[hildea]

Originally Posted by John F

Personally, I have more books that I want to read then time to read, so skipping a book that is an Amazon exclusive is no big deal.

Yes, I feel like that too, but it hurts when it's a book that looks especially tempting. (And I'm really, really happy that Bujold started selling her books more widely, I broke my Amazon boycott for those.)

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

Buying from Amazon is getting less and less practical if you don't own an old Kindle, though, since Amazon is making it more difficult to decrypt its books.

Yes, that makes it easier to resist.

Originally Posted by Sirtel

hildea has an Onyx Boox; she could install a Kindle app on that and read the book there.

Thanks for the advice! But I'll go update my profile now: My Boox died after just a year (the on-button only worked under the full moon or when the wind blew from north or something like that, extremely wonky) and the manufacturer could neither repair nor replace it, so they gave me a refund) and I went back to my previous ereader with the bad battery and found that I can live with it and an external powerbank.

Originally Posted by Sirtel

And, while I won't ever buy a book with an unremovable DRM, many people (possibly even the majority) don't care about DRM at all; they buy a book, read it once and that's it for them. I don't know if Hildea is one of the "I'm willing to die on the DRM removal hill" crowd ; hence my suggestion about the Kindle app.

I'm part of that crowd Both for ideological reasons and because I reread a lot. I'll both reread whole books and go back to favourite passages of favourite books.

I'm still annoyed about the twenty-ish books I lost when an ebookstore went belly up ten years ago or so

Originally Posted by Sirtel

(by the way - the review seemed interesting at first, until the bit about one of the main characters groveling. I absolutely hate it when authors make their characters do that, no matter how deservedly. Immediate do-not-buy for me.)

I'm the opposite: I can't stand romances where one of the romantic pairing is an asshole unless there's some serious reason to believe they have learned and grown and done their best to make amends.

I really like books which use classic tropes in new ways. As a teenager in the 80s I loved "The Flame and the Flower", with an innocent heroine who finds herself married to a horrible person. That book is gross in so many ways (the "hero" rapes the heroine, but that's presented as OK, because a) he thought she was a prostitute and b) he marries her afterward ) A book with a similar premise but without the 80s grossness is tempting.