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jacey5) 3/3/11
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Ebook (via Amazon Kindle app for the iPod Touch)
This is it - I'm all caught up with my 2011 book logs now. You'll have noticed a Regency theme running through my recent reading, so after the last Georgette Heyer, which was pretty banal, I thought I should go back to where it all started.
Though knowing the story of Pride and Prejudice well enough from various TV and film adaptations I don't think I've actually attempted to read this since my school days, when I hated Jane Austen with a passion. I can't even remmber if I ever got through it (the one I had to read for school was Northanger Abbey, so maybe not P & P) Though I can't pretend to love it unreservedly, as so many of my friends do, there's a lot to recommend it and I enjoyed it immensely for what it is. It's too well known for any review I might add to cast any new light on it, so I'll spare you.
This was the first full length book that I've read on the iPod. Unlike the Kindle it has a backlit screen, which makes it perfect for me to read in bed at night. BB is disturbed by light, even relatively innocuous (to me) book-lights, so a small, lightweight backlit screen (as opposed to a real Kindle) is very useful.
I do wish that if you have a legitimate print copy of a book that you could buy the e-book format for a nominal price. I'd love to be able to read the print copy in the day time and read a chapter in bed at night on the iPod. Unfortunately with the Amazon price of ebooks being extortionate (in some cases more than the print book) I won't be abandoning print books any time soon.
Yay for Project Gutenberg. I've currently got Captain Blood loaded up for bedtime reading.
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Ebook (via Amazon Kindle app for the iPod Touch)
This is it - I'm all caught up with my 2011 book logs now. You'll have noticed a Regency theme running through my recent reading, so after the last Georgette Heyer, which was pretty banal, I thought I should go back to where it all started.
Though knowing the story of Pride and Prejudice well enough from various TV and film adaptations I don't think I've actually attempted to read this since my school days, when I hated Jane Austen with a passion. I can't even remmber if I ever got through it (the one I had to read for school was Northanger Abbey, so maybe not P & P) Though I can't pretend to love it unreservedly, as so many of my friends do, there's a lot to recommend it and I enjoyed it immensely for what it is. It's too well known for any review I might add to cast any new light on it, so I'll spare you.
This was the first full length book that I've read on the iPod. Unlike the Kindle it has a backlit screen, which makes it perfect for me to read in bed at night. BB is disturbed by light, even relatively innocuous (to me) book-lights, so a small, lightweight backlit screen (as opposed to a real Kindle) is very useful.
I do wish that if you have a legitimate print copy of a book that you could buy the e-book format for a nominal price. I'd love to be able to read the print copy in the day time and read a chapter in bed at night on the iPod. Unfortunately with the Amazon price of ebooks being extortionate (in some cases more than the print book) I won't be abandoning print books any time soon.
Yay for Project Gutenberg. I've currently got Captain Blood loaded up for bedtime reading.
