Okay yeah fine hiatus didn’t last the month

[annathepiper]

It will probably surprise none of you that I did not actually make it to the end of this month without buying a brand new book.

However, in my own defense, I will add that the book in question was the anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, edited by jennifer_brozek, the lady who was hosting the reading I participated in this past Saturday at the Wayward. I wanted to get it not only to support her, but also because jpsorrow is in it, and I’d seen him posting about it before!

Meanwhile, here’s another drop of freebies from B&N, as this week’s round of free classics has made it into my Calibre install:

• Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
• Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
• Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf
• The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
• Nana, by Emile Zola
• Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
• O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
• The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
• Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
• Daisy Miller and Washington Square, by Henry James

Note: Vanity Fair‘s PDB file is 7.5MB?! Whoa.

Also picked this up since it showed up on B&N’s freebie queue:

• Marked, by Elisabeth Naughton. Paranormal Romance.

This brings me up to a grand total of 247 for the year!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Actually, I am surprised. I thought you'd make it. :)

[annathepiper]

I did too! But I was all OH HEY SURPRISE READING and LOOK THERE'S JOSHUA PALMATIER'S ANTHO and um, well. *^_^*;;

I am however going to be STRONG! And not buy any more books until September. But one of them will be yours!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Your freebies read like the syllabus for my long ago degree in British and American literature and history [wry g].

Have fun...

[annathepiper]

Ha, fear not, I'll be returning to newly acquired fantasy, SF, and paranormal romance soon enough. ;)

Though I suspect my next actual round of ebook purchases will be filling out the Amelia Peabodies, since the Great Reread is almost up to The Ape Who Guards the Balance!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I have all the Amelias up through Lord of the Silent in paperback and audio. I'm glad to know they're available in e versions, though!

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I have the whole series mostly in paperback--and one hardback of The Falcon at the Portal. But I've been re-buying them electronically as I can, just because the later ones came out in that annoying too-big-to-be-mass-market size of paperback and I hate those. Ebooks are easier to read!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Really? Well, I quit buying them pretty much after Children of the Storm, because I didn't like what MPM did to Ramses -- she turned him into such a fuddy-duddy! So maybe that's why I didn't notice.

I do have a mass-market-sized copy of Guardian of the Horizon, though. I don't think I've seen the trade paperbacks of any of them, not that I've gone looking or anything.

I'm not quite to the stage where I find ebooks easier to read than paper, but I do my ebook reading on a netbook, and am not up to plunking down the money for a dedicated reader. The ebooks I do own are ones that aren't available in paper, mostly from small romance epublishers.

[annathepiper]

Oh, this isn't trade paperback size I'm talking about--it's that weirdo size that's in between trade and mass market. They're the same width as mass market but they're about 3/4ths of an inch taller than a standard mass market. So they're a bit too tall for my hands to hold comfortably!

The other really annoying part of this is that they're still called mass market size, only they're more expensive than the smaller mass market size. The last few Amelia Peabodies have been in this format, as have the last couple of Dresden Files paperbacks. Grf.

So yeah, I've been starting to buy the Peabodies electronically. It does help that I have the Nook as well as my iPhone; I only read ebooks on my computer when I'm really bored or if they're in a form that the two devices can't handle well!