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.

Magic Catalog

Kindle Literature is a blog devoted to great works of literature available for Kindle and other eReader platforms.

Where to start? http://freekindlebooks.org/MagicCatalog/magiccatalog.html Download the ebook to your Kindle or other eReading device. 

This ebook links to the millions of free books available on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ and is searchable. Say you want to read a certain play by Shakespeare. Search your Kindle with this ebook on it and it will give you a location. Go to the location and you have a page with links to not only this play but many other books and plays. 

Click the one you want and the browser will open and prompt you to download the file. Click OK and wait a few seconds for the download to finish. The play/novel/book will appear on your home screen. Open it and start reading. These steps are for the e-ink versions of Kindle. The Kindle Fire will take some figuring out on my part. You can always search http://www.gutenberg.org/ and download directly from there.

You can also read thousands of free ebooks available on the Kindle store. The store is easier to access from a computer but is available from any Kindle device. Kindles with e-ink displays are not the best for browsing websites.

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