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I'm tempted to just buy an Amazon gift certificate and get the lot, since I a) need to focus my time and energy today on doing my taxes instead of sampling things and b) will be getting money back after mailing in my taxes anyway.
I figure that since Prologue Books is just launching, they're putting up the good stuff first (or at least books of varying quality by whom they think are the quality authors worth reprinting), in order to impress people with the line's wares. Maybe the line will drop in quality as they include the more marginal things later, or maybe the quality is already kind of uneven now, but these should overall be the decently-readable things so that they don't get a bad rep right off the bat.
And even though I've developed this pathological dislike for the Mobi format, I figure at 99 cents a pop and the possibility of getting KF8 downloads which are more easily extractable to something I can edit as an ePub without conversion cruft does kind of make up for that.
Even if the formatting is messed up on some of these and I'll already have to fix them before reading.
In any case, I'm definitely getting the Lysistrata riff, and some of the M.E. Kerr/Vin Packer/Marijane Meaker books, including the lesbian one based on the true-life crime of a very popular murder mystery author who's been writing what she knows, and the one with the transgender detective because you don't often see transgender detectives even nowadays.
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