Free books by the millions? I haven’t downloaded the app for my iPad yet, but this looks really seductive. I wonder what the catch is:
Here’s the link: books.google.com/ebooks
And I looked up Thoreau’s Walden. It reads pretty nice: http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=yiQ3AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader
The catch seems to be that your eyes get tired from reading with the iPad. Well, some complain about it anyway. Maybe a Kindle is better?
The iPad has a lot of versatility that the Kindle lacks, but you may be right about the eye fatigue issue.
—Santi