This is most definitely a wish list with little hopes of seeing results. Even if Sony wanted to, I think it would be hard for them. I'm sure they are already trying very hard to expand their list of available books.

But I know there are some books that we'd really really like to see, and it's good to have a place to share our longings.

I'll start out with the book I really want to read. Recently, my reading list has been basically frivolous things that are purely relaxing recreation. But one non-frivolous book that I really want to read on my Reader is the following:

Warped Passages (http://www.amazon.com/Warped-Passages-Unraveling-Mysteries-Dimensions/dp/0060531096) by Lisa Randall.

Lisa Randall is a Harvard professor who explains particle physics to us. I heard her on a televised seminar once, and she's a great speaker. I'd love to hear updates from her as work on the new supercollider completes and we start getting answers back on some of the big questions that can even help determine whether current string theory and brane concepts might be right or wrong.

Then after reading it, I'll go back to my frivolous books for a while to rest my brain! ;-)

Ah, yes, the new supercollider which creates tiny black holes several times a minute... :)

I want the following books:

1. My Name is Read (http://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Red-Orhan-Pamuk/dp/0375706852/sr=1-1/qid=1161478241/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0128108-5492159?ie=UTF8&s=books) -Orhan Pamuk
2. Snow (http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Orhan-Pamuk/dp/0375706860/sr=1-3/qid=1161478241/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/102-0128108-5492159?ie=UTF8&s=books) - Orhan Pamuk
3. The White Castle (http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Orhan-Pamuk/dp/0375706860/sr=1-3/qid=1161478241/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/102-0128108-5492159?ie=UTF8&s=books) - Orhan Pamuk
4. The New Life (http://www.amazon.com/New-Life-Orhan-Pamuk/dp/0375701710/sr=1-6/qid=1161478241/ref=sr_1_6/102-0128108-5492159?ie=UTF8&s=books) - Orhan Pamuk
5. The Inheritance of Loss (http://www.amazon.com/Inheritance-Loss-Kiran-Desai/dp/0802142818/sr=1-1/qid=1161478777/ref=sr_1_1/102-0128108-5492159?ie=UTF8&s=books) - Kiran Desai
6. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (http://www.amazon.com/Great-War-Civilisation-Robert-Fisk/dp/1841150088/ref=ed_oe_p/104-7453473-6889503?ie=UTF8) - Robert Fisk
7. Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Workshop-America-United-Imperialism/dp/0805077383/sr=1-9/qid=1161479016/ref=sr_1_9/104-7453473-6889503?ie=UTF8&s=books) - Greg Grandin
8. The Dwarfs (http://www.amazon.com/Dwarfs-Novel-Pinter-Harold/dp/0802132669/sr=1-4/qid=1161479447/ref=sr_1_4/104-7453473-6889503?ie=UTF8&s=books) - Harold Pinter

1). All of Robert A Heinlen
2). Mythical Man Month
3). All of Hospital Station Series by James White
4). Art of Talk by Art Bell
5). Perry Rodan. Am nuts... all of them.

The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth
All of Richard Dawkins

The Harry Potter books.

I'm looking at the publishers on my nearest shelf: Tor, Spectra, Bantam, Baen, Del Rey, Scholastic, Ace ... those are just the ones I can read from here. :beam:

And I second the Harry Potter books! (they're so stinkin' heavy!)

1) All of Stephen Baxter
2) All of Trudi Canavan
3) All of Raymond Feist

That'll do for the moment.

For One More Day - Mitch Albom

I can't believe no-one mentioned Tolkien yet.

"The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness" by Steven Levy. (Due for release next week in hardcover.)

They've got all the Del-Rey reprints of the wandering star Robert E. Howard books...except the first one (The Coming of Conan). What's up with that?

Since Penguin is in the game, I'd like to see them put up their reprints of H. G. Wells and H. P. Lovecraft. While they're at it, they could put up all the Ian Fleming Bond novels.

Rowling's Harry Potter books would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath. Tolkien, yea, I might even get past the first half of The Two Towers this time.

Steven Levy's other two books, Hackers and Insanely Great would be nifty.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, anyone?

But please! Would Ereads and Rosetta please do better proof-reading? The OCR errors in the Fritz Leiber and Douglas Adams novels are getting ridiculous.

2nd on James Bond!

And just to collect the Tom Swift series from the last 50 to 70. All there are are two with no copyright.


There is a german subscription for Perry Rhodan.

I'd like to see some political books from smaller publishers, like Amy Goodman's recent "Static."

Griffbrad, did you get a chance to see her on Static's promotional tour with her brother (co-author)? The presentation was quite good.

Yeah, my girlfriend and I saw her at the ACME conference in VT a couple weeks ago. She's a great speaker. I've noticed that a lot of the smaller, progressive publishers don't have their stuff available in ebook form, though. Not sure what more to do about it other than shooting them email to let them know there is at least some demand.

All of Stephen Baxter like ultim8fury said, especially Resplendent even though it just came out. In fact more hard sci-fi in general.

Oh, and EVERY Star Trek book EVER written. :)

Tom Clancy's (wristbreaking) novels would be nice.

I want to replace some of my bulkier paper books, so I'd really like Woodward and Bernstein's Final Days (and All the Presidents Men), Ecoffier's Modern Cookery and the Larousse Gastronomique. Although, to be honest, for the latter two, and really most reference works, I think I'd get more use out of them with a search function.

--books that I wish were at any e-book store--
# Douglas Coupland's JPod would be nice.
# a lot of physics textbooks

Heh, I still have JPod sitting in my nightstand in hardback. It was the next book I was going to read, but then I got the reader and haven't read any paper books since then.

I want JPod too.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

I'd like to see the "Brief History" series by Hawking

All of William Gibson's work (some is already there)

All of David Brin's work

of course all of Tolkien - already mentioned but important to me due to "re-read" value...

A couple of thoughts after reading through this interesting thread:

- Baen: They have electronic versions of many of their books available. (I got several Keith Laumer novels/short story collections for free!) Their site is a little complicated to navigate, but worth the effort. You can get entire CD's of books as bonuses to some of their "subscription" collections. Most of their books are in the 4-6 USD range and come in multiple, non-DRM formats (including RTF).

- The original Tom Swift stories are available on Gutenberg. (Not the Tom Swift Jr series, though.)

- Doug Coupland's first book (MicroSerfs) was an expanded version of a LONG article in an early issue of WIRED magazine. You can still download it from their website (make sure you select "Magazine" in the search box, not the Wired Online content). Still a great read.

I just read a review of The Family That Couldn't Sleep and was surprised (sorry Sony) to find it in the Connect store. Would have been nice if it was cheaper, but I figure I'm voting with my wallet for the format.

Cheers,
Bob

This is odd...

Gutenberg does have one of the TS JR series. But Manybooks have that one and another... Odd to have these two in PD and not the others...

What about Ben Bova's Cyberbooks. Is that there?

Gutenberg does have one of the TS JR series. But Manybooks have that one and another... Odd to have these two in PD and not the others...Could just be that no one has proccessed them yet.... :shrug:

Come on Sony you need to put more popular manga in your little store. And for books : Harry Potter, Lord of the rings series, Orson Scott collection and David Gemmell (rest in peace).

I guess this discussion highlights one of the major problems with proprietary formats. We all have to wait until Sony completes conversions for books to be available through their store. :(

Could just be that no one has proccessed them yet.... :shrug:


Could be...

Doesn't really fit here, but I wish the store had this book (http://ebooks.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/038/434/400000000000000038434.html) with the title spelled correctly. (The Deeper Meaning of Liff)

While I'm here... I'd also like the Riverworld series by Philip José Farmer.

This is odd...

Gutenberg does have one of the TS JR series. But Manybooks have that one and another... Odd to have these two in PD and not the others...

Thanks!

You are welcome! ^_^

Would like the rest! But two are ok right now.

Ditto on Dawkins and Heinlein. Add in all of Marion Zimmer Bradley, Orson Scott Card, David Eddings, and Arthur C. Clarke. (Clear off four of my bookshelves...)

More by the Dalai Lama (what! you say -- non sci-fi?? :) ) would be welcomed as well.

Just ordered a book at amazon _The Making of the Fittest_ because it wasn't on connect -- very irritated...

New releases! I am a pulp fiction reader (not a high brow one as Bob will attest to ;)) and in order for me to keep my reader, I need to find books at Sony Connect that are readily available from every other ebook vendor on the net. Is it really so hard?

Send me the conversion software, Sony, and I'll get the books ready for ya.

What's pulp fiction? I thought that was a term used for early 20th century books?

What's pulp fiction? I thought that was a term used for early 20th century books?

Dan Brown :D

pulp fiction, to me, equals mass market paperbacks although I suppose it is a moniker that could be applied to everything fiction that is not serious fiction. Which then begets the question of what is serious fiction.

Me too Jane, though my taste runs towards dectective and mystery books. That's my zone out reading. Gimme some meaty history or culture non-fiction though, for when I want to think.

I'd like to see all of the Nero Wolfe books by Rex Stout. They have 4 but there's over 30 of them.

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"Little Scarlet" by by Walter Mosley

-m

All of Iain M. Banks's books.
All of Tad Williams's books.
The Dune series (original series by Frank Herbert, not the followup stuff by his son).
LotR.

I agree on the Tad Williams and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Would also like to see some Dean Koontz, especially the "Trixie Koontz" books.

New book: The Tao of Warren Buffett

Old: Doc Savage books

I for one want to see a lot more technical and programming content. A key reason I bought this reader was to be able to carry scads of technical material from customer site to customer site in a very small form factor. www.ebooks.com has a good variety of technical lit in PDF (I think it is DRM'd), but Connect is VERY light in this department. I don't mind paying for the books which can run well over $40 a pop in paper form, I just don't want to carry them around. I have sent an email to the Connect customer support about this, but have not heard anything yet.

I would also like to see periodical subscriptions available as eBooks. There are a lot more newspapers and magazines (no perfume samples) that I would read if I had them with me. (I would even accept Ad Pages - why not? I do in paper)

I have been an early adopter before, so I am not daunted yet, and there is enough to read for now to keep me interested. The Sony rep I spoke to at Borders told me more was coming, but I would love to know when.

ThomWill