I have just recently downloaded fifty classics--Kipling, Huxley, etc.--for 99 cents onto my iPhone, and read them happily whenever I get a chance. The visual layout is just as easy on the eye as print, and the page turning is an effortless flick of the thumb; the whole library slips into my pocket when I need to be onto other things, and opens where I left it when I come back.

There are hundreds of others available on the 'Net for free of little money, as well.

It's a reader's paradise. Much as I love soft paper and good bindings and artistic fonts, this is a very happy alternative.

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