Barnes & Noble is offering a free download of their eReader, which will give you access to 700,000 ebook titles – most seem to be on sale for $9.99.
If you download the eReader to either your Iphone or PC, B&N offers a bonus of six FREE ebooks: you will be happy to know of the titles offered, Austen authored two of them! ~ The Last of the Mohicans, Sense and Sensibility, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, and a handy Pocket Dictionary ~ this little push for the classics is much appreciated! [but alas! please do not undermine my need to actually TOUCH MY BOOKS!]
Click Here for the Barnes & Noble website to take advantage of this offer: select the download of your choice [Iphone / Ipod Touch, Blackberry, PC/MAC] on the right side of the screen … and happy reading!
Posted by Deb
Jane Austen in Vermont 
I don’t think I could give up touching books; however, I recently was given a Kindle and do like it. And now that I have it, I can download almost all the classics free. Just for the record, it’s not the same as a real book.
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Thanks Marcia for the reality-check on the Kindle – what would we ever do with book group if we didn’t have all our REAL books to pass around!
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If you’ve got the iPhone, you just need to get Stanza, the free application for books. Lots of titles to download free… yes including our dear Jane’s works. BTW, glad to see P & P being ranked #9 in the recent Newsweek Meta-list of Top 100 Books Ever Written!
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Hi Arti, thanks for this info! – I will be getting an iphone in the next month or so [our provider was bought out by AT&T and need to switch – I have been avoiding yet another technology change!] – there are so many ebooks out there, no reason to purchase ANY of them, especially if your local library has such access, but who can keep up! I just posted about this B&N news because I was thrilled to see the offer of P&P AND S&S – there is hope in the world! [and kudos to Newsweek as well…!]
Thanks for visiting Arti,
Deb
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