Do You Own a Kindle?

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I think about my own books, which i have a huge emotional attachment to references recently. It's not really, i don't now if it's sad. Ois somethig really beautiful about it. They still get to be enjoyed. Ah, most of them, thi they survive, and soone else gets to read them. So maybe it's not sad at all. Maybe not.

Author and professor Janine Barchas of the University of Texas talks about her book, The Lost Books of Jane Austen, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation explores Austen's enduring reputation, how the cheap reprints of her work allowed that reputation to thrive, the links between Shakespeare and Austen, how Austen has thrived despite the old-fashioned nature of her content, Colin Firth's shirt, and the virtue of studying literature.