$4 Harlequin Code

[Sydney's Mom]

Originally Posted by Blossom

:Check out the Harlequin Treasury Temptation titles if you like Blaze. I find they are much better written then the Blaze series that took it's place.

Blossom, this was not helpful at all! I just brought those up, and there are 11 pages of books. 15 books on each page. I think I need to take a vacation from work in order to buy all these books. But at a nickel each, it would be under $10. Wow!

My husband says I will never read them all, either. I am 55, but once I retire, I figure I will read a couple a day. If I live long enough, I might do it. (Of course, I could never live long enough to knit all the yarn I have accumulated.)

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Carmelreader

Well am still unable to purchase anything. Talked to someone last evening but the ebook section was closed. Called this morning and the woman said it would be transferred to tech support. She thought that my repeated attempts to make it work had caused the problem using my cc. Still tried with another cc, same result. So, still can't play, but I must say I sure have had a good chuckle reading this thread. ADrake what did you finally select for authors? I love the three device approach to buying. That is serious stuff!

Make sure you tell them you can't access your bookshelf. That right there proves it's not a credit card issue. When it happened to me I couldn't even buy a free book which requires no credit card.

[CWatkinsNash]

Mine's been fixed! Yay!!

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom

Blossom, this was not helpful at all! I just brought those up, and there are 11 pages of books. 15 books on each page. I think I need to take a vacation from work in order to buy all these books. But at a nickel each, it would be under $10. Wow!

My husband says I will never read them all, either. I am 55, but once I retire, I figure I will read a couple a day. If I live long enough, I might do it. (Of course, I could never live long enough to knit all the yarn I have accumulated.)

Most are 49 cents a book with the coupon but well worth it.

[Sydney's Mom]

[QUOTE=Sydney's Mom;1920114]Blossom, this was not helpful at all! I just brought those up, and there are 11 pages of books. 15 books on each page. I think I need to take a vacation from work in order to buy all these books. But at a nickel each, it would be under $10. Wow!

QUOTE]

Page 1-done. This is so much easier with a mouse. I was buying these on my laptop-no more!

[MorganM]

Where is everyone finding the cheap books?!

[copyrite]

Woohoo! Back in business. And although I probably will not purchase as many as most of you I just did a search for TTQ books... always has been one of my favorite reads!

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Originally Posted by MorganM

Where is everyone finding the cheap books?!

We are using this code
SPEND4E11
to save $4 on ebooks at Harlequin.com

Valid until 1/31/12
Must spend a minimum of $4 to qualify.

And using it on individual books that are just over $4. There's a number of books that are $4.05 and a number that are $4. 49.

Makes for a whole lotta transactions on the CC!

(Because of this thread I now know where to find other romance addicts! LOL)

[MorganM]

Yeah I know about the code :P I mean the $4 books etc?

[copyrite]

I picked categories I like or by author and sorted by price.

[scoopaz]

I just bought 75 books in the space of 48 hours... and have another 60 in the wishlist.

Perhaps I should mosy over to the Ebook Buying Addicts' Support Thread... I think I may have a problem ...

Scoopa

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by Carmelreader

ATDrake what did you finally select for authors?

Well, I'm definitely picking up the Jeannie Lin because I like historical stuff in less-usual settings with swordfights.

For the Harlequin Vintages, I've settled on getting I'll Bury My Dead by James Hadley Chase as he has the best reputation of all the pulp writers (Wikipedia entry and some movies based on his works). I'll read that first and I figure if I don't like the style overall, I probably wouldn't like the rest.

The two other Vintages I've tentatively got slated are Alan Handley's Kiss Your Elbow, which had comparatively good reviews and which someone elsewhere randomly commented they found entertaining, and No Nice Girl by Perry Lindsay, which Fantastic Fiction told me was a pseudonym of a female author who also wrote more standard Harlequin romances (or maybe was a guy who wrote the romances pseudonymously and the pulps using the "real" name). I figure it'll be interesting to read to see how the pulp conventions compare to the romance conventions.

I'm skipping over the other Vintages because one's apparently got noticeably irritating sexist and racist period stereotypes in addition to bad plot and dialogue, which I'm not willing to pay to read, and another's that author self-insert where he's the hero of his badly researched story, which is the sort of thing I can read off Fanfiction.net for free.

If I like the 1st James Hadley Chase, I might pick up the other one, even though the reviews say it's not as good.

I may also browse and look at some more historicals if I can get some recommendations for good ones that put as much emphasis on the history as the romance (like Roberta Gellis' works) and have very plotty stories, and they've got settings which appeal.

But I've kind of got a list of criteria for the couples-type stuff I'd rather not see in those (e.g. nothing where the hero/heroine are made to look better by having their rivals in competition for the other person's hand-in-marriage be total despicable sociopaths who would never understand what it is to love and are only in it for baser lust/money/psychotic obsession reasons, because that's really irritating to read).

So I'll keep watching the currently ongoing recommends and sampling to get a better picture of what's out there.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by scoopaz

I just bought 75 books in the space of 48 hours... and have another 60 in the wishlist.

Perhaps I should mosy over to the Ebook Buying Addicts' Support Thread... I think I may have a problem ...

Scoopa

I am pacing myself to make it last. All the Harlequin Treasury Silhouette Desire titles are a nickle a piece.
So are the Love & Laughter & Yours Truly titles.

[Sydney's Mom]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I am pacing myself to make it last. All the Harlequin Treasury Silhouette Desire titles are a nickle a piece.
So are the Love & Laughter & Yours Truly titles.

You are evil! I just came here to announce I had finished page 2 of the temptations, and you tell me there are all these nickel books? At the very least, you are an enabler. Big time.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom

You are evil! I just came here to announce I had finished page 2 of the temptations, and you tell me there are all these nickel books? At the very least, you are an enabler. Big time.

Happy to have helped.

[Sydney's Mom]

Thanks, Blossom. Just finished page 5 of Temptation. Then I am going to search passion, and buy only $4.05. I mean, I wouldn't even pick up a nickel if I saw it on the sidewalk!

This has really helped my withdrawal from the Chicago Public Library. I won't need any new romance books, aside from what my library buys, for the rest of my life.

I got this coupon, but didn't read it carefully. I thought you had to buy 4 books to get $4 off. $1 off didn't really do much for me, because Amazon has almost that much off on a lot of them.

Well, time for bed. Actually, I am going upstairs, and downloading all these books to my laptop. Then I import them into Calibre, and there I go! I emailed the first 31 to my kindle and my fire, so I can just let the rest of them fill up my library! (Anyone who has questions about Calibre and emailing to kindle, feel free to pm me).

'Night ladies