The Kindle Books and Resources List

[Frelga]

Guards! Guards! Is 1.99 on Kindle.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War is also $1.99 today. In my opinion, the best and most important biographical work about Tolkien.

[RoseMorninStar]

Thanks Frelga and V.

FYI: Not sure this is of interest to anyone here, but the Brooklyn public library is offering a work around for banned books. For anyone 13-21 they will grant you a virtual library card for digital access.
Send an email (without spaces) to: booksunbanned @ BKLYNlibrary.org

For those who live in New York state the card is permanent, but for those who live elsewhere this may only be good for a undetermined /limited time. This card is not only for banned books, one can also access genealogy records, etc. Donations can also be made in support.

[Frelga]

Tor's free book bundle for May is out, available until May 6.

https://ebookclub.tor.com

This in particular looks intriguing. Anyone heard of it?

A Psalm For The Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1)
by Becky Chambers

Dex is an adventurous and friendly tea monk who travels the human-populated areas of their moon meeting villagers and townsfolk. Dex custom-blends tea to fit the folks’ needs, and they confide their misgivings to the monk. One day, Dex meets a robot named Mosscap and they are thrown into a road-trip with a question on their minds: “what do people need?”

[Inanna]

I’ve read it. Beautiful. Waiting for the second one to come out this year.

[elengil]

This may not be the best place for this link but given that it is *directly* applicable, I am going to share it here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ ... -rcna26103

That it’s now so easy to pull the plug on thousands of book titles is itself a revelation to some users of e-reader apps, which have become part of the basic digital infrastructure at many schools and public libraries. People use the apps to find e-books available to borrow and then read them either in the same app or download them to another, such as Amazon’s Kindle.

Might be a good time to start writing to representatives (if you're in the US) and asking for legislation to protect e-books and e-book platforms.

[Impenitent]

I export my e-book library to an external hard disk. If ever a book is pulled, for whatever reason, I can still read it on my e-reader, having takwn the precautionary step of turning off wireless access.

In other news, I am now an out of State member of the Brooklyn Public Library and can borrow e-books. Colour me happy!

[RoseMorninStar]

How in the world did you do that Impy? I thought it was US residence under the age of 18 or some-such. I guess I need to check into that further.

[Jude]

Yeah, I'd like to know that too!

[Impenitent]

An out of state address (my bff in Maryland) and the $50 fee, worth it for me because I pay more than twice that to Amazon annually for my kindle books.
I access via Libby.

[Inanna]

I export my e-book library to an external hard disk. If ever a book is pulled, for whatever reason, I can still read it on my e-reader, having takwn the precautionary step of turning off wireless access.

What??? How?? Even on kindle?

[Impenitent]

Yes. It's not difficult. I plug the kindle into my laptop so I can open it like any external media, and copy the contents across to my backup.

[Frelga]

The Tor free book of the month is The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall.

Anyone heard of it?

[RoseMorninStar]

Oooh, I'm not signed up for Tor, but that looks good. I may need to check into it. I just got a new Kindle fire which may need able to handle that.

[Inanna]

Downloaded it in overdrive - it’s far more friendly than the kindle app for these external books.

[Frelga]

How'd you do that? Through Tor, or just borrowed from the library?

[Inanna]

I was talking about this book through Tor. It gave me two links - kindle and ebook. Kindle never opened in my kindle app. Ebook link opened immediately in my Overdrive app.

[Frelga]

Oh! Do you mean Overdrive on Kindle?

That penny has been dropping a long way!

[RoseMorninStar]

I signed up for Tor, how do I get the book? Do they have to send me something?

[Frelga]

Rose, they will send you an email every month.

For this month, if you click on the Tor link https://ebookclub.tor.com/, you should see the button to click and enter the email that you signed up with.