Fair enough. I keep poking at what I did and didn't like about it, for some reason, and having someone else's reactions to consider seems helpful.

Humble Bundle currently has 38 of the Discworld books in its current bundle (for the Kobo reader) for $18 or more: [link] .

For the Bujold fans, there's a new Penric & Desdemona novella out, called Demon Daughter.

Thanks for the info Susan, I wouldn’t have known otherwise! I feel like Amazon is shockingly bad at telling me “hey there’s a new book in that series you like” or even having a way to sign up to tell me that.

I feel like Amazon is shockingly bad at telling me “hey there’s a new book in that series you like” or even having a way to sign up to tell me that.

The team that would have pushed this feature out was laid off exactly one year ago today. (RIP Comixology...)

Jessica it shocks me that feature hasn’t been available for years! It seems like a no brainer to be able to sign up for notifications on a series or an author. They at one point had notifications for an author but they didn’t really work like they were supposed to.

I get notifications from Amazon about particular author books by "following" the author.

For example, here's Fran's author page. Click the "follow" button under her name and you'll be notified when her next book is released. [link]

I’ve tried that before and it only sometimes worked, weirdly. Or it would only tell me after something was out already, etc. plus there are some authors where I like one series but not others of theirs…

Meanwhile Amazon frequently sends me emails about books I “might like”, that bear no resemblance to anything I’ve ever bought for myself or others.

I seem to get a lot of these type of messages from Goodreads. But if you're not already on it, it'd be a pretty labor-heavy way to get set up with books you've marked "read" and/or authors you follow to get notified of new stuff.