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Okay, I have now officially found Another Problem with ebooks.
I remember a science fiction ebook I read last year. It had a protagonist who was the last survivor of her colony planet; some plague had made everyone go crazy & kill each other. She signed on with a group studying another culture that seemed to be hit by the same plague, in which a couple of the people were one mind shared in two bodies (they'd originally been two people, who merged somehow). The whole expedition had help/interference from an AI-ish culture/entity. (Maybe nanites. Not sure if those qualify as AI.)
I've forgotten all the names. Characters, author, title, everything. I remember flashes of the book. I vaguely remember the cover, maybe. (Woman in tight-fitting leather armor-ish outfit looking out over a wilderness?) But because the title & author wasn't at the top of every page, and because I didn't see the bookcover every time I picked it up to read, I didn't have it reinforced enough to remember the details later.
It occurs to me that I've read several short stories from Smashwords that I remember vague details about, but not titles or authors.
Hmm. Maybe something for authors to remember: Might be useful to put a bit with your name & the book title at the end of the book, because someone reading on ebook isn't getting that info several times during reading. ("Thank you for reading The Endless Perfect Story by Wonderful Author," possibly with "Please return to Smashwords to rate/review" as an option for SW ebooks.)
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