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I loved my sojourns to the bathroom to escape. Ah, the secret hideaways for books the family never knew.
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I think we can all agree that as readers we share all the traits people have listed here in this thread. Maybe not all at once, but I can certainly relate to them. And when we add our own idiosyncracies we fail at the complete picture.
Anne wrote: " I am a reader 1st and foremost. I can remember reading the paper at breakfast always, and when I finished if i was still eating, or drinking my coffee, I was not past the reading on cereal boxes. Books or e-books as long as I can read I am happy. "I am totally with you in this, Anne.
Dawn just posted this in the Random Thoughts thread. Thought I might post it here too. :-) Cool Idea of the Day: Amazon Amnesty
In a campaign aimed to help "people to understand what Amazon is doing and make an informed choice to have choice," Pages & Pages Booksellers, in Mosman, Australia, just north of Sydney, is offering what it calls a "Kindle amnesty." On the third Saturday of every month, customers who purchase a BeBook e-reading device from the store and trade in a Kindle at the same time, will receive a $50 gift voucher. photo: Mosman Daily
In the announcement, general manager Jon Page, who is also president of the Australian Booksellers Association, noted that in Australia, Amazon has more than 65% of the e-book market and more than 75% of e-reading devices. "Kindle has become the default term for an e-reader but most readers don't understand that it is an Amazon product and there are other, better, reading devices on the market." They also don't understand that "the Kindle locks them into buying from Amazon only. Amazon limits readers' choices and walls them into their garden. But you don't have to be."
By contrast, Pages & Pages sells e-books and e-readers that work on "any tablet or smart phone as well as all other non-Kindle e-readers like the Sony eReader or Kobo device…. Come in for a demonstration. Pages & Pages are also happy to set up any device for e-reading. Unlike Amazon, Pages & Pages can give face-to-face customer service and advice. There is also a bin in store for old Kindles."
Unlike Amazon, Pages & Pages, he said, also "support local schools, pay taxes in Australia, employ local people, give Mosman Village character, respect readers privacy, none of which Amazon does."
Page said, too, that e-books are "not a threat to physical bookshops. This new format presents bookshops and readers with many wonderful opportunities to sell and read more books. What does threaten bookshops is a company who engages in uncompetitive behaviour, pays no tax in Australia and misleads readers with restrictive devices and fake book reviews."
Hurray for Pages & Pages. Once again, the BIG middle finger to amazon! Bulls On Parade.
haha. I hope it is a success for this bookshop. ;)
I was reading this story this morning about Tor Books (the fantasy/sci fi arm of Pan McMillan) being DRM Free.__________________________________________________
Tor Books: piracy not an issue despite lacking ebook DRM
http://www.cnet.com.au/tor-books-pira...
By Nic Healey | May 6, 2013 |
Nic Healey can usually be found on a couch muttering about aspect ratios and 7.1 channel sound - which is helpful given that he's the home entertainment guy at CNET.
One year after Tor launched its DRM-free store, the publisher has said that there has been "no discernible increase" in piracy.
In April last year, Tor Books, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Pan Macmillan, announced that it would be removing Digital Rights Management software from the digital editions of its books. It was a controversial move, and one that worried other publishers.
At the time, president and publisher of the US Tor range, Tom Doherty said that the company felt that DRM was a detriment to its readers:
They're a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased ebooks in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.
Now, roughly a year later, Tor has published a blog post saying categorically that it has "seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles".
When it announced the decision, Tor said that it was a move that both its authors and readers felt passionately about. In its recent update, it reiterated the support from its authors:
Tor: All of our authors, including bestsellers such as Peter F Hamilton and China Miéville, were incredibly supportive when we asked them to consider removing DRM from their titles. All of them signing up without hesitation to a scheme which would allow their readers greater freedom with their novels.
Tor said that the experience has been "hugely positive", and that it plans to continue to publish its titles DRM-free.
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Here is the original Tor blog post link; http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/04/tor-...
Good for Tor. I've always liked them anyway but it's nice to see that they are listening to their customers. And their customers are respecting that too.
I agree. Good for them, and it is nice to hear that their experiment has so far had positive results.
I meant to say thanks for the news, too. I didn't know about this. Always liked Tor myself.
Paperbacks fight back on Australian airline Qantas.I wonder if other airlines around the world are going to trial this too?
Qantas creating books that match the flight times
AFP
May 17, 2013 10:09AM
http://www.news.com.au/travel/austral...
IF you're sick of half read books you can't finish during a flight, Qantas has come up with a solution designed to fill your reading time perfectly.
The airline is launching a series of specially written books that can be read from start to finish within the duration of a specific flight.
Written in collaboration with publisher Hachette, the "tray-table tomes" are aimed at its frequent flyers - most often business travellers. It hopes to lure passengers away from their e-readers such as the Kindle to rediscover the pleasures of thumbing a good paperback novel.
Their target audience? The Qantas Platinum Flyer, which is most often a male business man. That means books are predominantly non-fiction, thrillers and crime-based short stories, written to match the flight time of each route.
The average reader consumes between 200 to 300 words a minute which is equal to about a page per minute, according to partner and ad agency Droga5 Sydney’s David Nobay.
Book covers are designed by award-winning art director Paul Bedford who has worked on The Economist, Sony Playstation and Waterstones, and include forwards from the airline.
Meanwhile, Time magazine has come up with its list of "airport books", a genre of easy-reading novels and reads to pass away the passive flying time including Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love.
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I looked up that Time magazine list of Top Ten Airport reads and these are they:
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
The Broker, John Grisham
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
State of Fear, Michael Crichton
I guess that explains why I can never find a book I want in the airport bookstores. Me and the male business man don't see eye to eye. :)
It's not like most airports have comprehensive bookshops. Sometimes one is limited by whatever few books are available for purchase.Although, I've never walked into an airport without an arsenal of books with me, so it's never been issue.
They are mostly about a top 25 selection and about 100 different magazines. But the Gatwick airport has a WHSmiths which has a good selection. I occasionally run out of books while on vacation and have to find one for the flight home.
Halifax airport has a Relay bookshop which is pretty good too. Found some unique titles there; it's where I first saw the William Napier series, among others. Glasgow airport is also pretty good, I'm not sure what company that is, but they sell local authors too.
Maybe it's just a British thing because I'm pretty sure the train stations there have pretty good bookstores too.
I thought this might be of interest. Wonder if it will start a trend.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/bo...
Darcy wrote: "I thought this might be of interest. Wonder if it will start a trend.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/bo......"
Be interesting to see whether he does or not. Sales of ebooks are still tiny, which is perhaps a sign of how many are copied and downloaded for free from pirate sites and other thieves. Certainly supporting the physical book trade is a very good idea.
Good on you Stephen King!
He's the real deal. When I lived near him in Maine he bought an AM radio station, 24 hours commercial free, 50's and 60's music (think
) and gave the call letters WZON (after
. Very public figure...grocery stores, cinemas, library...would see him everywhere. His house has a wrought iron fence depicting spiders and bats and Halloween night at his house was always an adventure.
Bobby wrote: "He's the real deal. When I lived near him in Maine he bought an AM radio station, 24 hours commercial free, 50's and 60's music (think ) and gave the call letters WZON (a..."Does he still have the Radio Station and run it that way? What a character hey.
I don't think so Terri...it was a phase he was in. I know he let the staff that was there before he went commercial-free go but a handsome severance pay for all...something like 2 years pay! I moved from there in 1991. But since I did several interviews with him at his "secret" offices, he would let me drop off 3 or 4 books for him to sign for people at Christmastime as long as I kept his secret. You bet I did...great gifts for about 5 years.
...and a great story to tell all of us bookie types forever more. Thanks for sharing your Stephen King story. :-)
Around 1991 he donated 1 million dollars to the town of Bangor to build a lighted Little League field appropriately named "Field of Dreams". He did this the year after his son's playing days were over so people wouldn't think he built it just for his son's team. Ironically, I down-loaded his son, Joe Hill's, latest novel
last week. He is really a regular guy and shares the wealth.
Terri wrote: "Amish romance? Lol. I like to stay pretty up to date with all the genres and sub genres...but Amish Romance slipped passed me. :-)"Actually, Amish romances have been around for decades - though they were G and PG rated.
Richard wrote: "I rarely read the blurb on the back of a book. I want the whole thing to be a surprise."Not to mention that sometimes a blurb can reveal a crucial part of a mystery story.
I've bought the Nook Simple Touch, as I'm in the UK it is on sale at the moment for £29, absolute bargain, anyone in the UK looking for an eReader, the Nook Glowlight is also on offer but at £69 which is still pretty damn cheap! Part of the 'Get London reading' campaign yet it doesn't matter where you are in the UK. :) Happy reading. (Just read this back and I sound exactly like some sort of saleswoman, I'm not I just thought it was a really good deal, especially for someone like me, because when reading about the Kindle I get reviews from unhappy customers saying they pay a lot of money and breaks rather quickly and easily.) Oh and Kobo is available in the UK, WHSmith sell them now.
I love WHSmith. Probably because they remind me of traveling, they're in every train station and airport I've been to in the UK. Nice to know they sell the Kobo now.
We had a WHSmith in my hometown. I think Chapters ate it for lunch one day though, because it's gone now.
Barnes & Noble ate almost every indie bookstore for lunch in New York City, and now they themselves are being eaten alive by Amazon.
Michael wrote: "Be interesting to see whether he does or not. Sales of ebooks are still tiny, which is perhaps a sign of how many are copied and downloaded for free from pirate sites and other thieves. Certainly supporting the physical book trade is a very good idea. "
I hope it isn't such a good idea that some authors decide to publish only on paper. I am Italian and I like to read the original version of my books whenever possible; if I hadn't been able to buy Kindle books I would have lost many good reads, paid many "excess baggage" on planes and I would have been obliged to discard old books to make space for new ones...my Kindle is an old one and it is starting to seem a kind of brick, if you compare it with the new ones - just like it happened with mobile phones - but it still works very well.
I hope authors will be willing to sell me their ebooks for many years to come.
Simona - for what it's worth, as an author I now consider ebooks my primary mode of publication for both my fiction and most nonfiction. Paper is the primary mode only for my textbooks - the traditional publisher sales forces are still needed to reach the textbook audience.
Kat wrote: "I've bought the Nook Simple Touch, as I'm in the UK it is on sale at the moment for £29, absolute bargain, anyone in the UK looking for an eReader, the Nook Glowlight is also on offer but at £69 wh..."Boy, that is cheap! Even I'd be tempted at that price....of course I am Australian....so I mean, if it was on sale in Oz for that price - which I think would be about $39 - I'd be tempted. And I hate reading ebooks. So that's saying a lot. I would not be able to pass up the price though and I might give away to my Dad as a present. Or hubby.
Paul wrote: "Barnes & Noble ate almost every indie bookstore for lunch in New York City, and now they themselves are being eaten alive by Amazon."I just read an article somewhere??? that said the indie bookstore was still alive and kicking in NY. Not as many as before but they're still around and they tend to specialize.
Although I do like those 3 storey B&N's, they're fun to look through.
Speaking of ebook market share....this news story today in the Washington Times.http://communities.washingtontimes.co...
Self-publishing gains bigger share of book market
DOTHAN, AL, June 12, 2013 — Traditional book publishers just cannot catch a break these days. Every bit of good news seems to have a corresponding bit of bad news to go along with it.
Adult trade book sales were up 8.4% in January, the most recent month hard figures are available for, but sales in the young adult category took a dive by 23.5%. Overall e-book sales were up 10.1% over the past year, but that falls far short of the 49.4% increase the year before.
To add derision to affliction, Bowker Research just reported that self-published books now represent 12% of all e-book sales and as much as 20% of specific genres like romance and fantasy. Publishers take heart, that news is based on a survey done in the UK, though e-book sales on both sides of the Atlantic often follow the same pattern. Can you say “Harry Potter?”
The news about flattening e-book sales is sparking a lot of debate over whether e-books have seen their best days and are already on the way out. Another recent study of college students and professors showed that they are not ready for e-textbooks and still prefer print despite cost and convenience factors. Textbooks are referred to as “heavy tomes” for a reason.
Self-publishing is quickly losing the stigma that was once attached to it, but critics still abound, mostly traditional publishers. Andrew Franklin, founder of Profile Books, recently went on a rant at a London writing conference and said self-published books are “unutterable rubbish.” The general argument against self-publishing is that readers are barraged with too many choices and there is no vetting by experienced editors.
That is the polite way to suggest that self-publishers are losers who cannot find a regular publisher.
The counter to that from wannabe authors is that if publishers and agents would answer their phones, respond to queries and welcome new writers there would not be such a rush to circumvent the traditional business model. Even published authors such as David Mamet are opting for self-publishing in order to have more control over their own works. So when did too many choices become a bad thing?
According to Bowker there are now some 235,000 self-published titles in print, an increase of nearly 300% since 2006. In 2011 alone there were over 148,000 new self-published titles added to the lists. That means 43% of all print books released in the U.S. that year were self-published. It is no wonder that traditional publishers are exhibiting hives and nervous habits.
On the surface this might look like a true grassroots movement — that the great unwashed masses are rising up against an oppressive publishing industry and taking their place as the new dominant culture. That is not the case. As with traditional publishing, self-publishing has far more misses than hits. The number of authors actually selling anything is very low despite the stories you see about this or that self-published book selling a million copies.
Who is making money from self-publishing? The answer to that is Amazon, Smashwords, Penguin and Lulu. Amazon’s CreateSpace service put out over 58,000 print titles last year. Smashwords accounted for over 40,000 e-book titles.
Bowker points out that aside from those four providers, no other printing service can claim more than 10% of the self-publishing market. Bowker must have convinced itself that self-publishing is lucrative since they recently started a website called SelfPublishedAuthor.com, touted as a web resource with advice for independents who might just need Bowker paid services.
The publishing industry is certainly in turmoil, but as history illustrates that can be a good time for innovation and new ideas to flourish. The overall business model is changing rapidly as players like Amazon and Barnes and Noble go beyond selling books and into the business of making them.
E-books have brought back the ability to produce short fiction at reasonable cost, and forms like short stories and serializations are being brought back from near extinction. Authors, both first-time and established, are able to control their own work despite some of the technical problems that remain.
The publishing industry has survived change in the past. In the late 19th century a fierce publishing war broke out between the U.S. and England due to a loophole in the copyright laws. The rise of mass market paperbacks in the mid-20th century was considered a major threat to hardcover books. Digital publishing has brought a host of new issues still to be resolved.
Traditional publishers have lost exclusive control of the book market. While they have been focusing on finding the next mega-hit, Amazon and others have made use of digital technologies to pick up the small business opportunities that publishers overlook or ignore. An old sales adage is that you can sell a million items for a dollar each, or you can sell one item for a million dollars.
Self-publishers and the providers that service them seem to be doing quite well with the one-dollar approach. That, in turn, is turning out to be a pretty good deal for book lovers.
A couple of the latest news stories relating to ebooks and digital evolution.Why Big Publishers Think Genre Fiction Like Sci-Fi Is the Future of E-Books
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/0...
By Graeme McMillan
06.26.13
One of the biggest success stories in U.S. publishing in recent years has been the continued growth of digital book publishing. Last year, total revenue for e-book sales in the United States reached $3.04 billion, a 44.2% increase on 2011′s numbers and a figure all the more impressive when you realize that growth is additive to the print publishing industry. Even more surprising, publishers have focused much of their attention on genres like sci-fi, fantasy, mystery and romance fiction – markets that have traditionally lagged behind “literary fiction” in terms of sales.
In the last few months, however, Random House and Harper Collins launched their first digital-only imprints, and all of them focused on genre fiction. Random House announced the sci-fi/fantasy line Hydra, mystery line Alibi, “new adult”-targeted Flirt and romance-centric Loveswept, while Harper Collins created the digital mystery imprint Witness in April. Although this focus on genre fiction might seem counter-intuitive according to traditional print publishing sales, Random House VP and digital publishing director Allison Dobson says there’s a simple reason for it: The digital audience wants different things.
“Certain categories [of eBooks] have a much larger digital adoption than others,” Dobson said. “The genres were among the first where readers took to the digital format and the ratio of readers of digital, as opposed to physical, are much, much higher.” In the case of some genre titles, as much as 60 to 70 percent of the sales are digital. “I think there is an enormous audience in digital right now,” Dobson said. “It’s actually where the action is.”
There are multiple theories for the genre dominance in digital publishing, including the appeal of anonymity offered by e-reader devices, which don’t display the cover of a potentially embarrassing book for all the world to see. As Antonia Senior wrote in The Guardian last year, ”I’m happier reading [trashy fiction] on an e-reader, and keeping shelf space for books that proclaim my cleverness.”
But the digital delivery system also offers immediacy and ease of access for material that often is serialized and written to make you want to know what happens next, as soon as possible. Liate Stehlik, senior vice president and publisher at Harper Collins, subscribes to that idea, at least partially. Genre fans, she says, became “early adopters” of the digital format because e-books are the optimal format “for people who want to read a lot of books, quickly and frequently. Digital has replaced the paperback, certainly the paperback originals. I think the audience that gravitated to eBooks first really was that voracious reader, reading for entertainment, reading multiple books in a month across multiple genres.”
For both Random House and Harper Collins, moving to a digital-first publishing model not only offers a higher return on investment for genre publishing, but also opens the door for those publishers to experiment in a much more cost-effective way than print. “It’s not that we couldn’t publish these books before,” Dobson said, “but [now] that a certain consumer has migrated online, and the ease of buying these books has grown that consumer base substantially.”
“The thing with digital is that you’re not as adhered to a single format or price point as you were in the past,” said Stehlik. “You can do a novella, you can do a short book that leads into a longer book, or a book that bridges two different books from the same author. Before, you might have thought, Oh, there’s nowhere to put that, we’ll have to put in paperback with the next one, but digital presents a different market to promote shorter works. And the audience responds… We don’t have to feel limited by format in the way that we may have done before.”
Digital publishing also allows books to go to market much more quickly than printed books, and offers publishers the benefit of both rapid consumer feedback and the ability to adapt to reader response. “Before, you had to wait, you had to put the books out there, wait six months to see what came back and you’d have to think, ‘Well, maybe if it had a different cover it would work, maybe if it had a different title,’” said Stehlik. “Now, it’s a lot more instantaneous, and you can change the cover, change the title, and see how people respond. You can even engage the audience before you publish, which gives them a kind of ownership over the book.”
But if the digital market opens up new opportunities and options for mainstream publishers, it also puts them in competition with smaller and self-publishers in the digital market. According to a recent survey, more than a fifth of all genre e-books sold in the United Kingdom are self-published, and the phenomenal success of Fifty Shades of Grey (originally self-published digitally by author E.L. James) has handily demonstrated that digital self-publishing doesn’t necessarily bear the same print stigma of “vanity press.”
Both Random House and Harper Collins hope their digital imprints will appeal to new writers and those who have self-published digitally in the past, particularly since it can lead to print publication as well. “With the new authors we’ve worked with this far, at least half of the titles, we’ve been able to sell print editions of those books as well, some in some of the bigger chains such as a Target or a Walmart,” said Stehlik. ”For us, it’s the first time in about fifteen years that we’ve actually increased the number of authors and books that we’re publishing. It’s a great opportunity for us to grow our list, and our reach.”
Both Dobson and Stehlik says that they’re excited by the potential of digital publishing, and the tools it gives authors and publishers to experiment with new content and interacting with their readers in different ways. ”It’s hard to say that books have one single monolithic future, or path to the future,” said Dobson. “That’s thrilling for people who love this business, because there are lots of ways to take it depending on what kind of content you’re involved in.”
“There’s so much potential,” agreed Stehlik. ”It’s very freeing to know who your customers are, and it’s very exciting to have that ability. We’re very lucky to have that today.”
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Why Barnes & Noble could thrive selling digital books
Despite Amazon’s success in the last few years
B&N has carved out about 25% of the e-book market, and a higher market share in the number of digital magazines sold.
By MSN Money Partner
By Simone Foxman(5 hours ago) 26/6/2013
http://money.msn.com/technology-inves...
In its quarterly earnings report yesterday, Barnes & Noble (BKS +5.45%) announced that it would stop manufacturing its line of Nook eReaders in-house. Instead, it will farm out the production of new tablets to third parties, which it will maintain through branded content deals. In reality, B&N should go further, relinquishing just about any pretense at hardware and focusing on translating what it does best in the print space to the digital space: books.
B&N's Nook business is unquestionably deteriorating as cheaper tablets from manufacturers like Apple (AAPL -1.13%) and Samsung have become more popular. Revenues from that division fell 34% in the most recent quarter from a year ago. But there's hope for digital book sales; revenues there rose 16% in B&N's 2013 fiscal year, which concluded with the last quarter.
Even if B&N ditched the Nook entirely, it still offers more e-books than any of its competitors (more than three million, compared with "over a million" titles on Amazon's Kindle), and it has consistently produced some of the best-rated software for reading books. Despite Amazon's (AMZN +2.01%) success in the last few years, B&N has carved out about 25% of the e-book market, and a higher market share in the number of digital magazines sold.
Nook's software is already available on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows and Blackberry. It's also pre-loaded on non-traditional devices like nabi tablets and E FUN Android Nextbook tablets. Its software also handles multiple kinds of reading documents, like PDFs and ePub files.
And the growing size of the digital book market makes it an attractive place to be, especially without the brutal competitive pressures of the hardware business. PricewaterhouseCoopers projects that the US digital consumer book publishing market will exceed the size of the print book publishing market by 2017. In 2012, the market was already $3.35 billion. There is even more growth to be found in the developing world, where smartphones and tablets will dominate -- yet another reason for B&N to stick to having its software on every platform imaginable, rather than trying to make money selling flashy hardware.
It makes some sense for the company to maintain a relationship with a partner who can produce hardware dedicated to running Nook software, but only for its most basic devices at the cheapest price points. The company said in its earnings call yesterday that its best digital book customers are readers on its most basic tablets, those who aren't interested in the bells and whistles of a more advanced tablet device.
Digital book sales certainly won't be immune from competition -- Amazon is pursuing a multi-platform strategy even as it aggressively sells Kindle devices. But if Barnes & Noble can become the go-to app for reading on any device, then the company has a real chance at survival, even after the brick-and-mortar stores where it made its reputation are a distant memory.
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I'm old-fashioned enough, it's exclusively paper for me. If it's eBook only, I just have to miss out unless I can find it POD somewhere. At least there are many, many paper books I still haven't read.
I'm hopefully getting a tablet this year so I'll finally be able to see what all the fuss is with the ebooks. :)
Probably, I do love technology. And the library keeps getting more and more books that are only in digital format. It should also be lighter than carrying a book in my purse. :)
Jane wrote: "I'm old-fashioned enough, it's exclusively paper for me. If it's eBook only, I just have to miss out unless I can find it POD somewhere. At least there are many, many paper books I still haven't ..."I am the same Jane. If it is only an ebook I won't touch it. Not even remotely interested in reading ebooks.
Although, I would probably read a cookbook in ebook form if I didn't have to buy it. But I would never actually buy a cookbook in ebook. Nothing to show for my money.
I committed to reviewing some e-versions of books and now remember why I stopped doing it before. Once I'm done these, I'm done with the e-reading. I know a lot of people love it, but I just have such a hard time.
That's my problem. It doesn't feel like I am reading a book. Feels like I am reading a document and that uses a different part if my mind.
I totally love my Kindle that I've had 2+ years, no pages closing on me while reading,can hold comfortably in one hand, adjustable text size and no problem with pages too faded to read.
Hmmm, I didn't think of that. It would be much easier to read while eating....
Dawn wrote: "Hmmm, I didn't think of that. It would be much easier to read while eating...."LOL, ah yes that it is! But with my Kindle Touch,I can switch it from 'Text To Speech' and not even hold it at all!
I just got Louisa May Alcott Collection 39 Works Little Women Series Little Women Good Wives Little Men Jo s Boys An Old Fasioned Girl Eight Cousins Rose in Bloom Mysterious Key Under the Lilacs MORE for $1.99 at Amazon and The Anne Stories: 12 Books, 142 Short Stories, Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, Audiobooks for $0.99 at Amazon.
Sure takes up less shelf space to have them on my Kindle,also I have a phobia about paper fire hazards,so my Kindle really gives me relief from much worry there.
Sorry but the search feature could not find them so I was not able to include a link. Probably because it only searches at Barnes & Noble,not Amazon,which is weird since Amazon owns goodreads,LOL!
I own every one of those books in paper. :)
Christine wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Hmmm, I didn't think of that. It would be much easier to read while eating...."LOL, ah yes that it is! But with my Kindle Touch,I can switch it from 'Text To Speech' and not even hol..."
Don't worry. Nobody has to link non historical fiction. :)
I admit I have one foot in the dark side but with as much as I travel I love having the ease of pulling out my Kindle Fire and then slipping it back in my backpack when I land. I still support paper books and buy periodically from little bookstores like Liberty in Washington State and Changing Hands here in Arizona. And just tonight I bought 3 hardbacks from Amazon so I'm covering my guilt.
I would read on an eReader if I could. It is much easier to get quality books (ones I want to read anyway) to review via ebook, but unfortunately I have no choice. My brain rejects eReading. :]
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