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Old 12-30-2020, 01:48 PM   #29522
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Originally Posted by LDB View Post
I didn't know about Tor.com, probably because SF isn't really my thing, but you can't beat free and that might be enough to make me a convert. Thanks for mentioning it.
Most of the book club's offerings amount to "here's book one of a series, so we can promote the new installment," but that ain't nothin'. If you happen to dig Star Trek, startrekbooks.com usually offers a handful of backlist novels each month for 99 cents each. Sometimes they're a grab bag (like now), but I've also picked up some complete story arcs that way... and the site links to the traditional stores, so you're not locked into their specific website.

Meanwhile, on the thread's topic: I've picked up several graphic novels here at the end of the year. I usually get a couple at a time and read them about as quickly as I buy them, but this month has actually been bountiful enough to create a small TBR stack. In the list are a dozen Marvel Masterworks volumes at one or two bucks each, DC's Tales of the Dark Multiverse (a "what if everything went badly wrong in some of our biggest storylines?" compilation), Injustice Year Five, the gorgeous Harleen (another retelling of Mad Love), and half a dozen other volumes that I'm very unlikely to find cheaper anytime soon. Two of those are mostly repurchases of Black Panther material I got as single issues during the big giveaway when Boseman died, but (a) they were two bucks each, (b) they're more convenient to handle, and (c) they include some material which was not free that would be more expensive to buy separately.

So I've been reading some of those because my brain would rather plot Real Books than read them at present.
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