Thursday, October 21, 2010

The end (for now)


I've finally cobbled together enough time to finish my guide to purchasing the Great Books on the nook. I need to clarify that I'm working from the original collection. I will eventually work in the books and authors who were added in the revision, but for now what I have seems plenty to keep me busy. I have also elected that with only three exceptions I will skip the scientists. They seem like they would be interesting, but science is only a side interest for me. If they are important to you, well, you're on your own. Once again all these items are available for free, but I've found the little perks that come with purchasing an upgraded version are often valuable. This half could set you back 72.69, if you buy the versions that offer extras, bringing our grand total to 137.08. That is absolutely amazing when you consider that that is 56 authors and many times that number of complete texts.

Great Books on a nook/the last half

Cervantes 1.99 Barnes and Noble
Bacon 3.99 Mobile Reference
Descartes (Could not find complete set) .99 Golgotha Press
Spinoza 1.99 B&N
Milton 3.99 MR
Pascal (Could not find complete set) 2.99 eBooksLib
.95 MR
Locke 2.99 MR
Berkeley .95 B&R Samizedat Express
Hume 3.19 MR
Swift 1.99 B&N
Sterne .95 MR
Fielding 1.99 B&N
Montesquieu .95 MR
Rousseau 4.79 MR
Adam Smith 1.99 B&N
Gibbon .95 MR (Abridged)
44.46 for 3 book set
Kant 4.79 MR
Federalist Papers .95 MR
J.S. Mill 2.99 Neeland Media LLC
Boswell 1.99 B&N
Hegel (could not find complete set) 1.99 B&N
Goethe 4.79 MR
Melville 1.99 B&N
Darwin 3.99 Archiebooks
Marx 4.79 MR
Tolstoy 4.79 MR
Dostoevesky .99 Douglas Editions
William James .00
Freud .00