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I got a kindle from my dad! And a collection of books from my uncle!
My favourite aspect so far is the ability to highlight and then read all the quotes on one page. It makes me very happy. Here's a list of what I've got on there so far:
Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) - William Gibson
All Tomorrow's Parties - Gibson
The Analects of Confucius
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Black Book - Ian Rankin
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
The Book of Tea - Kakuso Okakura
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Collected works of Rudyard Kipling
Daisy Miller and Other Stories - Henry James
Debt of Bones - Terry Goodkind
The Demon-Haunted World: science as a candle in the dark - Carl Sagan
Discourses on the first decade of Titus Livius - Machiavelli
Ethics - Aristotle
Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and other American stories - Hunter S Thompson
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales
Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie
I am America (and so can you!) - Stephen Colbert
The Interpretation of Dreams - Freud
The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
The Joyous Cosmology: adventures in the chemistry of consciousness - Alan Watts
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
Laws - Plato
The Looking Glass War - John Le Carre
Lord Edgeware Dies - Agatha Christie
The Man who Knew Too Much - G. K. Chesterton
The Medici Dagger - Cameron West
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates - Xenophon
Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie
The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
My Inventions - Nikola Tesla
The Naughtiest Girl in the School - Enid Blyton
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
On the Nature of Consciousness: Cognitive, phenomenological and transpersonal perspectives - Harry T Hunt
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Please Look After Mother - Kyung-sook Shin
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Politics - Aristotle
Prometheus Rising - Aaron Johnson
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy in China and Japan - Kaiten Nukariya
The Renegade's Woman - Nikita Black
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
A Short History of the World - H. G. Wells
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - J. R. R. Tolkien
Six Short Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
A Small Town in Germany - John Le Carre
Smiley's People - John Le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre
Stories by American Authors
Surgical Anatomy - Joseph Maclise
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Tales from Watership Down - Richard Adams
Taoism
The Theory of Everything - C. Leung
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius - Marcus Aurelius (I know this will likely be deep but I can't help but hope it's stuff like 'must invent sandwich' or 'nts: pick up laundry'
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy - John Le Carre
Welsh Folk-Lore - Elias Owen (ty Douwe!)
Wild Seed - Octavia Butler
The Wisdom of Confucius
The Witch and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
SO MUCH TO READ. This is fucking terrible for my grade likely, because I keep randomly getting lost in books. What's worse is thanks to my uncle I now have Tolkein's complete collection on my desktop, as well as a bunch of Greek classics. I can't with the LotR books (they get interesting about three million pages in, then lose it again) but I love his other writing. SO MANY AMERICAN AUTHORS THOUGH I might just get a pass via osmosis.
Eeeee bookgasm.
My favourite aspect so far is the ability to highlight and then read all the quotes on one page. It makes me very happy. Here's a list of what I've got on there so far:
Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) - William Gibson
All Tomorrow's Parties - Gibson
The Analects of Confucius
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Black Book - Ian Rankin
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
The Book of Tea - Kakuso Okakura
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Collected works of Rudyard Kipling
Daisy Miller and Other Stories - Henry James
Debt of Bones - Terry Goodkind
The Demon-Haunted World: science as a candle in the dark - Carl Sagan
Discourses on the first decade of Titus Livius - Machiavelli
Ethics - Aristotle
Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and other American stories - Hunter S Thompson
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales
Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie
I am America (and so can you!) - Stephen Colbert
The Interpretation of Dreams - Freud
The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
The Joyous Cosmology: adventures in the chemistry of consciousness - Alan Watts
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
Laws - Plato
The Looking Glass War - John Le Carre
Lord Edgeware Dies - Agatha Christie
The Man who Knew Too Much - G. K. Chesterton
The Medici Dagger - Cameron West
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates - Xenophon
Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie
The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
My Inventions - Nikola Tesla
The Naughtiest Girl in the School - Enid Blyton
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
On the Nature of Consciousness: Cognitive, phenomenological and transpersonal perspectives - Harry T Hunt
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Please Look After Mother - Kyung-sook Shin
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Politics - Aristotle
Prometheus Rising - Aaron Johnson
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy in China and Japan - Kaiten Nukariya
The Renegade's Woman - Nikita Black
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
A Short History of the World - H. G. Wells
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - J. R. R. Tolkien
Six Short Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
A Small Town in Germany - John Le Carre
Smiley's People - John Le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre
Stories by American Authors
Surgical Anatomy - Joseph Maclise
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Tales from Watership Down - Richard Adams
Taoism
The Theory of Everything - C. Leung
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius - Marcus Aurelius (I know this will likely be deep but I can't help but hope it's stuff like 'must invent sandwich' or 'nts: pick up laundry'
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy - John Le Carre
Welsh Folk-Lore - Elias Owen (ty Douwe!)
Wild Seed - Octavia Butler
The Wisdom of Confucius
The Witch and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
SO MUCH TO READ. This is fucking terrible for my grade likely, because I keep randomly getting lost in books. What's worse is thanks to my uncle I now have Tolkein's complete collection on my desktop, as well as a bunch of Greek classics. I can't with the LotR books (they get interesting about three million pages in, then lose it again) but I love his other writing. SO MANY AMERICAN AUTHORS THOUGH I might just get a pass via osmosis.
Eeeee bookgasm.