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Ebooks!
I am starting to load up the Kindle for my upcoming trip* and am looking for recommendations for inexpensive or free ebooks. Inexpensive means in the $5 range, but I'm willing to go up to $10 if it looks interesting (*coughKateElliottColdMagiccough*). Or, free. Free is good, a la Project Gutenberg, etc.
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estara, I meant to tell you I read Happy Snak from your last rec. :) It wasn't my favorite book in the world, but it kept me reading to the end, which is increasingly rare in these days since I have attention problems. Thanks!)
I'm not going to list any restrictions here, and say fiction, nonfiction, it's all good. Just let me know stuff you like. :)
Thanks!
ETA: Oh yes, meant to post this: I've been through the Baen Free Library, my library doesn't loan ebooks, and I've got ARCs from NetGalley already. Rest assured, I'll be poking through Project Gutenberg and the various free classics on my own ... what I'm looking for is recommendations of specific books as a way to narrow my search, not just "Try this site!"
* And therefore will read only one or two of the books on it during the trip, but that's the way things go.
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estara, I meant to tell you I read Happy Snak from your last rec. :) It wasn't my favorite book in the world, but it kept me reading to the end, which is increasingly rare in these days since I have attention problems. Thanks!)I'm not going to list any restrictions here, and say fiction, nonfiction, it's all good. Just let me know stuff you like. :)
Thanks!
ETA: Oh yes, meant to post this: I've been through the Baen Free Library, my library doesn't loan ebooks, and I've got ARCs from NetGalley already. Rest assured, I'll be poking through Project Gutenberg and the various free classics on my own ... what I'm looking for is recommendations of specific books as a way to narrow my search, not just "Try this site!"
* And therefore will read only one or two of the books on it during the trip, but that's the way things go.
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but I have to clear up my $2.38 fine before I can indulge, but no digital print. :(no subject
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(And we ended up with a bunch of books we didn't expect when we bought a package from one of the ebook vendors - if you go to library.tcu.edu and search for "love spell" in quotation marks, and scroll down the list, you'll see what we didn't expect. XD)
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Amazon has several of Jenny Crusie's books for cheap. Bet Me (http://www.amazon.com/Bet-Me-ebook/dp/B000FC1A8O/) is $3, Strange Bedpersons under $2 (http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Bedpersons-ebook/dp/B002WEPC3C/) (although I don't think it's one of her better ones), and most of the others right at $5. Anyone But You (http://www.amazon.com/Anyone-But-You-ebook/dp/B001E28LVS/) is one of my favorites -- a flu/PMS/bad-day comfort read.
I just noticed that you can get The Black Moth (http://www.amazon.com/Black-Moth-romance-classic-ebook/dp/B002JPJ0IC/) for $1, although WTF were they thinking with that cover? I'm buying it, but I'm also using Calibre to put the lovely Arrow cover art on it.
I must take the opportunity to shill for Feed (http://www.amazon.com/Feed-ebook/dp/B003GFIVSE/) as loudly as I can. Best book I've read all year.
Several Small Beer Press books (http://smallbeerpress.com/creative-commons/) are available free. There's a free sampler from the anthology By Blood We Live (http://www.johnjosephadams.com/by-blood-we-live/?p=53).
Omnibus editions can be bargains. You can get a discount on the first three Temeraire books (http://www.amazon.com/In-His-Majestys-Service-ebook/dp/B002T18VD6/) that way, for example. Same for Pern (http://www.amazon.com/The-Dragonriders-of-Pern-ebook/dp/B000RH0E70/).
Hmph. Looks like no one's gotten around to negotiating ebook rights for the Aubrey/Maturin series. It'd be nice to have that whole set in electrons rather than several feet of shelf space.
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Some suggestions for links to people who do excellent self&co-op-published ebooks (not vanity published) - the problem is that only one of these authors I've read in self-published form hasn't first appeared in print at one of the big houses (they're also mostly not romance authors:
- Ann Somerville and her Darshian Tales (I'm getting into her Samhain series now as well) at Smashwords (brilliant epic fantasy, with m/m that is simply part of the story and not used for cheap thrills). Actually, I think you can read all of the Darshian Tales for free on her website (where I Highly recommend reading A Fluffy Tale, which is now also available at Smashwords), but they're LONG! - and good. I wrote a review (with spoilers) and imported it into GoodReads.com about Kei's Gift, which is the first one.
- Book View Café: loads of previously published sf&f authors collectively offering backlist novels and newly written anthologies in ebook form (Sherwood Smith will join soon, yay!) - reads like a who's who of (mostly) female sf writing (they even have Ursula LeGuin in there - although only as a comic author/artist) ^^ - they've just released a collective short story backlist anthology and in December there'll be a steampunk anthology with all new short stories. You can also read many of the novels in serial instalments free on their site.
- Closed Circle (whenever they master Joomla and have converted all their backlist books). Jane S. Fancher has just released a totally new book in her RingDancer series.
C. J. Cherryh
Jane Fancher
Lynn Abbey
- Inkalicious where Michele Jerott Albert is selling five of her out-of-print romance suspense novels as ebooks and you get the first one completely free (which is why I discovered her). Her hero is a male stripper in this one ^^
- Welcome to the Further Adventures Of… - short stories about the heros of her DelRey fantasy books by Barbara Hambly ($5 per story - very short excerpts are up, no word count number or file format mentioned, three of the four ones uploaded so far have been previously published). She's planning on writing and releasing new ones if the demand is there.
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I bought the more traditional second book, Stay, first and was quite fascinated - it worked as a romance but included topics such as the beliefs of Ayn Rand and Mormonism which were completely outside my knowledge zone.
The first book, The Proviso, was a really dark family saga a la Dynasty/Dallas but with a core of fascinating couples who had to work their way toward a happy end, which they did get. Only one irredeemable villain by the way, which I thought pretty cool.
Or there's suddenly a review from trusted Book Bloggers which will make me develop interest in a self-published book. The Book Smugglers reviewed Michael Hicks In Her Name and now I own the Smashwords edition of the first book in the trilogy.
Additionally (if back-list titles are allowed, too) at Smashwords
- Diane Duane's Tale of the Five fantasy series (lots of poly romance involved as well)
- Backlist of Sherwood Smith (fantasy and romance),Backlist of Judith Tarr(fantasy), of Sarah Zettel (fantasy romance), Maya Kathryn Bonhoff (fantasy), Steven Harper (sf&f) => basically all the Book View Café releases not just available there but also at Smashwords
- Backlist of Patricia Ryan/ P.B. Ryan (historical romance/mystery)
All these ebooks are drm-free. All great value for the money spent.
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