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ATDrake · 11-30-2014, 01:52 AM

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Thanks. I'd seen this earlier as the Amazon Daily Deal and was planning to check it out on Kobo, but I got back late from doing some stuff and by that time thought that the Kobo servers would have switched over since they usually do at midnight EST.

But it turns out that they're still discounted at Kobo for who knows how much longer, so I picked up Steven Brust's Phoenix Guards since I like his writing and want to encourage Tor to put more of his stuff on deep-discount, even if I already own the paperback in two languages, and Jo Walton's The King's Peace (via Google Play, since Kobo is being glitchy with showing the full price for this at checkout, but not the other $2.99 books I tried), since she's been generous enough to give away the prequel to this series as a CC-licensed book which is available for free download on Manybooks (and also, I really liked her Tooth and Claw, as well as her Farthing ebook giveaway when Tor.com first opened, and would buy the rest of that trilogy if they dropped the prices or put it into a money saving omnibus edition at a good price).

I skipped a couple of other things I was thinking of, since there are indeed money-saving omnibus editions for them which worked out to be cheaper even when accounting for the $2.99 1st-in-series price, after you added the non-couponable cost of the sequels.

11-30-2014, 01:52 AM	#276
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	^ Thanks. I'd seen this earlier as the Amazon Daily Deal and was planning to check it out on Kobo, but I got back late from doing some stuff and by that time thought that the Kobo servers would have switched over since they usually do at midnight EST. But it turns out that they're still discounted at Kobo for who knows how much longer, so I picked up Steven Brust's Phoenix Guards since I like his writing and want to encourage Tor to put more of his stuff on deep-discount, even if I already own the paperback in two languages, and Jo Walton's The King's Peace (via Google Play, since Kobo is being glitchy with showing the full price for this at checkout, but not the other $2.99 books I tried), since she's been generous enough to give away the prequel to this series as a CC-licensed book which is available for free download on Manybooks (and also, I really liked her Tooth and Claw, as well as her Farthing ebook giveaway when Tor.com first opened, and would buy the rest of that trilogy if they dropped the prices or put it into a money saving omnibus edition at a good price). I skipped a couple of other things I was thinking of, since there are indeed money-saving omnibus editions for them which worked out to be cheaper even when accounting for the $2.99 1st-in-series price, after you added the non-couponable cost of the sequels.