Ebooks, Books, etc

by Avid Reader on June 6, 2006

in Avid Musings

I guess Bam’s review of Bone Deep is mak­ing the rounds. I had bought the ebook a few weeks ago with no plans to read it any­time soon  but now I may have to read it sooner than I had antic­i­pated. I love the cover.

 

Blood Ties Book One: The Turning (Blood Ties)

I have maybe 40–50 ebooks right now with about two being com­pleted. Buy­ing ebooks is some­what addic­tive espe­cially if you see a title with a cool cover with an inter­est­ing back blurb. You can instantly down­load the book and take a risk. I did just that yes­ter­day after read­ing on someone’s blog about  Blood Ties Book one: The Turn­ing by Jen­nifer Armintrout (will read it soon). Yep, another series. The best thing about read­ing the ebook ver­sion of any book is that any prob­lems I had with the font is mag­i­cally not a prob­lem any­more since I get to set it myself. Good­bye to those big, goofy fonts and extra wide mar­gins. That’s what I love about ebooks and the instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion thing, too. The only other book I planned to buy was Karen Chance’s Touch the Dark and Kres­ley Cole’s If You Desire. That was it.

Any­thing that is grab­bing your eye that you hadn’t antic­i­pated to get but will? I’m hop­ing both those books will be avail­able in ebook for­mat, so I will wait a lit­tle, just to see. I’m off from work today, plan to just chill out and read.

 

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Keishon June 8, 2006 at 10:52 pm

Really? My bad. Sorry. Duck­ing outta here.

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CindyS June 8, 2006 at 2:27 pm

Keis­hon — and breathe ;)

The next Kres­ley Cole book is due out Oct 2006 accord­ing to her web­site and is called No Rest For the Wicked.

CindyS — now I’m off to breathe in a bag because you almost killed me!!

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Jane June 7, 2006 at 10:15 pm

jaq — I enjoyed If You Dare quite a bit. It’s actu­ally set in Andorra and not in Scot­land. I don’t think Keis­hon will mind if I pimp my site and the review: If You Dare

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Keishon June 7, 2006 at 8:14 pm

I put down the Karen Chance book tonight to read Bon­nie Dee’s ebook. Hope­fully, I’ll get back to it later on. I want to read Book One: The Turn­ing next.

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jaq June 7, 2006 at 5:38 pm

Crap! I actu­ally checked this book out (it was in the sci-fi/fantasy sec­tion of the book­store, not the romance) and put it down cause I was feel­ing para-fatigued.

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jaq June 7, 2006 at 5:35 pm

No apol­ogy needed, Keis­hon. I was just say­ing I had blogged about the book, chances are oth­ers blogged about it too.

The next Kres­ley Cole book in the AHLNO series doesn’t come out till April?!?!? *sob!* I’d don’t know about y’all, but it’s get­ting harder and harder to find keeper books. I checked out If You Desire. It’s a Scot­tish His­tor­i­cal Romance, right? Not feel­ing very brogue-y (heh) But a rave reveiw could change my mind.…

Now I hafta go check out that Karen Chance book.… ;-)

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Jane June 7, 2006 at 11:42 am

Read it and the review will go up this after­noon. I can’t wait to dis­cuss it.

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Keishon June 7, 2006 at 9:12 am

I just real­ized that the next Kres­ley Cole book isn’t due out till May 07, If You Desire, I think is the title. What was I think­ing? I thought it due out this month. And that’s a long time from now, too.

I started the Karen Chance book last night and couldn’t put it down.

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CindyS June 7, 2006 at 3:08 am

Yep, Bam’s review of Bone Deep is prob­a­bly the first review of an e-book that I thought, ‘damn, I need to get that’. I’m wait­ing until I move in case I end up reboot­ing the com­puter from scratch. Lost two e-books that way and I even started one and couldn’t read a book at the com­puter. I know, hand­held but, I really do need to eat ;)

Jaq — If You Desire by Cole is a his­tor­i­cal — I went and bought her back­list after A Hunger Like No Other and like Bam, I can’t wait to get the next one. I did buy Play­ing Easy to Get — an anthol­ogy that has a short story by Cole that I think was the intro­duc­tion to the world from AHLNO. Let’s just say, I very, very happy — now I’m sav­ing her other books (includ­ing IYD) so I don’t overindulge. ;)

CindyS

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Keishon June 7, 2006 at 12:21 am

Yeah, eat­ing is so over­ated these days. Any­way, thanks for the rec on Bone Deep. I am anx­ious to read it.

Jaq: was it your blog? {slaps fore­head} No won­der I couldn’t find it, I was gonna link to it because that’s why I bought it in the first place. I’d read it on your blog. Well, I’ll read it soon. Hope it’s good. I am now crack­ing open Karen Chance’s book, Touch the Dark.

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bam June 6, 2006 at 8:09 pm

ah, hell. I bought Home­bound any­way. Who needs to eat?

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bam June 6, 2006 at 7:46 pm

Hey, Keis­hon. I have pre-ordered Kres­ley Cole’s next Valkyrie/Vamp book on Ama­zon and can’t wait to get it. It’s not com­ing out till Octo­ber, though. boo! I have Karen Chance’s Touch the Dark on hand, but haven’t read it yet because I’ve been vewwy, vewwy busy with school. Ugh.

I’m think­ing of get­ting Bon­nie Dee’s other book, House Bound (or is it Home Bound), but I’m kinda broke right now, so I think I’ll wait till I have some funds. Grr. I hate being poor. :(

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jaq June 6, 2006 at 6:58 pm

That first line should be: “I *blogged* about…” :-P

Is that Kres­ley Cole book the next in series after A Hunger Like No Other? I’d be very inter­ested in buy­ing that one. Really enjoyed the AHLNO for the most part.

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jaq June 6, 2006 at 6:55 pm

I blog about Armintrout’s 2 days ago, includ­ing the link to an excerpt from the 1rst chap­ter. That’s what con­vinced me to buy it yes­ter­day (paper­back). I’ve had my nose buried in it off and on since. The author’s voice just pulls you in and the story flows nicely. So far, luvin the world build­ing and the char­ac­ters. In some ways ths book reminds me of Kelly Armstrong’s BITTEN (in terms of feel­ing very fiction-y with roman­tic sub­plot, rather than cross-genre romance.) I’m think­ing about that book BAM reviewed, but still would like to read a few more reviews. To be hon­est, I read the excerpt and the authors voice just didn’t res­onate with me. :-P

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Keishon June 6, 2006 at 2:31 pm

I was unim­pressed as well but read CW’s blog and can’t find the entry any­more but the reviews seem to be pos­i­tive. We’ll see.

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Jane June 6, 2006 at 11:36 am

Ah, the beauty of ebooks. Just went and bought it. I did read the back of it in the book­store and was unim­pressed but all the reviews say its awe­some. Will give it a try.

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Keishon June 6, 2006 at 10:04 am

Jane, dear, run to Fic­tion­wise because that’s where I bought Jen­nifer Armintrout’s book from yes­ter­day . It was added this past week. Thanks for the tip on If You Dare. Will go get that one. No chance that Ms. Chance’s book will be a ebook? Armintrout’s book is a Mira paper­back as well and I remem­ber see­ing it in the store and pass­ing on it because I didn’t care for the font.

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Jane June 6, 2006 at 9:49 am

Jen­nifer Armentrout’s book is an ebook :) I am wait­ing for it to show up at Fic­tion­wise and buy it at a dis­count. If You Dare is an ebook and is for sale at Simon­Say for 40% off, IIRC.

Karen Chance’s book is not an ebook, as far as I can see.

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Keishon June 6, 2006 at 9:46 am

OMG! Xina, are you enjoy­ing it? I hope you like it. I need to email you…

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xina June 6, 2006 at 9:42 am

What a great cover! I don’t read e-books but just ordered it in paper­back. Sounds like some­thing I’d like.
You’ll like this Keishon…I’m cur­rently read­ing Early From The Dance by David Payne. I know this is one of your favorite books. xina

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