UK Kindle sale

[julesjones]

The UK branch of the Evil South American River is having an ebook sale - over a thousand ebooks reduced to silly prices, mostly 99p. I'm not sure that I should really be encouraging this sort of activity, given some of the more interesting clauses in Amazon's T&C about who makes the decision on price and who takes the hit on the sale price. On the other hand, it includes a number of books I'm willing to buy even DRMed if they're cheap enough. Amongst other things, the first two Miss Phryne Fisher mystery novels are now on my Kindle app, and there are several non-fiction books I've bought for future writing research purposes.

Kindle sale

Still need to learn to use Calibre and naughty plug-ins, because I've already discovered this morning that I find it much more comfortable on my eyes to read ebooks on the e-ink Kobo than on the iPad, and I'm not buying Kindle e-ink hardware just to read a subset of my books. (Oddly, I don't seem to mind looking at ebooks in the Kindle app on the desktop monitor, but I suspect that's because I've usually got decent room lighting when I'm in front of that.)

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder. I found Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls and a book of Gillian Clarke's poetry, both only 99p! I hadn't heard of Miss Phryne Fisher before, but at that price, I'll take a chance on something new because the reviews make her sound like an interesting character.

[julesjones]

I've seen a handful of episodes of the tv adaptation of Miss Fisher (which I don't think has made it onto UK broadcast tv yet), and liked them well enough that I'd been intending to pick up a book when I'd cleared some space on the TBR pile. So I grabbed the two on reduction, which are the first two of the series.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

The series is being shown on a channel called Alibi over here, which I think is a Sky channel - with luck it might filter down on to one of the Freeview channels later on.

I've managed to get Calibre to convert Kindle books to epub files for my Nook. I can't remember which plugin I had to use for that, but I found it easily enough and if tech-clueless I can do it, it really can't be that hard :)

[julesjones]

I've got Calibre, I just haven't gotten around to learning to use it, or finding the Naughty Plug-ins. :-) I haven't really needed to use Calibre for cataloguing yet, but I think I've reached the point where I need to either use LibraryThing rigorously to catalogue ebooks and read status, or use Calibre to shuffle things around.