[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 07 May 2014 - 07:24 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 06 May 2014 - 06:22 PM, said:

Abyss, on 06 May 2014 - 06:19 PM, said:

Pretty much moving all my book purchases to ebook and reserving dead tree for special eds, signings and used.

That's a brave step sir. And not easy to do. I commend you.

It's basic math to me... on the one hand is a single slim piece of tech that pretty much takes up less space than an mmpb, has its own light, adjustable font and allows me to carry along every other book in the series, usually searchable, in case i want to look something up and if i happen to finish the book i can grab the next one in literally seconds, vs paper and cardboard that i sometimes have to hold open with one of both hands, requires exterior light, can rip or stain and in the case of hardcovers is inconveniently massive such that i can't conveniently take it anywhere. I find even when i pull a dead tree artifact out of the TRPFH these days i catch myself wishing it was an ebook.

Indeed. I'm NEARLY there. My goal when I began collecting books was to one day have a nice big library, which will double as my man cave (this will be in the offing when the Mrs and I buy our first house), which is why I've still bought so many dead tree books. But it's FAIRLY respectable now,and aside from grabbing a few more Classics that I feel should be on the shelf, I think I'm nearing critical mass for what I could FIT into said Library Man Cave anyways.

I've purposely bought specific volume collection of Tolkien for this purpose, and my Harry Potter books are all hardcover and in tip-top shape...ect.

The first real test has been BLOOD SONG. It's a book I absolutely LOVED, and yet because I didn't know if I'd like it I bought it eBook...and now every time I see the behemoth hardcover in the store I have to fight myself NOT to buy it in physical form.

But I'll give an example, I'm taking BROKEN HOMES on my honeymoon...and I probably SHOULD have bought it eBook, but the collector in me (who owns the first three books in MMPB) NEEDS that next physical copy...even though I KNOW that the kindle will be WAY easier to read traveling.

BLOOD SONG is a great choice for me because it's the beginning of as series, and the compunction to COLLECT the next one, isn't as strong. But it's still fucking hard.

This is also true of Barclay's Raven series and Gemmell's Rigante series both of which I've only been buying and reading in eBook form.

I think the day I eBook a Dresden file...I might just be ready to switch over fully like you. a VERY small part of me is telling me to eBook SKIN GAME...but the rest of the collection seems like it will be so lonely on the shelf.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: 9 times out of 10 the physical MMPB is $1-2 cheaper than the eBook which weighs on my decision too.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 07 May 2014 - 07:52 PM

[worry]

Mods please edit QT's post so it no longer says "man cave", thanks in advance!

[worry]

I'm finding it's more difficult to go digital when it's mid-series and I already have the earlier paperbacks, but I'm trying to get over that. I'm buying the Malazan and ASOIF stuff in analog, but besides that I'm gung ho on the ebooks.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 07 May 2014 - 07:49 PM, said:

... My goal when I began collecting books was to one day have a nice big library, which will double as my man cave (this will be in the offing when the Mrs and I buy our first house), which is why I've still bought so many dead tree books. But it's FAIRLY respectable now,and aside from grabbing a few more Classics that I feel should be on the shelf, I think I'm nearing critical mass for what I could FIT into said Library Man Cave anyways.

Fair point and i concede that my urban dweller status with resulting less space means an massive sprawling library will never happen. I do, however, have a lovely collection of GNs and while i cheerfully read globs of comics on the marvel meth these days, something like SANDMAN belongs in a solid form. I'm not a savage, dammit.

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The first real test has been BLOOD SONG. It's a book I absolutely LOVED, and yet because I didn't know if I'd like it I bought it eBook...and now every time I see the behemoth hardcover in the store I have to fight myself NOT to buy it in physical form.

Sure but you can wait a year and get the hb for $4.99 on clearanece when the mmpb streets.

But I'll give an example, I'm taking BROKEN HOMES on my honeymoon...and I probably SHOULD have bought it eBook, but the collector in me (who owns the first three books in MMPB) NEEDS that next physical copy...even though I KNOW that the kindle will be WAY easier to read traveling.

getting over the 'must have everything in series in same format' obsession is hard as fuck.

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I think the day I eBook a Dresden file...I might just be ready to switch over fully like you. a VERY small part of me is telling me to eBook SKIN GAME...but the rest of the collection seems like it will be so lonely on the shelf.

Whereas i'm going to fondly keep my STORM FRONT old cover mmpb and my signed BACK-UP and my GNs,and the gloriously clear an entire shelf.

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ADDITIONAL NOTE: 9 times out of 10 the physical MMPB is $1-2 cheaper than the eBook which weighs on my decision too.

That fluctuates and if the price dif were massive it might sway me. a buck or 2 i'm happy to have the ebook reading option rather than yet another brick i the TRPFHAB.

[Primateus]

I bought Neal Asher's Gridlinked, the first in the Agent Cormac series. I've been eyeballing this book for quite a while now and hopefully it'll prove a worthwhile investment.

[QuickTidal]

Primateus, on 08 May 2014 - 03:34 PM, said:

I bought Neal Asher's Gridlinked, the first in the Agent Cormac series. I've been eyeballing this book for quite a while now and hopefully it'll prove a worthwhile investment.

I read that and enjoyed it, but it makes me sad that I can't read any more in the series since I'd heard about Asher's right-wing, global-warming denying stance...one which he enforces even on Twitter with a vehemence that is scary.

Now I can't look at his books on the shelf without seeing the utter crazy person behind them.

[Traveller]

Not bought. But my daughter got 3 books from the library today.

We sat down to read the one with the nicely drawn animals on the front... it has an Otter, a Hare, a Fox and a Mole all living in a house happily.

Two pages in and well-loved Fox walks into the woods after feeling ill, lays down, and is later found under some leaves, still and cold, by his friends..

I really must learn to read the back of these before we start reading them.

[Primateus]

QuickTidal, on 08 May 2014 - 03:50 PM, said:

Primateus, on 08 May 2014 - 03:34 PM, said:

I bought Neal Asher's Gridlinked, the first in the Agent Cormac series. I've been eyeballing this book for quite a while now and hopefully it'll prove a worthwhile investment.

I read that and enjoyed it, but it makes me sad that I can't read any more in the series since I'd heard about Asher's right-wing, global-warming denying stance...one which he enforces even on Twitter with a vehemence that is scary.

Now I can't look at his books on the shelf without seeing the utter crazy person behind them.

That just makes it hotter! I feed on other people's craziness. I'd melt it in a spoon and inject it into my veins with a smile on my face if I could

[Morgoth]

QuickTidal, on 08 May 2014 - 03:50 PM, said:

Primateus, on 08 May 2014 - 03:34 PM, said:

I bought Neal Asher's Gridlinked, the first in the Agent Cormac series. I've been eyeballing this book for quite a while now and hopefully it'll prove a worthwhile investment.

I read that and enjoyed it, but it makes me sad that I can't read any more in the series since I'd heard about Asher's right-wing, global-warming denying stance...one which he enforces even on Twitter with a vehemence that is scary.

Now I can't look at his books on the shelf without seeing the utter crazy person behind them.

If it makes you feel any better, the books take a sharp decline in quality around book 3. Not worth the effort in my opinion.

I didn't know about his views, but it makes me extra pleased that I didn't continue reading his books.

[Abyss]

Morgoth, on 09 May 2014 - 06:40 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 08 May 2014 - 03:50 PM, said:

Primateus, on 08 May 2014 - 03:34 PM, said:

I bought Neal Asher's Gridlinked, the first in the Agent Cormac series. I've been eyeballing this book for quite a while now and hopefully it'll prove a worthwhile investment.

I read that and enjoyed it, but it makes me sad that I can't read any more in the series since I'd heard about Asher's right-wing, global-warming denying stance...one which he enforces even on Twitter with a vehemence that is scary.

Now I can't look at his books on the shelf without seeing the utter crazy person behind them.

If it makes you feel any better, the books take a sharp decline in quality around book 3. Not worth the effort in my opinion.

I didn't know about his views, but it makes me extra pleased that I didn't continue reading his books.

I really enjoyed COWL and the SPATTERJAY books, was looking fwd to the Cormac series the next time iw as jonesing for some hard non-mil SF... it's been parked in the TRPTBTY for ages.

I'm less bothered by an author who denied global warming than i am by say, OSCard's views on homosexuality. Asher is a science FICTION author... where it comes to science, he's not going to influence anyone who wasn't going there anyways. On a social/psychological front tho', an author could influence a reader's views, because the connection is more 'human'.

The late Michael Crighton was famously anti-global warming, but he gave us Jurassic Park (and a whole lot of much less impressive books)... he'll always be known more being for the guy who made dinosaurs cool again than for thinking 6 billion people can't affect a planet. Card, otoh, was/is majorly reviled.

[worry]

Plus it doesn't matter what authors believe about global warming because it's too late. All our children will die of cancer and all of their children will die of worse. A bloody, violent, fully self-aware extinction by 2100.

[polishgenius]

Abyss, on 09 May 2014 - 02:46 PM, said:

The late Michael Crighton was famously anti-global warming, but he gave us Jurassic Park (and a whole lot of much less impressive books)... he'll always be known more being for the guy who made dinosaurs cool again than for thinking 6 billion people can't affect a planet. Card, otoh, was/is majorly reviled.

It's not Crichton's views on global warming that make him a scumbag. It's that when one high-profile journalist (Michael Crowley) criticised him for them, he wrote him into his next book as a child molester.

[dits]

i bought skin game by jim butcher 2 days ago. binge read it and finished it this morning.

[worry]

You have betrayed us all.

[Ukjent]

How dare you, give it to my asap. You blasphemer haven't eaven manage to read it out yet, don't understand how it even possible.

[QuickTidal]

dits, on 13 May 2014 - 07:03 AM, said:

i bought skin game by jim butcher 2 days ago. binge read it and finished it this morning.

I fear that the members Dresdencrack addicts on this board may enact something like this (upon news of a 3-week early release/read)

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 13 May 2014 - 10:27 AM

[Puck]

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon. So much for my 'no new books until I finish uni' resolution. But.. 66% off at Bookdepository and I just couldn't stay strong in the face of that!

Also, some other non-fiction I've been fawning over for a while that's also some significant percent off. Oooh, the happiness, this got to be bliss!

[QuickTidal]

I bought CORDELIA'S HONOR by Lois McMaster Bujold.

I keep hearing about this series, so I'm chuffed to give it a go.

[Ukjent]

Finally got myself The Crimson Campaign, now I only need time.

[Serenity]

Masters of Rome Collection (Books 1 to 5 - er, sorry, I to V) by Colleen McCullough (£15 on Kindle)

Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold


ETA: and Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead

This post has been edited by Serenity: 16 May 2014 - 08:36 AM