Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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."


Gris - Nov 07, 2011 7:26:05 am PST #16796 of 28282
Hey. New board.

But still, yay! Drew has been waiting to borrow books from my kindle for ages. One a month total, though? Not so yay.

This is different. Lending a Kindle book you have purchased to somebody else is just like the Nook: I believe you can lend each book you have purchased exactly one time, for up to 2 weeks at a time. Some books don't let you do it, but most do. And I don't think there's a restriction on how often you can lend/borrow, if you're doing different books each time.

The Lending Library is something else again: Amazon is essentially allowing you to borrow books from them with different rules. Those are the once-a-month but as long as you want borrows. I read that Amazon is actually paying the publishers each time a book is borrowed, essentially eating the cost of the books, at least right now. They're trying to convince the publishers that it could bring in revenue somehow.

Meg and I simply share an Amazon account so we don't have to use the lend feature to lend books to each other. But I have lended Kindle books to friends now and again.


§ ita § - Nov 07, 2011 7:28:48 am PST #16797 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You can share an Amazon account across two Kindles? I mean, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to--I have my Nook library loaded on all my devices except my PC, and that's because I never relax with it. But it's on 5 others.


Jessica - Nov 07, 2011 7:31:41 am PST #16798 of 28282
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You can share an Amazon account across two Kindles?

Yes, or any other Kindle-app devices. I have my account on 2 Kindles, my iPhone and my iPad.


Gris - Nov 07, 2011 8:46:18 am PST #16799 of 28282
Hey. New board.

Yeah, we have ours on 2 kindles, my old iPhone, Meg's iPhone, my Android, my work PC, Meg's work PC, and my Mac laptop.


Atropa - Nov 07, 2011 9:41:23 am PST #16800 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Yeah, I've got the Kindle app on my phone, laptop, and iPad. Which means I can have Dracula, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Night Circus with me ALL THE TIME.


§ ita § - Nov 07, 2011 10:18:18 am PST #16801 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm trying to make shelves on my Nook, and I can't because everything that's not YA or SFF has nothing to do with each other. I just get impulses. I hope I do actually finish Fear Of Flying, though.


Amy - Nov 07, 2011 10:21:39 am PST #16802 of 28282
Because books.

I have to read The Night Circus. I should pay my library fines, because I've way overbought books recently.

ita, shelve it in YA. That's when I read it!


Connie Neil - Nov 07, 2011 10:29:24 am PST #16803 of 28282
brillig

I made a Shelf called General for hte stuff that's not various flavors of fic or mystery series.


§ ita § - Nov 07, 2011 10:32:16 am PST #16804 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ita, shelve it in YA. That's when I read it!

To be honest, me too...


Atropa - Nov 07, 2011 10:48:40 am PST #16805 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Amy, you MUST read The Night Circus! I need more people to wibble at about it! It's a gorgeous book. And (very importantly to me), while it is gorgeous and I want to live in it, it doesn't fill me with despair about what *I'M* writing. Which, yes, I was worried about before I read it.