Picked this up for $3 a few weeks ago. Nearly 5000 pages of everything Vern published. I had read 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas and Journey to the Center of the Earth when I was in grade school, but this is the first time I've gotten deep into his work as an adult.
It's amazing how forward thinking he was on certain aspects of science, and how far off on basic earth science the cutting edge of the late 1800's turned out to be. I think what strikes me most about his writing is that the majority of it is nearly a travelogue in it's attention to detail of foreign travels. When he takes great measures to describe the trip across India and the American west in Around the World in 80 Days, you realize that the vast majority of people of the time had never been more than a few miles from their own homes. India, China, and the American west may as well have been Mars to most of his readers.
If your a science fiction fan at all and haven't read much Vern, this is highly recommended. I'm going to chew through the entire thing over the summer.
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Good call. I just looked around and they have the same for Kindle that I purchased.
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That's cool, $3 is insane. I've actually only read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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Actually, poking around amazon, a lot of his stuff is free.
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http://jameswharris.wordpress.com/2010/ ... -and-nook/The original Classics of Science Fiction list was pulled from a database of SF titles that had been recommended from 28 different sources. The final list were all books that had been on at least 7 of the recommended lists. What I wanted to know is how well these books are represented in ebook and audiobook editions.
Of the 193 titles, 143 can still be bought as old fashion books. 81 can be listened to as audio books, 69 read on the Kindle and 64 on the Nook. So a little less than half are available as audio books, and about a third as ebooks. That doesn’t sound too bad.
However, if you use just a Kindle for reading, two thirds are not available, so that does feel bad. Or if you’re an audiobook fanatic, a little more than half are unavailable.
35 books were not available from any source and 35 books were available from all four sources. I made the all sources blue, and the no sources red. Some of the red books might be available from other sources like print on demand, for ebook readers other than Kindle or Nook, or even on the web as public domain.
PDF version of findings:
http://classics.jameswallaceharris.com/ ... d_Nook.pdf
The excel version of the list is attached. The stuff 100 years or older is often in public domain and free for e-readers. I've been (re)reading a lot of this stuff lately on my phone.
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