The Weirdstone of Brisingamen ebook on offer

[julesjones]

Just checked the Amazon monthly Kindle deals, and... Look what's on offer for 99p!


The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

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(Now to go back and check the rest of the deals for items of potential interest to this parish.)

ETA: also 99p at Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-weirdstone-of-brisingamen

Comments

[kalypso]

Some time when the weather is nice and you're up to walking distances, we should go to the Edge.

Have you read Elidor, by the way? I think it's better than watervole does, and how many novels feature a character who lives on Fog Lane, Manchester 20?

[julesjones]

A trip to the Edge would be good. :-)

I missed out on Garner's work when I was in the target demographic, and I think the only one I've read is Red Shift. I would like to rememdy that.

[kalypso]

I do have a lot of battered paperbacks. Not to mention that DVD of The Owl Service we keep not getting round to watching.

[ex_heleninwales860]

I was in my teens when I first read Garner, so a little older than the intended readership, perhaps, especially for the first ones. Elidor actually changed the sort of stories I wrote from then on because, until I read it, I had never realised that it was possible to set a story in the sort of place where I lived, which was Manchester 9, on the edge of the area being demolished in the story.

[kalypso]

The rolling map was still in Piccadilly when I read it, so I used to go there and turn the handles to look at Thursday Street.

[julesjones]

I obviously need to read more of his work. :-)

I noticed that there were a lot of titles from him coming up as "if you liked that", with what were obviously themed covers, so I suspect there's been a recent push to get his catalogue into ebook to reach a new audience and/or the old audience now grown up.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I remember borrowing that from the children's section of my local library in about 1963, when it could have only recently come out, and greatly enjoying it. Perhaps it's about time I reread it. :)

[julesjones]

I've never actually read (as far as I know), and have been meaning to. The reality is that if it's not on my Kobo or my Kindle app, that's not going to happen. So now it is. :-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

And it's now on my Kindle app on my PC. Amazon got their confirmatory email wrong, though. They said it had been sent to my device by wi-fi. Oh no, it hadn't! Cable all the way. :)

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

Heh. I saw this, and jumped to Amazon to buy it. Now, I don't have a Kindle, I have a Kobo, but with a certain amount of faff it's possible to move books across, via kindle app, finding file, and pushing it through Calibre with secret-sauce plugin.

Then I returned, saw the ETA, and bought it again on Kobo store. :-)

[julesjones]

I clicked, posted, then thought, "Hang on, I usually check first to see if it's also on sale at Kobo". And lo, it was. At that price, for that book, I'm happy to pay to have both file formats.

My e-ink device is a Kobo and my device of choice, but I also run apps on my phone, so my phone has a lot of cheap Kindle books on it.