Turb0! Posted May 15, 2010 Report Share Posted May 15, 2010 So I just got my new Kindle 2 in the mail today and, I have to say, it comes highly recommended for anyone interested in amassing a decent collection of classical works for little to no cost. I originally didn't pay this device much heed but after finding out that any books published before 1923 were free to download I changed my mind. Thus far these are some of the books I have come by, most of which were free and a few of which cost only 0.99 cents, U.S. History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus The Apologia, Florida, and The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius The Acharnians, Peace, The Birds, The Frogs, and Lysistrata by Aristophanes Politics, and Ethics by Aristotle Julius Caesar's Gallic and Civil War Commentaries Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by A.H. Beesley The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Cato the Elder's Treatise on Roman Farm Management The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus The Roman and The Tueton by Charles Kingsley Letters, Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, History of Famous Orators, Scipio's Dream, and Orations by Cicero Public Orations of Demosthenes Cassius Dio's History of Rome Two Orations of Julian the Apostate The Golden Sayings of Epictetus The Bacchae, Hippolytus, and The Trojan Women by Euripedes Letters of Constantine the Great The Attic Nights by Aulus Gellius Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Histories by Herodotus The Illiad, and The Odyssey by Homer The Odes, Carmen Saeculare, The Satires, and Epistles by Horace Against Apion, Antiquities of the Jews, and Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades by Flavius Josephus Livy's History of Rome Pharsalia by Lucan On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus The Art of Love, and Metamorphoses by Ovid The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter The Republic, Meno, Cratylus, Timaeus, Charmides, Euthyphro, Apology, Phaedrus, and Parmenides by Plato Aulularia by Titus Maccius Plautus Letters of Pliny the Younger Plutarch's Lives The Secret History of the Court of Justinian by Procopius The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius The Conspiracy of Catiline, and The Jugurthine War by Sallust Apocolocyntosis by Seneca Tacitus' Histories History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The Aenid by Vigil Agesilaus by Xenophon I've uploaded more than that, but the fact that most of them were free more than makes up for the $250 in my mind. And being able to carry them all around in a thin, little, container is pretty nifty! Highly recommended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion-Macro Posted May 16, 2010 Report Share Posted May 16, 2010 Interesting, I shall check this out when a get a free moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turb0! Posted May 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 (edited) Interesting, I shall check this out when a get a free moment. It seems like a worthwhile buy. I've been playing around with it for the past few days and found out that it also works well as a research tool. When looking through books it allows you to bookmark certain pages for quick access, highlight text, and make notations on the side while you read which also get saved. The system they use in place of page numbers is a bit hard to get used to but the benefits seem to far outweigh the negatives. Also, if you don't want to buy the actual device, you can download the program to your PC for free from Amazon and proceed to collect free classics to your heart's content for no cost whatsoever. Edited May 18, 2010 by Turb0! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 Also, if you don't want to buy the actual device, you can download the program to your PC for free from Amazon and proceed to collect free classics to your heart's content for no cost whatsoever. Excellent, thank you. Free is always good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turb0! Posted May 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 Excellent, thank you. Free is always good! No problemo! The language is a bit stuffy on some of the free books, since most are 19th or 18th century publications, and usually the free ones will lack an interactive table of contents. On the plus side however, the electronic version of these classic publications have taken out that annoying thing where they would use an 'f' in place of an 's.' I could never stand that because it always made the narration have a lisp in my head! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion-Macro Posted May 22, 2010 Report Share Posted May 22, 2010 So I can get things free if I wish? Because I am quite sort of money at this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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