This won't be a wordy post like my usual rambling essays.
I'm not going to go through every single pro and con of a kindle because everywhere on the internet has that. I am going to work out how many free classics or payed books you'd have to read to justify monetarily to buy a basic kindle (£69).
I'm not going to go through every single pro and con of a kindle because everywhere on the internet has that. I am going to work out how many free classics or payed books you'd have to read to justify monetarily to buy a basic kindle (£69).
All books are assumed at their minimum Book Depository Value as of January 2014 in British Pounds
1. The Great Gastby -£3.99
2. Pride and Prejudice - £2.40
3. Les Miserables - £7.01
4. The Secret Garden - £2.40
5. Wuthering Heights - £2.72
6. A Tale of Two Cities - £1.99
7. Great Expectations - £1.99
8. Dracula - £2.73
9. A Christmas Carol - £2.95
10. The Ugly Duckling - £2.50
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray - £1.99
12. Little Women - £2.40
13. The Wind in the Willows - £1.99
14. David Copperfield - £1.99
15. Persuasion - £1.61
16. Moby Dick - £4.49
17. The Time Machine - £2.07
18. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights - £6.94
19. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - £1.30
20. The Iliad - £1.99
21. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - £2.13
22. Gulliver's Travels - £1.99
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - £2.64
24. Northanger Abbey - £2.53
25. The Three Musketeers - £1.99
26. The Scarlet Letter - £2.13
27. The Moonstone - £2.54
If you read 27 classics you would be able to afford the basic kindle.
For the payed bit I will work out the difference (book depository - kindle cost)
1. The Husband's Secret - £3.66
2. Twelve Years A Slave - £4.37
3. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy - £8.36
4. The Goldfinch - £9.65
5. Abducted (The Lizzy Gardner Series #1) - £4.89
6. Inferno - £8.62
7. The Railway Man - £3.26
8. Saints of the Shadow Bible - £7.66
9. First Thrills - £3.87
10. Gone Girl - £5.56
11. When You Walked Back Into My Life- £5.34
12. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul - 4.40
You would only need to read 12 payed for books on kindle to justify buying the basic kindle.
n.b. this blog post is not sponsored in Amazon in any way I'm just that odd mix of maths nerd and literary nerd.
6. A Tale of Two Cities - £1.99
7. Great Expectations - £1.99
8. Dracula - £2.73
9. A Christmas Carol - £2.95
10. The Ugly Duckling - £2.50
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray - £1.99
12. Little Women - £2.40
13. The Wind in the Willows - £1.99
14. David Copperfield - £1.99
15. Persuasion - £1.61
16. Moby Dick - £4.49
17. The Time Machine - £2.07
18. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights - £6.94
19. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - £1.30
20. The Iliad - £1.99
21. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - £2.13
22. Gulliver's Travels - £1.99
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - £2.64
24. Northanger Abbey - £2.53
25. The Three Musketeers - £1.99
26. The Scarlet Letter - £2.13
27. The Moonstone - £2.54
If you read 27 classics you would be able to afford the basic kindle.
For the payed bit I will work out the difference (book depository - kindle cost)
1. The Husband's Secret - £3.66
2. Twelve Years A Slave - £4.37
3. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy - £8.36
4. The Goldfinch - £9.65
5. Abducted (The Lizzy Gardner Series #1) - £4.89
6. Inferno - £8.62
7. The Railway Man - £3.26
8. Saints of the Shadow Bible - £7.66
9. First Thrills - £3.87
10. Gone Girl - £5.56
11. When You Walked Back Into My Life- £5.34
12. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul - 4.40
You would only need to read 12 payed for books on kindle to justify buying the basic kindle.
n.b. this blog post is not sponsored in Amazon in any way I'm just that odd mix of maths nerd and literary nerd.
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