Oh yes, I have become hooked on ebooks
Those as know me, expect me to always be carrying a book around. These days, it may not look like I do so anymore. Actually, I'm always carrying a rather large number of books around - they're just all on my beloved tablet. I have a small library on there! It's marvelous.
But at the moment, I have run out of everything on it that I wanted to read new, or that was a reread. Gah.
Dad sent me several books in the Safehold series by Weber. I'm mostly done with the first one. I'm trying to FIND where the rest were PUT, darn it, as I'm going to want to start them soon. I had one with me at church tonight, back in my corner of the big loud dining hall, where I was grumping that darn it, I couldn't adjust the brightness. Or the font size! I ... have become SO hooked on my tablet as reading source.
I was also thinking after all the praise I heard of Game of Thrones as a tv show, maybe I'd try the first book.
So for both these things, I tried poking at the Fort Worth library site. Yes, they have lots of ebooks, but it looks like you have to be a resident to get to them. I can get to their books through a couple of hoops, but not the Good Stuff like that. And the Saginaw library is just pitifully bad. I can't find a thing about ebooks on their site. Bah.
Karl complains that you can't wrap ebooks. I think B&N needs to set up a printer in each store, that can print out a cover of the book, about the size of the front of a paperback, with a redemption code on it, and you could put that in a little giftbox and wrap it. Would have people buying more in the store, too, would be a good business thing for them I think.
Oh, and there's at least one new Pratchett out I haven't read....
We'll see how long my willpower keeps me from just going wild at the Amazon ebook section. Not that I'm wild about how they do things, but darn it, Baen doesn't publish everything.
But at the moment, I have run out of everything on it that I wanted to read new, or that was a reread. Gah.
Dad sent me several books in the Safehold series by Weber. I'm mostly done with the first one. I'm trying to FIND where the rest were PUT, darn it, as I'm going to want to start them soon. I had one with me at church tonight, back in my corner of the big loud dining hall, where I was grumping that darn it, I couldn't adjust the brightness. Or the font size! I ... have become SO hooked on my tablet as reading source.
I was also thinking after all the praise I heard of Game of Thrones as a tv show, maybe I'd try the first book.
So for both these things, I tried poking at the Fort Worth library site. Yes, they have lots of ebooks, but it looks like you have to be a resident to get to them. I can get to their books through a couple of hoops, but not the Good Stuff like that. And the Saginaw library is just pitifully bad. I can't find a thing about ebooks on their site. Bah.
Karl complains that you can't wrap ebooks. I think B&N needs to set up a printer in each store, that can print out a cover of the book, about the size of the front of a paperback, with a redemption code on it, and you could put that in a little giftbox and wrap it. Would have people buying more in the store, too, would be a good business thing for them I think.
Oh, and there's at least one new Pratchett out I haven't read....
We'll see how long my willpower keeps me from just going wild at the Amazon ebook section. Not that I'm wild about how they do things, but darn it, Baen doesn't publish everything.