What I Bought
To answer oracne's query from a couple of posts ago: I bought the new color omnibus of Girl Genius; and then based on recommendations, I decided to give Amanda Downum a try with The Drowning City. While I was in a buying mood, I also ordered the most recent Kim Harrison paperback.
I'm so pleased that Girl Genius is now available in a reasonably-priced color omnibus. I'm not shy about spending money on books, but the individual chapters in color just were out of my range. I hope the book sells well enough that Tor continues publishing the next several chapters thus.
I was startled to see that in the bookstore (B&N), the book is not discounted, whereas B&N online is selling it at 36% off. I suppose I shouldn't be startled--the online store has a lot less overhead--but it was still kind of sad to decide not to buy it in the store because I already knew how much less it was online. If it had been maybe $5 difference, I would have bought the book in the store, but $13 was too much. That $13 covered more than 75% of the Downum and Harrison paperbacks' cost.
So those three were hardcopy purchases, and should arrive by Saturday.
I also (finally) succumbed and bought The Hunger Games. People have been after me for a long while to read it, but I was resistant. But then I downloaded the sample from BN.com to my Nook two weeks ago, and finally read it (it's like the first 12 or 15 pages) this past weekend. Yes, it caught my interest, and so I bought the full ebook.
It's the first ebook I've bought! I've had the Nook since Christmas, but the only books I've put on it were sksperry's latest first draft, a few test files from my day job, and the ebook editions of Bujold that came on the CD at the back of Cryoburn.
I was reading The Hunger Games at lunch today (irony not intended) and it has me thoroughly hooked.
Sometimes I forget that I really do have very strong "popular fiction" tastes. ;-)