Yeah yeah yeah raise your hand if you’re surprised

[annathepiper]

I got more ebooks. ;) Though in this particular case, aside from the previously promised new Temeraire novel, all of these are actually replacing print books I’d previously owned. So there’s not much actual gain on the To Read shelves–and the hiatus of buying brand new books is still kind of on. Anyhow, here’s the rundown:

• In the Bleak Midwinter and A Fountain Filled With Blood, by Julia Spencer-Fleming. Mystery. Y’all may recall that I had previously acquired these as free PDFs, and I liked them well enough that I wanted to actually buy copies. So this is me officially adding them to my purchased library. I’ll swing back in a bit and get more of this series, since I want to know where it goes.
• The Smoke Thief and The Dream Thief, by Shana Abe. Historical/paranormal romance.
• Death is Forever, by Elizabeth Lowell. Romantic Suspense. One of the Lowells I like better than most.
• And last and very, very definitely not least, Tongues of Serpents, by Naomi Novik! Fantasy, sixth in the Temeraire series, and I’m thinking this is what I’m going to read next now that I’m done with Jim Hines!

Thus the year’s total comes up to 195.

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*hand* I'm surprised... that you'd get rid of print books and then later re-buy them in ebook... or do I misunderstand? Or is the thinking "this wasn't good enough to waste shelf space and trees on but if I can have it in bits, that's ok?"

[annathepiper]

Correct, I've been getting rid of quite a few of my print books and have been spreading out replacing them electronically over the last many months. And your latter guess is pretty much it; I'm doing this swap for stuff I didn't like well enough to keep print copies of, but which I liked for light reading.

The genres I'm most likely to do this for are romance and romantic suspense, since those are the ones with either a) covers that annoy me, b) authors with long-established careers that they have HUGE numbers of books, possibly in long-running series. Some urban fantasy I'm doing this for as well, just because urban fantasy series can often go upwards of six books and they chomp up a lot of shelf space too.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*nods* or like for say, Piers Anthony or Darkover (dunno if either of those are relevant to your interests but they *are* long running...)

[annathepiper]

I don't read Anthony at all, nor have I ever read any Darkover. But that's the sort of length that I'd be looking at for print->ebook swap, yeah.

(Although for non-urban fantasy as well as SF, that'd be more likely to actually stay on my shelves. New fantasy or SF series, though, I'm defaulting to looking for ebooks unless they're by authors I already know and like.)