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Thread ID: 139229	2015-03-30 05:47:00	Can this price be right?	Greg (193)	PC World Chat

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1397637	2015-03-30 05:47:00	I'm keen to buy a Kindle Paperwhite gadget, and my first ebooks wiil be The Complete Works of Shakespeare, and same for Charles Dickens. So I look at Amazon's price of $US1.61, but it seems ludicrously cheap. Am I missing something? www.amazon.com	Greg (193)
1397638	2015-03-30 05:49:00	Have a look on Gutenberg. Probably free there Here www.gutenberg.org Ken	kenj (9738)
1397639	2015-03-30 06:27:00	From Kenj's Link--- Click on the Kindle edition, save - Import to e reader = Free Kindle version is 9.1 MB and opens fine in Calibre. 6328	wainuitech (129)
1397640	2015-03-30 06:38:00	I'm keen to buy a Kindle Paperwhite gadget, and my first ebooks wiil be The Complete Works of Shakespeare, and same for Charles Dickens. So I look at Amazon's price of $US1.61, but it seems ludicrously cheap. Am I missing something? www.amazon.com I thought people who bought "The Complete Works of XXXX" (where XXXX = Shakespeare, Dickens, Dan Brown, et al) only did so for the sangfroid satisfaction their wannabe erudite owner must experience when viewing the metres upon metres of matching spines of such volumes ostentatiously displayed and resting undisturbed (and unread) in their bookcases. :devil	WalOne (4202)
1397641	2015-03-30 09:57:00	A lot of old literature is public domain now so all you are actually paying is handling or distribution fees or whatever which is why it's so cheap or if you go the route suggested, free. There's a lot very cheap books that are current also. I have a paperwhite I bought to replace my first gen kindle and can thoroughly recommend it. I could not personally wade my way through Shakespeare though.	dugimodo (138)
1397642	2015-03-30 15:44:00	Thanks folks. Main reason I want the Kindle is cos I have a sleeping problem, and in the past I could nod off by reading something. Problem was though, that either dropping the book out of my hands or the light being left on would disrupt the process. Also I've always wanted to read both those authors.	Greg (193)
1397643	2015-04-01 04:18:00	... erudite owner must experience when viewing the metres upon metres of matching spines of such volumes ostentatiously displayed and resting undisturbed (and unread) in their bookcases. :devil Computer geeks are not much different. I was asked by the wife of a geek friend who died suddenly to help clean out the house. In the livingroom there were shelves of 5.25" computer discs, no doubt kept because they might be useful some day (operating systems, Fortran compilers, that sort of stuff) I estimated that 10m of shelf space x 2mm per disc x 720 kB per disc = less than 4 GB which you can now get on a memory stick for $4	BBCmicro (15761)
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