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Monday, June 4, 2012

May Roundup

Here’s a roundup of all the books and such discussed last month that are available for your Kindle. (Mostly)

The Magic Catalog
The Magic Catalog - Great for downloading things into your kindle.
Project Gutenberg - The site that all the public domain books are originally from. They have many more that are not available in the Kindle store

Myth and Epic
The Odyssey - Many translations of a great Epic
The Iliad - The prequel to the Odyssey. The one that started it all.
Ovid - The Metamorphoses tales.
Tales from Ovid - The Ted Hughes translations are great but not available on Kindle!
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis.
The Aeneid by Virgil

Literature Challenge

The Man Who was Thursday, A Nightmare

Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham. My favorite.
The Talisman - Peter Straub and Stephen King. The first.

The Harvard Classics 

Download these to a computer and Unzip.
The Harvard Classics 1-19
The Harvard Classics 20-29
The Harvard Classics 30-51

Other sources mentioned
The Kindle Chronicles - Kindle Podcast
Calibre - eBook management software

New kindle
A guide for what to put on a new kindle



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Happy Reading.

2 comments:

  1. I know I don't read much but this is a great resource!

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  2. Thanks. This is made for you! It sorts out the great reads for those that don't have the time. You can also do a review on amazon.com for my blog!

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