I am a big fan of legal copies of everything. I can wait. I've already waited years.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
javachik - Dec 21, 2010 6:00:36 pm PST #13318 of 28706
Our wings are not tired.
Rayne - Dec 21, 2010 6:04:06 pm PST #13319 of 28706
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I'm also a big fan of legal copies. I just wish there were digital copies of books available when you buy a book. Kind of like when you buy a Blu Ray these days. You get a Blu Ray, sometimes a DVD and a digital copy. It would be cool if books could do the same things. Buy the books, get a free ebook version.
Consuela - Dec 21, 2010 6:28:18 pm PST #13320 of 28706
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Buy the books, get a free ebook version.
that's what Baen did with the latest Bujold: the book came with a CD loaded with RTF versions of nearly every Vorkosigan book in the franchise.
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 11:10:36 pm PST #13321 of 28706
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pissed because I wanted to reread Dirk Gently and I lost my copy in Katrina. No ebook! I have the Hitchhikers on paper already, thank you. No use to me digitally. I bought the Liff thingy, out of sentiment, but I really wanted Dirk.
I have to decide what books to buy before I go on vacation. Will I finish The Game of Thrones? Probably. Should get the second one. Neuromancer and Snow Crash piqued my interest, and maybe I should see what Gaiman I don't have on paper.
meara - Dec 22, 2010 5:52:29 am PST #13322 of 28706
Hopping on from Budapest to say LOVE my kindle for the long trip here and train etc. Even used as a guidebook it isn't so bad, though hard to flip through (and not many available). I also recommend calibre. And the "collections" (which is folders/tags)
DavidS - Dec 22, 2010 6:22:33 am PST #13323 of 28706
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Today is Kenneth Rexroth's birthday. I wrote about him for Hilo.
flea - Dec 22, 2010 6:24:45 am PST #13324 of 28706
information libertarian
I have somehow made Amazon recognize me as a US resident! And successfully downloaded Moby Dick (my lunchtime reading for the spring semester.)
I can see already that my greatest Kindle temptation is going to be romance novels. They run pretty cheap, for the most part ($4).
Ginger - Dec 22, 2010 6:28:46 am PST #13325 of 28706
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Make me step away from the Quality Paperback $9.99 for everything sale. I want to buy Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein for everyone.
Jesse - Dec 22, 2010 7:24:22 am PST #13326 of 28706
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can see already that my greatest Kindle temptation is going to be romance novels. They run pretty cheap, for the most part ($4).
And no one sees the covers! Per that NYTimes (?) article.
Gudanov - Dec 22, 2010 8:34:58 am PST #13327 of 28706
Coding and Sleeping
When I consider buying ebooks that I already own in actual book format.
It is tempting. I have yet to buy an e-book though, everything I've gotten is free so far. I would have bought two by now, but they weren't available as eBooks. Didn't end up buying them at all.