Look below "device details" for a full list of titles available on the Kindle.
The Alva and Enid NWOSU campus libraries now have the Amazon Kindle available for checkout! Students, faculty and staff now have the opportunity to utilize the newest innovation in reading technology. The Alva and Enid editions of the Kindle both have 50 + titles available for reading at the push of a button including Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik, and The Next 100 Years : A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman. Classic novels such as The Three Musketeers and Tales of the Jazz Age are available to read on the Kindle as well. The device may be checked out for up to two weeks. If you are interested in checking out the Kindle or putting your name on the hold list for the device, please see Mrs. Graybill in Alva, or Mrs. Moore in Enid.
Device Details:
Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines
Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback
Paper-like Display: Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images
Long Battery Life: 25% longer battery life; read for days without recharging
Read-to-Me: With the new text-to-speech feature, Kindle can read every newspaper, magazine, blog, and book out loud to you, unless the book's rights holder made the feature unavailable
Titles Available:
According to Jane by Marilyn Brant
The Adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt
The Bounty by Beth Williamson
The Cooks Illustrated How-to-Cook Library
The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Hide in Plain Sight by Marta Perry
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
I Heart Bloomberg by Melody Carlson
The Iliad by Homer
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Keeper by Sarah Langan
The Last Trail by Zane Grey
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Made to Stick by Dan Heath
Magic Kingdom for Sale (Sold!) by Terry Brooks
Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Next 100 Years by George Friedman
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Persuader by Lee Child
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Poems 1817 by John Keats
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Settling Accounts: Return Engagement by Harry Turtledove
Snowbound By Janice Kay Johnson
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith by John Jackson
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Urge to Kill by John Lutz
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Posted on
Monday, October 5, 2009
by Lisa Herning