I recently read Emerson cover to cover, so to speak, on my iPhone’s Kindle app — a lesson both in Transcendentalism and the advantages of digitized literature.
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In e-book format, the Centenary is available from Amazon for $10. At Barnes & Noble, which offers Google’s scans of a half million public-domain books, it’s free.
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Reading the Centenary in digital form isn’t without its kinks. In the Kindle iPhone version, most em-dashes disappear (i.e., “The history of literaturetake the net result of Tiraboschi, Warton, or Schlegel is a sum of very few ideas.”) The e-text conversion for Barnes & Noble’s iPhone app is worse, downright slapdash. There are typos, spaces before and after quotation marks and no line breaks separating paragraphs. Barnes & Noble also makes it a chore to assemble the 12-book set. The bafflingly inadequate bibliographical information on the site doesn’t distinguish among the volumes, which must be downloaded one at a time. (The set is a single file on Amazon).
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