We ordered our Color Nook. Give me suggestions for a good book, please!

[WillParkinson]

And, yeah, it has to be available on Nook. I wanted to read Harry Potter and then found out Ms. Rowling had not given rights to have it done in digital format. Hope she changes her mind.

[Supply Side Jesus]

1. what do you think of it?

i'm considering getting one, they look great.

[WillParkinson]

5. The color one isn't released yet...

I'm looking forward to it, though. Even Paul is interested in seeing and using it.

[some guy]

2. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

available and should be free.

The nice thing about e-readers (imo) is the large selection of free books. :)

[WillParkinson]

8. Free E-Books

That's what Paul wants. He's got a large list of old-timey books (caring for the farm type stuff) that he wants to be able to collect and read.

[bluedigger]

3. All my books are black & white.

:shrug:

[WillParkinson]

6. I'm hoping to have some cookbooks on it...

The color pictures will help me when it comes time to figure out why mine never looks as good as theirs.

[some guy]

4. Since it's color,

maybe a magazine?

:shrug:

Calvin & Hobbes books - I don't know if they're available :D

[WillParkinson]

7. Oh, I'd LOVE the Calvin and Hobbes collection!

Used to be one of my favorite strips.

[some guy]

23. so would I.

:D

[Kablooie]

9. The Millenium Trilogy. The girl who... series.

Very entertaining.

[Lucian]

10. Really? Why?

Might as well buy a tablet computer. The color nook only lasts eight hours on a single charge.

But...to each his/her own, I guess.

[WillParkinson]

12. 8 hours...

I plan on taking it to work with me so portability is a plus. Since I will be reading at work 8 hours is plenty. My 'reading area' (our office) is rather low light, too, so the backlighting will help in that respect.

[Kablooie]

11. The Millenium Trilogy. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.

You have to read them in order:


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl who Played with Fire

The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest.


Very entertaining.


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and OOPS. I posted an unfinished version of this post earlier without realizing it.
Sorry bout that.

[WillParkinson]

13. Can you tell me a bit about why you liked them?

I was actually looking at the dust jacket and thought about them. I'd like an informed opinion, if you don't mind.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. Well, I liked them, because...

First of all, the title character, Lisbeth Salander, is one of the great characters of literature. Action literature, anyway. As the books go on, more of her layers unfold, questions are answered even as more are asked, and she becomes more amazing as she becomes yet more mysterious. I don't know what depths of fantasy Larssen was delving when he dreamed her up, but I would hope he wasn't thinking of his mother.

The other characters aren't too shabby, either, although most of them are props for Lisbeth. Or villains.

The plots move-- Larssen is great at weaving the threads and setting up cliffhangers. These are can't-put-down books.

Great literature? Nah. No deep levels of meaning or high-falutin' allegories here unless you really stretch, but a great beach read. Like those Ludlum thrillers, but a little lighter touch.

(Or by the fireplace this time of year.)

[Kablooie]

20. Lisbeth Salander

She's one of my favorite characters of all time.
She's a strange, antisocial, reclusive, angry punk girl. She's interesting and oddly likable though very prickly.
Then the stories unfold to reveal in intense detail who she really is and how she got that way.

The stories are action mysteries. Kind of Agatha Christie with some wild action scenes,
There are many moments where you feel the satisfaction of overcoming unbelievable odds.

And then they are threaded with with Salander and how she is mysteriously more integrally
involved in the plots than you had ever imagined.

The first book is a story on it's own but the other two are one long story broken into two books.

I had a hard time stopping once the stories started rolling.


P.S.
The author died before they were published. He had outlines for many more books about these characters but
all we will ever see are these three. Luckily all the main questions are answered. There are a few tantalizing
details that were left hanging though and we will never know where they would have taken us.

[WillParkinson]

27. Thank you to you and TB!

Looks like I have something to start with.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. I just got Mark Twain's Autobiography for my uncolor Nook...

and it's going to take forever to read. Got a collection of Twain's works, too, most of which were read years ago, but it was cheap.

I'm about to get the Oz books (99 cents for all 15) but looking through the online catalogue I see lots of downloads but don't know which ones have the original artwork. I suspect it might take a while to get it together for the color Nook. (Yes, I know I can save the buck and get all the Oz books for free, but then I have download each one individually, often chapter by chapter, reformat them and put the in the Nook. It's worth the buck to just click and watch them all pop up in the Nook seconds later.)

[retread]

16. Delete hiccup.

[retread]

17. Does your local library rent ebooks in the epub format? Go to their web site and check.

Join the Philadelphia Free Library(http://www.freelibrary.org/).

You should get these for your pc.
Adobe Digital Editions(http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/). If your library rents epubs they should have this on their web site.

Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/). Absolutely indispensable example of free software. Actively maintained by the author. Read the how-to's before using.

Join the Nook discussion groups.
Also here is my favorite source of info: (http://www.mobileread.com/). There are forums on different types of ereaders, different formats, and forums on Calibre and Sigil, authors of both programs regularly answer questions here.

[Dr Morbius]

18. Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville, 1830-1835. Unless you've read it, in which case I recommend:

Collected Papers, John Rawls. Much easier to get through than his more massive works, A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, but containing much the same thoughts.

[applegrove]

19. "Life of Pi" by Martel. "A fine balance" by Rohinton Mistry. "fall on your knees" by Anne Marie

MacDonald. The best Canadian novels in the last decade IMHO.

[gratuitous]

21. If you're into murder mysteries, anything by John Dickson Carr

Specialized in "locked room" mysteries, or where the set-up for the murder was that no one could have possibly committed the crime, but the victim is undeniably dead. A paragraph from Hag's Nook:

"Don't mind him," he said, wheezing contemptuously. "He's a stickler for things. Worst of all, the man's a mathemetician. Pah! A mathematician," repeated Dr. Fell, glaring at his salad as though he expected to find a binomial theorem lurking in the lettuce. "He oughtn't to talk."

[Tikki]

22. Model Home by Eric Puchner....

read more here...It is a NOOKbook...

http://www.ericpuchner.com



Tikki

[WillParkinson]

25. The synopsis sounds interesting!

Thank you for the suggestion.

[Demoiselle]

24. And for a while I thought this post was about interior decorating.

Does surfing the interwebs destroy brain cells?

[WillParkinson]

26. Not at all!

It just causes them to atrophy a bit. :P