The Kindle Books and Resources List
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I get the feeling I'm talking to myself a little here, but what the heck - in case there are some silent readers of this, Amazon has a series of Kurt Vonnegut books for $1.99 each today in honour of his birthday.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/r ... 91&ie=UTF8
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/r ... 91&ie=UTF8
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I always check out this thread when it lights up! I get the Kindle daily deal emails, and sometimes glance at them and toss them. I did today (this is the third or fourth time Slaughterhouse-Five has come around), so your post here is the first I've heard that there are more Vonnegut titles available.
Also, it's good to get jogged when something especially interesting is on offer. I come here and post when something I'm excited about is included in the deal.
(As for Vonnegut, I've read five or six of his books and he wore me out, alas.)
Also, it's good to get jogged when something especially interesting is on offer. I come here and post when something I'm excited about is included in the deal.
(As for Vonnegut, I've read five or six of his books and he wore me out, alas.)
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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I always check this thread when it lights up to, even though I never say anything. Your updates are always appreciated, Impish.
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$1.99 on Kindle today, Night Train to Memphis, a Vicky Bliss mystery by Elizabeth Peters, the author of Amelia Peabody series. Vicky is the modern day Amelia with her own Master Criminal nemesis/sometimes partner, although the stories tend to be more lightweight.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CH3DB
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CH3DB
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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There are a huge number of Kindle books on sale today (probably to bring in people who unwrapped their first Kindles yesterday). As an example, 200 romance books including well over a dozen Georgette Heyer Regencies for $1.99:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/r ... 51&ie=UTF8
Click around! And although these are U.S. deals, I would be surprised if there weren't a similar sale on other iterations of Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/r ... 51&ie=UTF8
Click around! And although these are U.S. deals, I would be surprised if there weren't a similar sale on other iterations of Amazon.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Some pretty good books in the DotD today, including Gaiman, Bradbury, and every Miss Marple story in a set.
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b/? ... ws_1178-20
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b/? ... ws_1178-20
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Re: The Kindle Books and Resources List
My Kindle died.
My original keyboard Kindle.
I'm reading on my phone. It works; it's words stringing together into a story, but I don't like it. Too small.
I've ordered the new paperwhite with inbuilt light source and all kinds of new techno bells and whistles (contextual dictionary...not sure what that means). It will be here (so they say) on Friday.
But it will never be the same.
My original keyboard Kindle.
I'm reading on my phone. It works; it's words stringing together into a story, but I don't like it. Too small.
I've ordered the new paperwhite with inbuilt light source and all kinds of new techno bells and whistles (contextual dictionary...not sure what that means). It will be here (so they say) on Friday.
But it will never be the same.
Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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Re: The Kindle Books and Resources List
Sympathies, Impy!
My Kindle is the keyboard one, too. Three years and counting. My dad and Mr. Prim both have the Paperwhite and love it. It's small and tidy, and you can read in poor light, and the touchscreen is something the Kindle really needed from the start. The little cursor keys and slow scrolling are not my favorite feature of this device.
But I will miss my big old physical keyboard when it goes. Maybe I'm a Luddite, but I like it when keyboards are large enough to use and give some physical feedback when you type.
My Kindle is the keyboard one, too. Three years and counting. My dad and Mr. Prim both have the Paperwhite and love it. It's small and tidy, and you can read in poor light, and the touchscreen is something the Kindle really needed from the start. The little cursor keys and slow scrolling are not my favorite feature of this device.
But I will miss my big old physical keyboard when it goes. Maybe I'm a Luddite, but I like it when keyboards are large enough to use and give some physical feedback when you type.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Re: The Kindle Books and Resources List
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