Ebook Buying Addicts' Brag Thread

anamardoll · 07-20-2011, 04:15 PM

OK, guys, this is for bragging what you've bought recently when falling off the wagon.

Just remember the pdurrant can see you, so NO FIBBING back in the support thread.

pdurrant · 07-20-2011, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anamardoll

OK, guys, this is for bragging what you've bought recently when falling off the wagon.

Nice. And yes, I'll be watching!

The last time I bought ebooks it was a whole bunch by Diane Duane from her own ebook store. All the Young Wizard Novels (9) and three novells and a shorter work set in her Middle Kingdom universe.

I highly recommend the Young Wizard series to anyone who likes fantasy. And they're nothing like Harry Potter, except that both involve young people who are called wizards. They also pre-date Harry Potter by a couple of decades.

Start with So You Want To Be A Wizard?.

AlbertaCowboy · 07-20-2011, 04:34 PM

Ha! Love it! Here goes:

North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters »By Captain Sig Hansen, Mark Sundeen

The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea »By Philip Hoare

Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us »By Alexandra Morton

Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country »By John Furlong Gary Mason

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom »By Slavomir Rawicz

It's July 20th. Not buying any more books until I have read another 50 books in my TBR list.

redbees · 07-20-2011, 04:44 PM

anamardoll,

Yes, as a matter of fact I *am* very eager to hear what you bought at Amazon's Big Deal sale! I admit to haunting the support thread both in an effort to refrain from buying, and because you addicts often mention good books and sales. So, please TELL US!

Also, I think I may just possibly need to join in over on the addicts' support thread, sometime in the future. (Like after I buy some books at Amazon as sort of a last hurrah.) Not that I'm addicted, or anything like that.

DMB · 07-20-2011, 05:08 PM

Chris Stringer: The Origin of our Species

Iain Pears: An instance of the Fingerpost

Virginia Nicholson: Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

John Connor: Phoenix (New Blood)

HomeInMyShoes · 07-20-2011, 05:09 PM

^^It's only a problem when the pile of purchased TBRs means you have more than a year worth of reading.

I bought Terry Pratchett's Thud! on June 10th, 2011

Current unread purchased pages: 749
Current value of unread pages: $11.39
Estimated completion date: October 2, 2011

pidgeon92 · 07-20-2011, 05:54 PM

Lessee.... I bought a few where the price had gone way done, a couple with swagbucks Amazon GCs, and several with $80 in Amazon GCs that I got for selling my nook.....

Commencement by Sullivan, J. Courtney
Our Tragic Universe by Thomas, Scarlett
When We Were Saints by Nolan, Han
The Calling by Wolfe, Inger Ash
Royko in Love: Mike's Letters to Carol by Royko, Mike
Full Dark, No Stars by King, Stephen
The Taken: A Hazel Micallef Mystery by Wolfe, Inger Ash
Grange House: A Novel by Blake, Sarah
A Curtain Falls by Pintoff, Stefanie
Pandemic by Kalla, Daniel
Room: A Novel by Donoghue, Emma (finally hit $9.99)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Riggs, Ransom
The Devil's Star by Nesbo, Jo
The Scavenger's Daughter: A Tyler West Mystery by McIntyre, Mike

These were all purchased in the last 6 days.....

HomeInMyShoes · 07-20-2011, 05:59 PM

^That would be a problem. I was going to ask what you thought of Our Tragic Universe, but you probably haven't gotten around to it yet.

anamardoll · 07-20-2011, 06:00 PM

From the Amazon Big Sale, I got:

Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
Practical Protection Magick: Guarding & Reclaiming Your Power
Raw Food
The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere
The Nuremberg Trial
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
Longitude
Dragon Slippers
Simpler Living: A Back to Basics Guide to Cleaning, Furnishing, Storing...
The Art of Extreme Self-Care
Chosen Ones (Aedyn Chronicles)
Your Movie Sucks
Saint Training
Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings
In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000
Brigitta of the White Forest
Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire
Murder Takes The Cake
The Tassajara Bread Book
Buffy Meets the Academy
The Twilight Mystique
Android Karenina
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
Ex-Gay No Way
The Psychology of Harry Potter
The Meowmorphosis
Starlighter (Dragons of Starlight)
Magical Housekeeping
Wicca for Beginners
The Girl Who Was on Fire
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Incredible Origins of the Onyx Sun
Holy Bible (NIV)

And from B&N (for the same prices as Amazon):

Poison
Lockdown
Demigods and Monsters
The Borgia Bride
Bridge to Terabithia
Murder of a Medici Princess

HomeInMyShoes · 07-20-2011, 06:29 PM

In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000

I might have to look at this one.

kennyc · 07-20-2011, 07:03 PM

Dang it you guys! You are just forcing me to buy more books!!!

Elfwreck · 07-20-2011, 07:09 PM

I bought a cluster at Fictionwise a couple of weeks ago when they had a 60% off coupon, but nothing since. (I haven't finished reading those. And besides, Wowio has that free-PDF thing going on.) A bit before that, I bought Murphy's Rules for my daughter. (Non-novels don't get the $6 limit, but I'm still not dealing with DRM.)

JSWolf · 07-20-2011, 09:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Nice. And yes, I'll be watching!

The last time I bought ebooks it was a whole bunch by Diane Duane from her own ebook store. All the Young Wizard Novels (9) and three novells and a shorter work set in her Middle Kingdom universe.

I highly recommend the Young Wizard series to anyone who likes fantasy. And they're nothing like Harry Potter, except that both involve young people who are called wizards. They also pre-date Harry Potter by a couple of decades.

Start with So You Want To Be A Wizard?.

I just bought So You Want to be a Wizard and I took a look at the code and it's awful. There no CSS file and the mess in each XML file is really bad (that;s being nice). Take a look and you'll see how bad it is. I wanted to change the font, change the margins and change the indent. But this would require a total start from scratch. I'm seriously thinking of asking for my money back it's that bad. It's made from MS Word and edited in Sigil. But whoever did the editing needs to go to school to learn proper CSS/XML. My time is worth more then the work needed to get this fixed.

This does bring up one issue in Sigil. Sigil should complain if there is no CSS.

jgaiser · 07-20-2011, 10:08 PM

Wagon?? What wagon?? I didn't see any wagon..

amward · 07-21-2011, 04:13 AM

Well I just bought a new Sony reader with, wait for it... over 600 books on it! The young man in the shop said I'll just put a few books on it for you, don't know what his definition of "a lot" would be. I'm not asking where they came from.

I think I win.

07-20-2011, 04:15 PM	#1
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	Ebook Buying Addicts' Brag Thread OK, guys, this is for bragging what you've bought recently when falling off the wagon. Just remember the pdurrant can see you, so NO FIBBING back in the support thread.

07-20-2011, 04:34 PM	#3
AlbertaCowboy Guru Posts: 819 Karma: 171672846 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Alberta, Canada Device: PRS-350, PRS-650, iPhone 6, NVIDIA Shield K1	Ha! Love it! Here goes: North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters »By Captain Sig Hansen, Mark Sundeen The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea »By Philip Hoare Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us »By Alexandra Morton Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country »By John Furlong Gary Mason The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom »By Slavomir Rawicz It's July 20th. Not buying any more books until I have read another 50 books in my TBR list. Last edited by AlbertaCowboy; 07-20-2011 at 04:40 PM.

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redbees Enthusiast Posts: 128 Karma: 52196 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: US Device: Paperwhite 2, Nexus 7	anamardoll, Yes, as a matter of fact I am very eager to hear what you bought at Amazon's Big Deal sale! I admit to haunting the support thread both in an effort to refrain from buying, and because you addicts often mention good books and sales. So, please TELL US! Also, I think I may just possibly need to join in over on the addicts' support thread, sometime in the future. (Like after I buy some books at Amazon as sort of a last hurrah.) Not that I'm addicted, or anything like that.

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07-20-2011, 05:09 PM	#6
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	^^It's only a problem when the pile of purchased TBRs means you have more than a year worth of reading. I bought Terry Pratchett's Thud! on June 10th, 2011 Current unread purchased pages: 749 Current value of unread pages: $11.39 Estimated completion date: October 2, 2011

07-20-2011, 05:54 PM	#7
pidgeon92 Wizard Posts: 3,144 Karma: 8426142 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Chicago, IL Device: Kindle PW2, Kindle Voyage, Kindle DXG, Boox M90, Kobo Aura HD	Lessee.... I bought a few where the price had gone way done, a couple with swagbucks Amazon GCs, and several with $80 in Amazon GCs that I got for selling my nook..... Commencement by Sullivan, J. Courtney Our Tragic Universe by Thomas, Scarlett When We Were Saints by Nolan, Han The Calling by Wolfe, Inger Ash Royko in Love: Mike's Letters to Carol by Royko, Mike Full Dark, No Stars by King, Stephen The Taken: A Hazel Micallef Mystery by Wolfe, Inger Ash Grange House: A Novel by Blake, Sarah A Curtain Falls by Pintoff, Stefanie Pandemic by Kalla, Daniel Room: A Novel by Donoghue, Emma (finally hit $9.99) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Riggs, Ransom The Devil's Star by Nesbo, Jo The Scavenger's Daughter: A Tyler West Mystery by McIntyre, Mike These were all purchased in the last 6 days.....

07-20-2011, 05:59 PM	#8
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	^That would be a problem. I was going to ask what you thought of Our Tragic Universe, but you probably haven't gotten around to it yet.

07-20-2011, 06:00 PM	#9
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	From the Amazon Big Sale, I got: Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way Practical Protection Magick: Guarding & Reclaiming Your Power Raw Food The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere The Nuremberg Trial Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down Longitude Dragon Slippers Simpler Living: A Back to Basics Guide to Cleaning, Furnishing, Storing... The Art of Extreme Self-Care Chosen Ones (Aedyn Chronicles) Your Movie Sucks Saint Training Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000 Brigitta of the White Forest Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire Murder Takes The Cake The Tassajara Bread Book Buffy Meets the Academy The Twilight Mystique Android Karenina Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls Ex-Gay No Way The Psychology of Harry Potter The Meowmorphosis Starlighter (Dragons of Starlight) Magical Housekeeping Wicca for Beginners The Girl Who Was on Fire The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake The Incredible Origins of the Onyx Sun Holy Bible (NIV) And from B&N (for the same prices as Amazon): Poison Lockdown Demigods and Monsters The Borgia Bride Bridge to Terabithia Murder of a Medici Princess

07-20-2011, 06:29 PM	#10
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000 I might have to look at this one.

07-20-2011, 07:03 PM	#11
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,891 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Dang it you guys! You are just forcing me to buy more books!!!

07-20-2011, 07:09 PM	#12
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,187 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	I bought a cluster at Fictionwise a couple of weeks ago when they had a 60% off coupon, but nothing since. (I haven't finished reading those. And besides, Wowio has that free-PDF thing going on.) A bit before that, I bought Murphy's Rules for my daughter. (Non-novels don't get the $6 limit, but I'm still not dealing with DRM.)

07-20-2011, 10:08 PM	#14
jgaiser Omnivorous Posts: 3,283 Karma: 27978909 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Rural NW Oregon Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle 3, KPW1	Wagon?? What wagon?? I didn't see any wagon..

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07-21-2011, 04:13 AM	#15
amward Wizard Posts: 1,299 Karma: 2081110 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: SW Australia Device: Eco Eclipse, Sony PRS 350 (pink), Ipod Touch, Kindle Touch	Well I just bought a new Sony reader with, wait for it... over 600 books on it! The young man in the shop said I'll just put a few books on it for you, don't know what his definition of "a lot" would be. I'm not asking where they came from. I think I win.