The oh HEY I have a whole new ereader book roundup

[annathepiper]

But this is not to say I haven’t bought books lately in print as well, because I have!

Picked up in print from Third Place:

• Cold Days by Jim Butcher, which I have of course already read, but I hadn’t yet picked up my paperback copy to add to my collection. Because oh my YES Mr. Butcher is on the “must have both electronically and in print in case of zombie apocalypse and OHNOEZ NO MORE ELECTRICITY” list.
• The Inexplicables, by Cherie Priest. The latest one in her Clockwork Century series–looking forward to this one since it takes the action back to steampunky, zombie-infested Seattle!

Meanwhile, as I have posted about earlier, I’ve picked up a Kobo Mini in my effort to start shifting my ebook purchases over to support Third Place. A big part of this is motivated by the desire to support said store, though there’s a considerable amount here as well of being disgruntled with Barnes and Nobles’ customer service. I’ve never had any particular issues with the Nook as a device; the hardware is lovely and the current edition of the software on mine is simple and doesn’t screw up what I want it to do, i.e., let me read books. But I’ve never been happy with B&N’s customer support, especially in regards to supporting Mac users.

(The Nook desktop app is still broken on Mountain Lion, for example, and I’ve never heard yet if they’re planning to bother to fix it any time in the next few years. Every time I google about it, I see a whole bunch of cranky Mac users posting to the B&N forums.)

So yeah. That I can support Third Place now with my purchases is lovely and from what I’ve seen so far, responsive customer support on Kobo’s part is bonus. These things together have combined to get several shiny new ebooks showing up on my shiny new Kobo Mini, several of which have been on the Rebuy list for a while. But not all!

So, picked up from Third Place/Kobo:

• The Duchess War, by Courtney Milan. Grabbing this one because I’ve quite liked her historical romances, and this one’s starting a whole new series. ALSO, Kobo’s selling it for real cheap right now, but if you act super-fast, i.e., by the 20th, you can use a coupon to knock 50% off the price. How shiny is that? Thank you, Smart Bitches Trashy Books!
• The Wounded Sky, by Diane Duane. Because this is one of my favorite Star Trek novels from the first big run of them. We have a physical copy in our library but I wanted an ebook too.
• Strangers from the Sky, by Margaret Wander Bonanno. Another Trek novel. This is one I’d actually grabbed a German edition of when I’d grabbed a compilation from the Kobo set, one which included Vonda McIntyre’s Enterprise: The First Adventure–so I wanted the original English edition of this too!
• Murder with Peacocks and Murder with Puffins, by Donna Andrews. These are rebuys, the first two books of her Meg Lanslow series. Decided I wanted them back in ebook form.

But–it’s important to note that I’m not actually going to bail entirely on my B&N account for now. For organizational purposes, if I started buying a series on B&N, I’m going to continue to do so. Like, say:

• Victory of Eagles, by Naomi Novik. This is book five of the Temeraire series. Which I did actually already own in hardback, so I clearly needed an ebook copy! Once I finish doing some beta reading for kisanthe, I’m going to jump back into my mad dash through the rest of this series, prepping for Book 8 to drop this summer!

Total of 11 for the year, so far.

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Comments

[latheos.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting about your e-reader experiences! Robbie's been borrowing a first-gen Kindle for months, but really7 rarely uses it. I can't stand the thing, myself; the lack of touch screen functionality alone is enough to drive me bonkers. What I've seen of the Nook hasn't really impressed me all that much. I currently have a Chinese knock-off tablet that I mostly use as an e-reader, but it has the battery life of a mayfly and tends to try and brick itself occasionally. Right now pretty wife is doing most of her ebook reading with her phone, which, while she seems to be fine with this, strikes me as pretty silly since the screen real estate doesn't give her much.

So I'm thinking that I'm going to have to run over to Third Place and pick up a Mini, since the price is pretty cheap. If she/we like it enough, maybe we'll splurge on the high-end Kobo for the Android goodness when we can actually afford it. In the meantime, though, it would give me a fair amount of pleasure to surprise her with a good ereader that's better than her phone. (She rarely reads LJ anymore, so I feel safe she won't spot this comment. ;-)

[annathepiper]

You are very welcome! And hee, your secret is safe with me. ;D

I'll read ebooks on my iPhone in a pinch, but yeah, I found that kind of annoying on my previous phone due to lack of screen space. It's a little less annoying on my current phone with the screen being taller. But still, that gives you more like a paragraph and a half than a paragraph, to wit, not much!

[latheos.livejournal.com]

Pretty wife now has a shiny new KoboGlo (I splurged and got her the one with the extended memory slot). I picked up a Mini for me, mostly for taking to the VA, since it'll fit nicely in my notepad case (which also fits nicely into a kilt pocket).

It's all your fault.

Be proud of this. :-D

[annathepiper]

*cheers!* My work here is done. :D

Enjoy the shiny new toys!