After reading the e-reader recommendations y'all gave me, I settled on the Kindle Paperwhite. A quick websearch showed that the nearby Best Buy had them in stock, so I trotted over there this morning. I searched for a while and couldn't find it; the service agent I asked found the display, but couldn't find the actual stock for what seemed a long time. Finally, he reappeared, Kindle in hand, and we completed the transaction.
I downloaded calibre and the add-ons recommended by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sraun, and set to work. It took quite a while before Kindle, calibre, and I all got in synch, but I now have a functioning e-reader. To stock it, I began with a visit to Project Gutenberg (no doubt the first of many). I picked up: the complete Palliser series by Anthony Trollope; Dickens' The Pickwick Papers and A Tale of Two Cities (the most important of his works that I don't already have in paper); Thackeray's Vanity Fair; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown; some Wells and Verne (The Island of Dr. Moreau, The First Men in the Moon, From the Earth to the Moon); Eliot's Silas Marner (the most important of hers that I don't already have); and, for a lark, Sir Walter Scott's Journal and Landor's Imaginary Conversations. Alas, none of Dorothy Sayers' work appears to have been taken up by Gutenberg (even though most of it is long out of print).
Next time, I'll probably go for some nonfiction - classic works of history and science, stuff like that. Things are looking good.
I downloaded calibre and the add-ons recommended by
sraun, and set to work. It took quite a while before Kindle, calibre, and I all got in synch, but I now have a functioning e-reader. To stock it, I began with a visit to Project Gutenberg (no doubt the first of many). I picked up: the complete Palliser series by Anthony Trollope; Dickens' The Pickwick Papers and A Tale of Two Cities (the most important of his works that I don't already have in paper); Thackeray's Vanity Fair; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown; some Wells and Verne (The Island of Dr. Moreau, The First Men in the Moon, From the Earth to the Moon); Eliot's Silas Marner (the most important of hers that I don't already have); and, for a lark, Sir Walter Scott's Journal and Landor's Imaginary Conversations. Alas, none of Dorothy Sayers' work appears to have been taken up by Gutenberg (even though most of it is long out of print).Next time, I'll probably go for some nonfiction - classic works of history and science, stuff like that. Things are looking good.
