaargh.

texasnightowl · 08-21-2010, 01:26 AM

So, I just imported this week's books into Calibre...Bleak House is 13mb! I think that is one of the overall largest ebook files I have. Period! I haven't opened it yet, but 13mb! Most of my other epub files hover between 0.5 and 1 mb!

ATDrake · 08-21-2010, 01:53 AM

Bleak House is also illustrated (by "Phiz" from the serialized version), as is Vanity Fair (author's own sketches taking it to 22 mb). Interestingly enough, the .pdb versions weigh in at 4 and 8 mb respectively. Though maybe .pdb has a lower file/pixel-size limit for graphics.

08-20-2010, 12:03 AM	#1
BookishMom Connoisseur Posts: 66 Karma: 1038 Join Date: May 2009 Device: K1, K2, and iPad. :)	12 New B&N Classic eBooks available - 8/20 Hi everyone, 12 more free B&N classics are now available (on 8/20). This week's featured collection is "Women Who Inspired Us". You can download them at: http://www.bn.com/freelibrary Have fun!

08-20-2010, 01:00 AM	#2
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Thanks for the reminder! So far, between this and the 4th of July "All-American" and the NookStudy Starter Kit promos, we're up to 87 offered thus far, and we've gotten nice annotated editions of the complete available B&N works of Jane Austen, all three Brontë sisters, D. H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, and 8 other authors with at least two books each. And they've put more of their classics into e-book form. There were only about 149 when the promo started, but now they're up to 183. 16 more to go, and they'll have the entire set digitized. Too bad they don't seem to be producing any new titles in the series. With 3 weeks with left to go, and only a possible 15 repeats from previous promotions remaining, we should get at least 21 new titles for a minimum total of 108. Hopefully they've got some nifty themes for the next few sets, and are planning future B&N Classics promos for stuff like Hallowe'en and Banned Books Week and Black History Month and so forth. Last edited by ATDrake; 08-20-2010 at 03:06 PM. Reason: Oops, got some numbers wrong. Also remove some expired info.

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08-20-2010, 09:41 AM	#3
aagstn Evangelist Posts: 422 Karma: 1004351 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 3, iPad mini 2	Thanks again for the reminder. Just read through a lot of the Poe one and love the way B&N does these classics.

08-20-2010, 06:19 PM	#5
Seabound Steerage Class Posts: 711 Karma: 505995 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Pacific Northwest, USA Device: Won't fit here anymore, see sig for a list of liseuses.	Thank you for the remindier, BookishMom. Can someone tell me what last week's freebies were? I'm not sure if I was able to download them.

08-20-2010, 09:51 PM	#6
texasnightowl Guru Posts: 779 Karma: 2873645 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas Device: PW5, Oasis 3, K4B(NT), K3/KK	Based on my "Date" entries in Calibre, I think these were last week's freebies: Hugo, Victor Les Miserables (abridged) Gaskell, Elizabeth The Life of Charlotte Bronte Crane, Stephen Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York Flaubert, Gustave Sentimental Education Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side of Paradise James, Henry The Wings of the Dove Bronte, Anne Agnes Grey Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Beautiful and Damned Dickinson, Emily The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome & Selected Stories

08-20-2010, 10:42 PM	#7
BookishMom Connoisseur Posts: 66 Karma: 1038 Join Date: May 2009 Device: K1, K2, and iPad. :)	Here's a list that luvmy4brats has posted (all credit goes to her): Week 1 (7/16): Children's Classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Call of the Wild & White Fang Grimm's Fairy Tales Little Women Peter Pan Secret Garden Tarzan of the Apes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Treasure Island Wind in the Willows Week 2 (7/23): 12 Great Books That Inspired 12 Great Movies beowulf Cyrano de Bergerac Emma Great Expectations Ivanhoe Pygmalion and Three Other Plays The Hunchback of Notre Dame Last of the Mohicans Phantom of the Opera The Three Musketeers War of the Worlds Sense and Sensibility Week 3 (7/30): 12 Enduring Stories of Romance and Passion Age of Innocence Anna Karenina Jane Eyre Les Liaisons Dangereuses Mansfield Park My Antonia Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Room with a View Wives and Daughters Wuthering Heights Week 4 (8/6): Books that were Banned Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis Candide - Voltaire Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence Jungle - Upton Sinclair Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence Week 5 (8/13) Tearjerkers Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York Sentimental Education Sister Carrie Wings of the Dove Agnes Grey The Life of Charlotte Bronte Beautiful and Damned Tess of the d'Urbervilles Les Miserables (abridged) Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson This Side of Paradise Ethan Frome & Selected Stories Week 6 (8/20): Women Who Inspired Us Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Villette by Charlotte Bronte Main Street by Sinclair Lewis Night and Day by Virginia Woolf O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James Nana by Emile Zola Bleak House by Charles Dickens

08-20-2010, 11:58 PM	#8
Seabound Steerage Class Posts: 711 Karma: 505995 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Pacific Northwest, USA Device: Won't fit here anymore, see sig for a list of liseuses.	Thanks everyone. I missed the Tearjerkers (week 5). Aaargh.

08-21-2010, 01:26 AM	#9
texasnightowl Guru Posts: 779 Karma: 2873645 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas Device: PW5, Oasis 3, K4B(NT), K3/KK	So, I just imported this week's books into Calibre...Bleak House is 13mb! I think that is one of the overall largest ebook files I have. Period! I haven't opened it yet, but 13mb! Most of my other epub files hover between 0.5 and 1 mb!

08-21-2010, 01:53 AM	#10
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bleak House is also illustrated (by "Phiz" from the serialized version), as is Vanity Fair (author's own sketches taking it to 22 mb). Interestingly enough, the .pdb versions weigh in at 4 and 8 mb respectively. Though maybe .pdb has a lower file/pixel-size limit for graphics.

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