Aussie Readers discussion

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My son just told me about this site, and I have downloaded 16 already!! Thought I'd make a new thread for it, so it wouldn't get lost in the system O_o!!!

Perhaps those of you with a kindle, or eReader, can list the books you download....

Have fun!!

Oh this site..I remember looking at it and then some reason I found that I couldn't find a thing...Surely I did something wrong XD

I started with their top 100...they're all very old classics, and I'm not sure how many I'll read, but at least they will be there if I feel the urge;D

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Great Expectations
Ulysses
Around the World in 80 Days
The Count of Monte Cristo
Gulliver's Travels
Frankenstein
Les Miserables
The Jungle Book
Anne of Green Gables
Peter Pan
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Robinson Crusoe
The Call of the Wild
The Tale of Peter Rabbit

A lot of them are free on kindle too, but it's easy to add to kindle if needed

Knowledge Lost wrote: "A lot of them are free on kindle too, but it's easy to add to kindle if needed"

Yes, thanks KL, I've worked out how to transfer them across (with help...thanks Laura!!) I guess you knew about this site before?

I've got a few hundred from that site already, along with some other cool free sites. :D I finally broke down and started reading How to analyse people on site (always seems to be one of the top downloaded :P)

Project Gutenberg Australia is also avaible and is probably safer if you're worried about australian public domain compared to american. This site is smaller though and a bit more messy/harder to find the books, though i have found some books on this one that weren't on the main gutenberg site :)

Thanks Khenan, I'll check that one out too:)

Ha! About 5 minutes before I read your post, I downloaded The Communist Manifesto by Engels and Marx from Project Gutenberg for my Kindle.

PG doesn't always have Kindle versions of everything I go there for but mostly they do and conversion is pretty straightforward using Calibre anyway. I have sometimes paid $2 or $3 to get 'complete works of' collections from Amazon (e.g. Trollope, Austin, Wilkie Collins, etc.). It's very convenient but they are usually American editions and I much prefer to read my English writers untranslated!

Glad you're using it too Graham...it's a great site!