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MrTeatime · 12-19-2011, 06:32 AM

The last remaining "Book of the New Sun" entry was just made available by sfgateway this morning, so I thought I'd see how my list of books that I cannot yet buy in eBook format was doing

I started making this list at the beginning of the year when I bought my eReader and was disappointed to find that only a fraction of the DT books I wanted to replace were available as eBooks.

So far I've crossed off:

- Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun" quadrilogy, plus his "Fifth Head of Cerberus"* (released over the period of September to December")

- David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" (finally(!) made available in the UK in April)

- The RSC Shakespeare (just released this month, although I'm waiting for them to appear on kobobooks - preferably with a hefty discount voucher - before I snap them up! Much more expensive buying them individually than the all-in-one paperback, though :/)

- The Oxford World's Classics of Ulysses (technically appearing next January, but close enough! The £1.89 price tag is a bit of a surprise, though - I hope Amazon haven't mixed it up with some un-annotated edition :/)

- Thomas Ligotti's "My Work is Not Yet Done" (released in May; a huge and pleasant surprise, this, as Ligotti is nearly always out of print - likewise great to see that Teatro Grottesco was already available)

- Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" trilogy

- Clive Barker's "WeaveWorld".

Still waiting for:

- Many of Hunter S Thompson's works e.g. the "Fear and Loathing"s (geographical restrictions)

- Many of William S Burroughs works (Kindle exclusives(?) I don't trust the ones that have recently appeared on kobobooks - no one else seems to be selling them)

- Many of David Foster Wallace's works

- Most of Vladimir Nabokov's works

- Ray Bradbury Stories, Volumes I & II (geographical restrictions)

- Anything by Roger Zelazny

- A secular study bible, preferably the Oxford Annotated Bible

How many have you guys been able to tick off this year?

* Incidentally, sci-fi fans: sfgateway seem to have dropped prices across the board from £4.99 to a much more impulse-buy-friendly £2.99 - not sure whether this is just a "Christmas promo" thing or not, though.

12-19-2011, 06:32 AM	#1
MrTeatime Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 513276 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Sony PRS-350	How much has your "not available as eBook" list decreased this year? The last remaining "Book of the New Sun" entry was just made available by sfgateway this morning, so I thought I'd see how my list of books that I cannot yet buy in eBook format was doing I started making this list at the beginning of the year when I bought my eReader and was disappointed to find that only a fraction of the DT books I wanted to replace were available as eBooks. So far I've crossed off: - Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun" quadrilogy, plus his "Fifth Head of Cerberus"* (released over the period of September to December") - David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" (finally(!) made available in the UK in April) - The RSC Shakespeare (just released this month, although I'm waiting for them to appear on kobobooks - preferably with a hefty discount voucher - before I snap them up! Much more expensive buying them individually than the all-in-one paperback, though :/) - The Oxford World's Classics of Ulysses (technically appearing next January, but close enough! The £1.89 price tag is a bit of a surprise, though - I hope Amazon haven't mixed it up with some un-annotated edition :/) - Thomas Ligotti's "My Work is Not Yet Done" (released in May; a huge and pleasant surprise, this, as Ligotti is nearly always out of print - likewise great to see that Teatro Grottesco was already available) - Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" trilogy - Clive Barker's "WeaveWorld". Still waiting for: - Many of Hunter S Thompson's works e.g. the "Fear and Loathing"s (geographical restrictions) - Many of William S Burroughs works (Kindle exclusives(?) I don't trust the ones that have recently appeared on kobobooks - no one else seems to be selling them) - Many of David Foster Wallace's works - Most of Vladimir Nabokov's works - Ray Bradbury Stories, Volumes I & II (geographical restrictions) - Anything by Roger Zelazny - A secular study bible, preferably the Oxford Annotated Bible How many have you guys been able to tick off this year? * Incidentally, sci-fi fans: sfgateway seem to have dropped prices across the board from £4.99 to a much more impulse-buy-friendly £2.99 - not sure whether this is just a "Christmas promo" thing or not, though. Last edited by MrTeatime; 12-19-2011 at 08:54 AM.