We have our JUNE group read WINNERS!!

[Lori, Super Mod]

Im getting the Woman In White through Dailylit.com HOWEVER, it comes in 286 emails... meaning I will STILL be reading it almost a year from now! Ha!!!

[Amy]

Isn't it up on Project Gutenberg? You can read it online, or download to your computer.

ETA: Here's the link for the search engine. Yep, The Woman in White is there...

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Lori, Super Mod]

Amy, thanks.... I will have to take a look further into that!

[Susan C]

I just recieved P&P&Z from Alibris where I was lucky enough to get new copy for around $8.

I'm ready to start this challenge. I'll ley you know how P&P&Z compares to P&P which I read a few years ago.

I'm excited!!!!!!!

[JSou]

Yay! I got The Woman in White in the mail over the weekend. I bought P&P&Z last week, so I'm not sure which one to start first!

Good score, Susan! I wish I would've checked Alibris first, before paying full price for P&P&Z at B&N! Oh well! :)

[Lori, Super Mod]

Discussion threads are all set up....
The covers look eery lined up like that... dont they?

[Diane]

Lori wrote: "Discussion threads are all set up....
The covers look eery lined up like that... dont they?"

ha! Yes, they do!

[Amy]

Lori wrote: "Amy, thanks.... I will have to take a look further into that!"

You're welcome. I keep forgetting about Project Gutenberg. Probably because I'd rather hold an actual book in my hands, and not read online. And printing out an entire book from a file on hard drive seems kind of silly, too.

[Lori, Super Mod]

I never read online, but I have a dread of Victorian Lit.... and wasnt sure if I wanted to spend money on both... so I chose PPZ to purchase, and thought I would try WiW online....

[Mosca]

People are discussing reading books at Project Gutenberg and other such sites.

You can, of course, read the book on line. I prefer holding a printed text in my hand. But some of the Project Gutenburg books are only available in .txt files that are not easy to read--however there is much improvement now and many are in .pdf and HTML.

So I copy and paste the difficult files into Microsoft Word or some other word processor. I can then adjust the font and size to a pleasant reading format; and print it out.

I read "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens this way. Even a book this large only cost me about $2 in copy paper and printer ink. And I printed it out about a chapter or two each time so it wasn't so cumbersome to carry about.

Just a suggestion.

[Amy]

True; but I guess I like the better portability of books, already bound, that are smaller than 8-1/2" by 11." YMMV.

:)

[Susan C]

I definitely want toreada book in my hands. My eyesight is already bad, I can't imagine what it would be like after spending so much time online trying to read and I have a 17" screen laptop.

[Susan C]

Lori wrote: "I never read online, but I have a dread of Victorian Lit.... and wasnt sure if I wanted to spend money on both... so I chose PPZ to purchase, and thought I would try WiW online...."

Some people believe that The Woman in White is the first mystery book that started the genre. I don't know whether or not that changes your view of the book.

[Jeane]

Becky wrote: "I'm a little afraid to read P&P&Z, what if I can no longer think of Lizzie the same way again??"

I saw the book in the shop yesterday and was reading the backcover....jeezzzzzz, I am really not sure if I will read it. I mean, it is pride and prejudice...that book that I don't have a clue why but love it book.......

[Jeane]

Alisha wrote: "I have never read Pride and Prejudice either, but own it and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I don't know which one to read first. I'm thinking that if I read P&P&Z first and like it, then I'll ..."

I have a feeling it might be better to read fist pride and prejudice before you read it and have zombies already in your head!!!:-)))

[Susan C]

I have read P&P and really liked it.

I'm trying to have the mind set that P&P&Z is an amusing take on a classic. A HA-HA kind of book.

I think you can read P&P&Z before P&P because when I look through P&P&Z the dialogue is more modern and P&P is definetly everything you would expect from a Jane Austin proper high english book.

I will read it before The Woman in White and let you know if my assumptions are correct.