Quotidiana: Classical Essays for Your Kindle

Today's Amazon Kindle status: IN STOCK!

Tired of popular page-turners and summer beach reading?

338 classical essays, from antiquity to the early twentieth century are available for your Kindle reading pleasure at Quotidiana, an online anthology of public domain essays from antiquity to the early twentieth century.

Find an essay you wish to read on your Kindle, click the "Generate PDF" button, and send the resulting file to your Amazon Kindle e-mail account. Amazon will convert it to .azw format and deliver it via Whispernet to your Kindle.

Book lovers will enjoy Christopher Morley's essay "On Visiting Bookshops"

"It is a curious thing that so many people only go into a bookshop when they happen to need some particular book. Do they never drop in for a little innocent carouse and refreshment? There are some knightly souls who even go so far as to make their visits to bookshops a kind of chivalrous errantry at large. They go in not because they need any certain volume, but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them. Some wistful, little forgotten sheaf of loveliness, long pining away on an upper shelf—why not ride up, fling her across your charger (or your charge account), and gallop away. Be a little knightly, you book-lovers!"

Or perhaps Francis Bacon's classic "Of Studies" with the oft-heard quotation:

"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."

Quotidiana also includes short biographies of each of the essayists.