eBook Deals, or Books I Bought Recently

I found some more good stuff. There's a few from Angry Robot, but if you look them up on Amazon, there's really not a bad deal on any of their books. If you were wondering, I am just slapping these together, I have no system for this other than searching for things I'm interested in.


-Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind ($4.99) - Just finished, review to come shortly.
-The Damned Busters by Matthew Hughs ($2.99) - I'm reading this right now and it's great.
-Empire State by Adam Christopher ($3.99)
-Moxyland and Zoo City by Lauren Beukes ($2.99 and $2.99)
-Strata by Bradley Beaulieu and Stephen Gaskell (novella) (Staffer's Musings review)($0.99)
-Nemesis Worm by Guy Haley (novella) (Free)
-Dominion: A Coldfire Saga by C.S. Friedman ($2.99) - This is probably the normal price since it's not a full novel.
-Bio of a Space Tyrant Vol. 1: Refugee by Piers Anthony ($2.99) - This is probably the normal price as well since it was free not too long ago. Still a good deal for a full-length novel.

eBook Deals - I.e. Books I Recently Bought/Downloaded

I thought this was a good idea when I saw others doing similar posts. Now that I'm much more aware of eBook deals on my Kindle, I'll try to let you know what I've found even though you can probably find a million more sources for better information.

(Free ninety nine)

Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht (review - A Dribble of Ink) [Free]
This is Not a Game by Walter John Williams (Loved his story in Songs of the Dying Earth) [$2.99]
An Election by John Scalzi (short story) [$0.99]
The Tale of the Wicked by John Scalzi (short story) [$0.99]
If at First... by Peter F. Hamilton (short story) [Free]
Wild Cards I Edited by George R.R. Martin [$2.99]
Miserere: An Autumn Tale by Teresa Frohock [$3.99]
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale [$2.24]
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [Free]
H.P. Lovecraft Collections [Anywhere from Free to $2.99]
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson [Free]

My New Kindle Touch

Yep, I've been talking about it so much lately, you probably didn't think it was going to happen... but you were wrong, I now have a Kindle Touch (cause it's my birthday). :)

I considered the Kindle Fire (as I mentioned here), but I already have a short enough attention span and more apps is the last thing I need. I also wanted something easier on my eyes than another computer screen.


So...I also found out it is WAY too easy to buy books for this thing. I blew $20 bucks in about 5 minutes, not even counting the 5 or 6 free copies I downloaded.

I also found out that while it says it can view .pdf's (and it does), it's pretty crappy. You can view the document, but the size is completely off. You do have the ability to zoom in, but then you have to keep scrolling across the screen to read the rest of each sentence.

Luckily I found a nice converter from any document type to any other document type (pretty much) and all online, there's nothing to download other than the file you converted.

What's the Deal With... This Amazon Kindle Commercial

An internet rant is a beautiful thing, I mean, why even be online, with all the anonymity that brings, and even attempt to contain all that angst. It's why we have comments on everything from blogs to Youtube to news stories. People need to complain! We have things on our chest and we've got to get them off...and our significant others are just plain tired of hearing the same thing over and over again.

In light of this, I decided to institute a new feature on the blog where I can bring up whatever's on my mind, be it terrible book covers, titles, ideas, bloggers (okay, probably just Pat), you name it and have some fun with it.

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First, if you haven't seen this Amazon Kindle commercial, here it is:



So, this commercial is trying to tell you that you can download a book in less than 60 seconds, which is fine and all, but it's how they do it that bugs me.

Really? Of all things book people (or bibliophiles if that's how you roll) hate, it is going to book stores. They just despise looking through thousands of adventures and imagination-expanding possibilities and would do anything, including purchasing an Amazon Kindle, to avoid them.

Wait a darn second, I'm calling BS. If I say I'm going to the bookstore, you better not count on my coming back for at least a few hours. It's one of my all-time favorite places to play. :)

And while I realize we've allowed one bookstore to crash (although I'm pretty sure it's them not us at fault) and while the Amazon Kindle is a great thing (it's finally on my Christmas wishlist), bibliophiles do not want to avoid bookstores.