Buy
You can buy Austen books on-line from Amazon.com, but you don’t want to do that. You want to get an old copy with a cracking cover and slightly yellow pages.

(above) The Book Trader II located near 14th and Redfield in La Crosse.

The best place to acquire Austen books is at a used bookstore. Don’t be afraid of the exterior of these gold mines. Go inside and ask where the classics are, and you will be directed to an aisle with at least a shelf of used Austen books. Flip through them and avoid the ones highlighted by college students who didn’t have the good sense to keep the one good book they had to read in their literature class. Go for the old one with the wood cut illustration on the cover.

If you are really adventurous, search for Austen books at garage sales. Skip past the tables loaded with kitchen utensils and find the box of books in the back. Then leaf through fifty romance novels until you find the old copy of Pride and Prejudice. Then you can be proud of your find, like the hunter who spends a day in his tree stand to drop the trophy buck (not that I would have any idea what that feels like).

Amazon
The following page has links to Austen books and books about Austen from Amazon
http://janeausten.com/

Click the following link to get the complete works in one volume from Amazon. But who wants that? You want musty old individual copies that you found at a used bookstore for 50¢ each.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517118297/
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Here is a good book about Jane, available from Amazon.
Jane Austen, A Life. By Claire Tomalin
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679766766/
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