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225 Titles available for $99.95 through August 6
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I know!!!!!!! Isn't that a marvelous deal??!!! There are so many amazing books in there!!
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Makes me convinced I want an e-reader....
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Make that "NEED" one!
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Are you trying to make me spend more money?!?!
Great deal! AND I can share with my DH.
Hmmmm, maybe an e-reader for my oldest DS might be a good Christmas present. Then I can load it with all of these books....
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I have been convincing DH for the last few days that we need an ereader just for this.
I actually think we have compromised on an iPad for a Christmas gift, but I didn't realize these were on sale until Aug 6. I will get them before then for sure!
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yeah... I just bought it.
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kristacecilia wrote:
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me too!! Such a treasure. So many of those books were on our list for this year. I can tell we'll be reading from the books for years to come.
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I don't have an ereader ... do I need to get one? I know, what a question, huh? But I have this *thing* about having a book on a book shelf. Having anyone in the family go grab that book off the shelf anytime they want. Having us all sit down on the sofa together and flip through *actual* pages together. Looking at the type, admiring the pictures, seeing the creases in the pages from a well loved book that has stood the test of time and multiple generations of child readers.
or is this all but a fools memory, and I'm holding onto something, that may be really nothing ...
How do you let go of the paper inbetween your fingers? (sigh ...)
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Chris V wrote:
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You don't. But you have to realize that many of these old OOP books are simply unavailable to hold as a "real" book either due to being extremely expensive or hard/impossible to find. It's ebook or none at all. I look at the e-reader as a supplement to my "real" books, not a replacement for them. I love a book on a shelf as much as anyone, but I also want to be able to actually read these books, not just dream about them.
btw, I have not bought this particular deal because many of these books are free through various sources and I already have so many of them. But it really is a good deal when ou consider that the formatting will be improved over the free versions (with clickable tables of content, etc) and some of the books are not available free anywhere.
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Chris V wrote:
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Also, if you do much traveling.. even locally.. think how easy it would be to carry a variety of books for read aloud in one slim e-book reader that can slide into your purse (if you don't carry only one of those micro purses) 
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Chris V wrote:
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I do miss holding a real book, being able to flip through the pages and read random sections in the book.
On the other hand, though, I just got 225 books for under $100 and they don't take up ANY space in my house. We have a smaller house (considering the size of our family) so that's a big plus for me!!
(And just an aside - I have never seen e-books as nicely formatted as these. That was a big reason I jumped on the deal.)
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I also bought them because of the formatting. I tried getting epubs and pdfs, the free ones, online of some of the books I needed. they looked AWFUL. The formatting was terrible, there were symbols throughout the text, paragraphs were spaced out all over. There was no way I could use them for my children, especially not my oldest. He would have gotten all hung up on the formatting and not read the material.
I am sure there are better files out there. I know the PDFs are usually just scanned from an actual book, and you could use those.
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Chris V wrote:
I don't have an ereader ... do I need to get one? I know, what a question, huh? But I have this *thing* about having a book on a book shelf. Having anyone in the family go grab that book off the shelf anytime they want. Having us all sit down on the sofa together and flip through *actual* pages together. Looking at the type, admiring the pictures, seeing the creases in the pages from a well loved book that has stood the test of time and multiple generations of child readers.
or is this all but a fools memory, and I'm holding onto something, that may be really nothing ...
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I don't have an ereader either, Chris. I'm not even sure what that means - would that be a Kindle? See, I'm so behind the times. I just asked on another thread what I might be missing by not going the electronic route. We have a pretty good library system (local, county, and state-wide borrowing system), so I wonder how many books I couldn't get from there that would be worth downloading and printing (or just reading). The thought of trying to read a book on a screen is so not appealing to me. :) Yes, sigh.....
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Erica Sanchez wrote:
| I don't have an ereader either, Chris. I'm not even sure what that means - would that be a Kindle? See, I'm so behind the times. I just asked on another thread what I might be missing by not going the electronic route. We have a pretty good library system (local, county, and state-wide borrowing system), so I wonder how many books I couldn't get from there that would be worth downloading and printing (or just reading). The thought of trying to read a book on a screen is so not appealing to me. :) Yes, sigh..... |
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Yes, an e-reader is a Kindle or a Nook. There are other options, too, but those are the two biggies.
If you have a great library then you may not even like having an e-reader. Our library is pretty good, but I really have enjoyed getting some of the out-of-print books for free on my Kindle.
(Oh, and it isn't like reading on a screen at all. It really looks like typing on paper).
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You can also download "Kindle for PC" free from Amazon and read them on your PC, if you don't have an ereader.
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I've done that on my Macbook. And I have been a big holder-outer, too. What it comes down to for me is having the books at my fingertips, all the time, catalogued so that I can find them in an instant (for the ADD-ish menopausal scatterbrain, this is huge). Though I patronize our local used bookstore heavily and get classic books very cheaply, I might wait a long time and spend a lot of money before I found titles as perfect for what we're learning as the list at Yesterday's Classics/Baldwin.
I actually haven't bought many of those, because I don't find their pages that hard to read on the computer (compared with .pdf books, for example). But as I stumble across them as free Kindle books on Amazon, I'm downloading them to have in that format.
We do have quite a real-life, hold-in-your-hands library with books for the kids to take down and love, and I would not trade that for anything. But I love having this access to so many more books so much more affordably than I could have gotten them any other way.
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I succumbed! Great deal!
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Back to say again how much I LOVE this deal. I finally got all of the books organized into collections on my Kindle. While I was working on that I noticed so many treasures I hadn't noticed before.
-Kindergarten Gems, which I have been wanting to buy anyway.
-FOUR readers for beginning readers. I noticed the Primary one is perfect for my DS who is 5. Those readers will probably take us through the school year!
-Several short stories and biographies of Catholic Saints, including God's Troubador, a full-length bio of St. Francis of Assisi.
-Grammar-Land, which I had found a free version of previously, but this one is so nicely formatted and so much more readable that I was excited to have it.
-Several books from our SCM reading list.
What a great deal!
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