With all the holiday sales available on hardcover and paperback books, is there a good reason for buying the Kindle or Nook version? My answer is yes – when the book is a doorstopper that is heavy to lug around or even to read on your lap.
Here are six titles available either for Kindle, Nook or both that offer the best weight-to-price ratio:
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace ($9.99) The dead-trees version of Wallace’s huge masterpiece is almost 1100 pages. If anything would spur you to start reading the famously long-winded Wallace, it is the ebook version.
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin ($8.99). If anything would spur me to read this best-selling 864-page fantasy title that became an HBO sensation, it is the ebook version.
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King ($14.99) The always readable author combines time travel and the assassination of John F. Kennedy in his latest fat novel.
- Ulysses by James Joyce (95 cents Nook, free Kindle) is among the many classics now available from Amazon that are in the public domain. This 800-plus staple of college lit courses looks more approachable in its ebook incarnation compared with a print edition.
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson ($14.99) weighs in at 2 pounds 8 ounces and 1056 pages in its print edition. Both this novel and Cryptonomicon ($9.99), an earlier Stephenson work of almost exactly the same length but cheaper in ebook form
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