But if you have the Kindle app on your pc or whatnot, you can read Kindle books.

But if you have the Kindle app on your pc or whatnot, you can read Kindle books.

Yep. I have the Kindle app on my laptop, phone, and iPad.

B&N downloads an epub file that can be put on most anything.

Eenteresting. I see some experimenting with my Kobo in the very near future. (Thanks!)

I am such a Skulduggery junkie now.

Yay! How far are you, now?

I ended up finding a deal on Books 1-5 in paperback and buying them.

I'm so fanatical that I bought 4-6 from the UK because they were released there AGES before they were released here.

How many books are there supposed to be?

Book ideas anyone? I'm trying to come up with a few more lists for our book salon.

Here are the four themes I'm mulling over:
Turning Japanese (fiction about Japan and Japanese authors)
Go West, Young Man! (books about the frontier)
1 Picture = 1000 Words (books about art and artists)
American History X Libris (Am. history--this was a request from a salonista, fiction or non-fiction I guess)

Remember these are just suggestions to pimp the topic, so I'm mostly looking for a dozen books or authors people recognize on seeing the name on the list. Classics or modern classics.

For "Turning Japanese" I have the following, but I need to pare it down a bit so I'd love to hear from anyone that's read any of these (I've only read Silence, which is awesome):
The Woman in the Dunes (Kōbō Abe)
Shogun (James Clavell)
The Samurai (Shusaku Endo)
Silence (Shusaku Endo)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Beauty and Sadness (Yasunari Kawabata)
The Sound of the Mountain (Yasunari Kawabata)
Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
Spring Snow (Sea of Fertility #1)(Yukio Mishima)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell)
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yoko Ogawa)
The Book of Tea (Kakuzō Okakura)
Kokoro (Natsume Sōseki)
I Am a Cat (Natsume Sōseki)
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
The Makioka Sisters (Junichiro Tanizaki)
Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura)
The Samurai's Garden (Gail Tsukiyama)

Thanks in advance!

Memoirs of a Geisha is an easy, good read and I imagine would be popular with a lot of people. I'm sort of opposed on principle to a novel in the voice of a Japanese woman written by a white man, but it's well done.

I've also read Norwegian Wood. It's very Murakami. I find him difficult, vague and moody. Not my style.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell)

Is one of my favorite books ever. You could also do his Dream Number9, which is also pretty great, but Thousand Autumns is a better book.

Go West, Young Man!

Westering Man is a biography of Joseph Rutherford Walker, and I thought a good read.

Go West, Young Man! (books about the frontier)

My Antonia.