On Kindles! :D
So... I bought for myself a kindle.
It was a very quick decision after several months of mooning over the prospects of new books. Turns out, with Borders closing, no one carries a dedicated 'horror' section around here. In fact, the gore-laden monster books I love have been integrated to the 'general fiction' section.
WUT.
Furthermore, no one stocks the authors I like to read - David Wellington is constantly met by a look of 'who?' and you ask a clerk to help you and ten for ten times our B&N staff will turn up their noses and wander off to find something 'important' to do. Our local Borders Express has been replaced by a Books-A-Million, and I will not stop singing their praises any time soon. Oh. My god.
The dear late middle-aged woman clerk tried her damnedest to find me a book the other day. "I'm looking for vampires? Not like the cuddly ones you want to date. Like the mean ones you want to kill. Nasty ones that die in the end."
We went through a massive list of teen fiction, all of which was rejected because it's TEEN FICTION which means that there's going to be DATING VAMPIRES. Then, bless her heart, "Stephanie Meyer? Breaking Dawn? That sounds promising?" Oh, I nearly burst out laughing. Didn't. But nearly did.
Then the man!staff came from the back, and she said to him "This is right up your alley - she's looking for bad vampires - not the kind you date, the kind you kill." And it was indeed up his alley, but he couldn't remember the author's name or the title of the book he wanted to suggest at me, spent half an hour pouring over his invoices and stock sheets, and came back regretably empty-handed. Poor man.
So I went online to see if I could find a decent Hunter novel. GOD NO. Anita Blake, Buffy, True Blood, and Twilight have DEVOURED this genre. "If you're going to sleep with something otherworldly make sure it's a were-wolf" is not ANY BETTER philosophy here.
So in doing this, I noticed a frightening piece of information: All the paperback novels online are nearly as expensive as the hardcovers! WUT!?
I haven't bought first-hand books in a long, long time.
So instead of further frustrating the staff at Books-A-Million the other night, I bought a Kindle at Best Buy.
BEST. THING. EVAR.
I told my co-teacher at work the other day that I had, and she was kind of snooty about it. "I like real books. I don't buy my books I get them from the library. I like not having to worry about getting them wet at the pool."
I showed her my shiny new toy the next day and she flipped out at how cool it is.
I have fallen asleep with this thing in my hands several days in a row now. I forget that I'm reading off a screen and my eyes occasionally notice the machine and I have a very strong "What?" reaction. I have read quite a lot of short stories, and also a whole novel in three days.
I AM LEARNING TO READ AGAIN!!! :D!!!
I feel enlightened and able to find things I want to read - I've been on a tear of classics anyway, and guess what? All books in the amazon database published pre-1928 are free! And some besides that, also. Just finished reading Fritz Leiber's post-apoc novella The Night of the Long Knives and am quite delighted about it. :)
I am such a happy bunny right now. I marvel at this thing, and the technology of this screen and how it doesn't instigate pixel burn and how crisp the letters are and how delightful images are in it.
I long to turn on the wifi someday when we're not in the biggest deadzone this side of the Mississippi. :)
So happy.
EDIT TO ADD: if anyone else has one on my list of people and would like to swap books at me sometime, let me know! You should all know my e-mail address, but PM'ing sends notes to my inbox, too~!
It was a very quick decision after several months of mooning over the prospects of new books. Turns out, with Borders closing, no one carries a dedicated 'horror' section around here. In fact, the gore-laden monster books I love have been integrated to the 'general fiction' section.
WUT.
Furthermore, no one stocks the authors I like to read - David Wellington is constantly met by a look of 'who?' and you ask a clerk to help you and ten for ten times our B&N staff will turn up their noses and wander off to find something 'important' to do. Our local Borders Express has been replaced by a Books-A-Million, and I will not stop singing their praises any time soon. Oh. My god.
The dear late middle-aged woman clerk tried her damnedest to find me a book the other day. "I'm looking for vampires? Not like the cuddly ones you want to date. Like the mean ones you want to kill. Nasty ones that die in the end."
We went through a massive list of teen fiction, all of which was rejected because it's TEEN FICTION which means that there's going to be DATING VAMPIRES. Then, bless her heart, "Stephanie Meyer? Breaking Dawn? That sounds promising?" Oh, I nearly burst out laughing. Didn't. But nearly did.
Then the man!staff came from the back, and she said to him "This is right up your alley - she's looking for bad vampires - not the kind you date, the kind you kill." And it was indeed up his alley, but he couldn't remember the author's name or the title of the book he wanted to suggest at me, spent half an hour pouring over his invoices and stock sheets, and came back regretably empty-handed. Poor man.
So I went online to see if I could find a decent Hunter novel. GOD NO. Anita Blake, Buffy, True Blood, and Twilight have DEVOURED this genre. "If you're going to sleep with something otherworldly make sure it's a were-wolf" is not ANY BETTER philosophy here.
So in doing this, I noticed a frightening piece of information: All the paperback novels online are nearly as expensive as the hardcovers! WUT!?
I haven't bought first-hand books in a long, long time.
So instead of further frustrating the staff at Books-A-Million the other night, I bought a Kindle at Best Buy.
BEST. THING. EVAR.
I told my co-teacher at work the other day that I had, and she was kind of snooty about it. "I like real books. I don't buy my books I get them from the library. I like not having to worry about getting them wet at the pool."
I showed her my shiny new toy the next day and she flipped out at how cool it is.
I have fallen asleep with this thing in my hands several days in a row now. I forget that I'm reading off a screen and my eyes occasionally notice the machine and I have a very strong "What?" reaction. I have read quite a lot of short stories, and also a whole novel in three days.
I AM LEARNING TO READ AGAIN!!! :D!!!
I feel enlightened and able to find things I want to read - I've been on a tear of classics anyway, and guess what? All books in the amazon database published pre-1928 are free! And some besides that, also. Just finished reading Fritz Leiber's post-apoc novella The Night of the Long Knives and am quite delighted about it. :)
I am such a happy bunny right now. I marvel at this thing, and the technology of this screen and how it doesn't instigate pixel burn and how crisp the letters are and how delightful images are in it.
I long to turn on the wifi someday when we're not in the biggest deadzone this side of the Mississippi. :)
So happy.
EDIT TO ADD: if anyone else has one on my list of people and would like to swap books at me sometime, let me know! You should all know my e-mail address, but PM'ing sends notes to my inbox, too~!