Now there's something I had not considered. We studied classics but there
was no pleasure in it. We were commanded to answer questions such as 'what
if the secondary theme blah, blah,blah?'. I might have enjoyed them if
given the opportunity without the hassle. Polly

"Steven Cook" ...
My sister just got a Nook for Christmas, and I echo much of what Kate has
said. I have a really old, about 7 or 8 year old, eBookwise, and while I
love it, it is heavy and I would probably go with a Nook now as well.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

I also sent my sister the link above. There are over 33,000 free books.
It is a project of already digitized books, and others typed in by
volunteers. The formats available for download support a very wide variety
of devices. I really like this site because as someone who has never read
many of the classics, as they were out of favor in English classes in the
late 70's when I was in high school and then college, I can now get them
for free and read them.

Kate, Polly, that is what I love about having a device such as this. When
I travel, or even just about town when I know that I am going to have to
sit for a while, I can take this and have something to read, and if I
don't like it, I just switch to a different title.

Steven
Alaska