Lil's comments (member since Apr 30, 2008)

Lil's comments from the Paranormal Romance group.

This looks awesome, can't wait to see it!

Ok, so it's not exactly a free ebook, but a free Kindle to read them on is almost as good, right?

Check it out below.

http://www.noobie.com/kindle-giveaway?re...

Any book in which the heroine or hero winds (or begins) as a ghost usually is a wall-banger for me. I have picked up a couple like that and refuse to touch those authors again.

I love the BDB and the Dark hunters. I read Acheron all the way through and though I have waited years for his story, it will likely be a cold day for Hades before I ever crack open the first part again. I love the book, don't get me wrong, but I cried all the way through the first half of it. I haven't done that since I read Jude Deveraux's Knight in Shining Armor, many years ago and while the story (both of them) end well and with a solid HEA (Go, Tori! Love the "Talk" she had with the heifer goddess), I can't take that kind of emotional wrenching again.

I have many authors who are autobuys for me. Kenyon, Ward, Jessica Andersen, Kresley Cole and too many others to name, but only those few are MUST buys and Keepers.

http://dragcave.net/user/DragnLadyBlue

Might as well post my own!

I just got the notification that I won a copy of The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden, I can't wait to read it! I entered Rowena's as well, but didn't win it. Guess I'll just have to go buy it, lol.

I guess it's hard to explain. When you buy the reader and register it, you get 10 mgs of space on their server to upload your own documents to. As far as I know that is the only way to get personal documents onto your reader. I have not tried to do it straight to my card because it is not the same size as the slot on my laptop or on my card reader, the one I usually use for my camera card.

Thanks, New_User, I usually use Esnips to upload my books to, I can keep the files private so I don't get in trouble for uploading copyrighted materials. I have 5 mgs of space on there and currently over 1000 ebooks and documents. It is free as well.

Lady Ozma wrote: "Good plan. Sometimes men need that extra hand holding. Well, I sent an email to my husband linking right to it. My birthday is in May. It's also Mother's Day. (This year it's not the same day ..."

I can upload as many documents as will fit into the 10mg personal server, but each document cannot be over 2 mgs individually. typically, I upload to my limit, download them to my ereader, then erase the files from the server. Then I can upload more to the server.

Since it's just a copy of the original file, I still have it and if I erase something off of the reader by accident, I still have it in my own files to reload it.

Yes, I did get the 64 meg one. I told my husband exactly what I wanted and even bookmarked it for him so I would get exactly the right one, lol.

Some books from Baen though are so big that I have to cut them in two because nothing you upload to your own server can be above 2 mg, though you have 10 mg of room on it.

I have a lot of PDF books as well. At this time, the ebookwise reader does not or cannot support PDFs, but I have a little program that can convert a PDF file to an RTF or doc file, which I can then upload to ebookwise and then, download (lol) to my reader. seems like a lot of steps, I know, but I'm really happy with it.

As to the memory card, I got mine with a memory card already installed, so I don't know even if a standard one would fit. It does also come with a cover, which is like a slipcover. It doesn't really look like you're looking at paper, but it hasn't hurt my eyes yet. It's a lot like looking at my Palm before I read it to death, lol, except that I can adjust the font size.

There's no color, it is grayscale, but I like it. I agree that I don't have to have color. After all, a regular book isn't in color, now is it? On Kindle and Sony you can download newspapers or magazines, so that would be a reason to have color, but I didn't get it to read newspapers or magazines, so that doesn't matter to me at all.

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 34 books on mine at the moment, everything from erotica to scifi and fantasy as well as some classics and I still have about 78% free space.

As for content, there are places to get free ebooks as well as places to buy them. Baen free library is a great place to get some older books and you can download them in many formats.

Lady Ozma wrote: "As long as there are dead tree books, I'll probably buy them! Especially from my many author friends. I gotta have them autographed, you know! LOL But I hear you can get digital ones "signed" a..."

Oh, me, too, Lady Ozma, me too, much to my husband's eternal regret. I load books onto my personal server, then when I hook my reader up through a USB cable, I can download them right onto my reader. Buying them works the same way and ebookswise/fictionwise runs some good specials. Cost was a HUGE issue for me as well, I was thinking about getting the Sony but the $300 price tag (not including memory) really put me off of it, whereas mine I got with a memory card for $150 total.

I personally like the way it feels. When I hold it it has a feel like a book with the cover bent bacwards in my left hand (not that I would ever do that to a real book). I can't do wifi access, but I really don't mind that.
The Kindle and the Sony readers I don't think come with backlights. I like the fact that mine has one. It means that I can read in the dark or low light.

I personally, recommend it. But that's just me.

Lady Ozma wrote: "There is that. I want an ebook reader. We do a LOT of ebooks in our house as well as dead tree versions. a laptop is just not quite as comfortable as an ebook reader!"

I got an ebook reader for Christmas and I love it. I got the one from Ebookwise. It was 1/2 the cost of a sony or Kindle (about $150, but they have it on sale right now, too, so it could be cheaper.) I don't have to email my own books to it and I can load anything as long as it's in a doc or rtf format.

It hasn't, however, stopped me from buying dead tree books, though, lol, I still and always will love the feel of the pages, the smell of the paper. I'm just able to take about 100 books with me and don't have to stay tied to my laptop or desktop to read them. Usually, I buy the ebooks that I wouldn't buy the paperbacks of, non-favorites, but authors I still want to read.

Anyone coming to Florida other than Orlando?

Lori wrote: "Lora Leigh is giving away (in PDF form) a free novella in her Elite Ops series. Go to this page to sigh up to receive it in Feb 2009.


http://www.loraleigh.com/excerpts/stmfre...

Lori2"

Thank you for the heads up! Lora's books are fabulous!

I liked the Dara Joy series, "Mine To Take" is the only one I didn't really get into for some reason. Love Angela Knight and J.D. Robb, and many many others, lol, I'm a baaaaaaaad girl when it comes to books!

Me, too, lol!

I think it will be six months, but don't quote me, lol, I'm not 100% sure.

I usually buy from a used book store anyway, so no, it really hasn't taken a bite out. I do buy some authors new, at least until they hit hardback, lol, like J.R. Ward is doing with her next book. I know it's not her decision, but that is probably one I will buy from Amazon used, simply because I can't afford to buy it new and don't want to wait until it comes out in pb.

Lil

I have probably close to 1000 books. I don't want to give them up and there is just something soothing about holding a book in my hands to read, the feel of the paper, the scent of fresh ink, or even old ink (I buy the majority of my books used), so no matter what I do, I'll a;ways buy books.
However, I do read ebooks as well, I probably have 1000 of those, too, lol. I currently read them on an older Palm IIIX which I bought on ebay for about $10. I've about worn it out now and can't see the pixels very well any more.
i saw a Sony E-Reader in Borders one day and though the price is about $300 that's what I've asked for for Christmas this year. It'll never replace my "real" books, but I definitely want one now.

This sounds great!

Lil

I have to agree, I love the Immortals' series she's taken legends and lore outside of vamps and weres and combined them into a whole that just leaves me wanting more. I love the covers and the names as well, unique and different which is what I look for.

Lil