The Complete Sherlock Holmes

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Patrick, I love you mate. And I'm with you by the way. Kindle is changing the way I read. I'm not sure if I like it or not - I'm jumping around a lot more, because I don't have to worry about finishing a book to take off the large stack of books I'm traveling with. So I'm reading a little history, a little philosophy, a little fiction, and so on. Anyways, while we're on the topic, may I recommend Gutenberg.org if you haven't already thoroughly perused it? Here's a few you might like. Their top 100: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/731 Japanese literature including Genji Monogatari: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19264 Complete Sherlock Holmes: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661 On War: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1946 All of Shakespeare: http…

Remember that book costs slide downward over time. I got me the complete Sherlock Holmes for a dollar, and a bit of Austen and Dickens for free. I think Neuromancer was about seven dollars, too. So it's not a flat price eating away at you.

… appears as beautiful formatted text, like magic. Almost like the PDF format is designed to be flexible enough to adjust to other mediums. First off, never underestimate the public domain. The funniest and greatest books ever written are all public domain. Hell, it's worth it to get the complete Shakespeare in accessible format alone. Meanwhile, most .lit sales come with no DRM whatsoever. Opening my Kindle right now, the following files are on the front page: A Confederacy of Dunces, one of the funniest books ever written; My Man Jeeves, ditto; Infinite Jest, one of the great novels of the 90s; The Woman Who Rides Like A Man, a young adult novel from an author I'm nostalgic for; Ulysses, the greatest novel of all time; 2BRO2B, by Vonnegut; the complete Shakespeare; Neuromancer, The Bible, and It's Not News, It's Fark. Over half of those …

… Shakespeare. And it's much easier to have The Complete Shakespeare on a Kindle than it is to have it in a backpack. I also have The Complete Asimov, and I'm considering The Complete Sherlock Holmes. The Kindle got me into reading P. G. Wodehouse for the first time, because his stuff was free on Gutenberg. I managed to find a complete archive of Diana Wynne Jones stories: they're for teens rather than adults, but they're still very well-written and they're childhood favorites and I like that I can find them and read them when I couldn't purchase half of them physically on Amazon. When I got to a meet-up an hour early, I had my Kindle, and I could go and search for half a dozen novels and read excerpts from each one. It's like window shopping but you can do it anywhere. Not to mention the free wireless Internet I get everywhere, the NowNow…