✬ Get yer red hot bargains here! ✬ Part 5

New thread! Please check the last several posts in the old thread as many of those deals are still active. Thanks!

Not sure if this is just for today or if it's ongoing but The Kingdom of Copper is $2.99 on Amazon right now.

It's Prime Day, I gotta go check out the deals.

>3 littlegeek: There are a bunch of books that have already been on sale on and off during the last month or so, but I didn't feel compelled to buy any of the ones I hadn't already snagged. I was sorely tempted by the new waterproof Paperwhite, but I couldn't rationalize the purchase as mine is only about 15 months old.

I did order the PS4 Pro, though. I've been using my PS3 as a bluray player (and up until recently my main streaming device) for over 10 years, and it's still working well, but there are a few apps that aren't supported anymore due to its age. (I'm looking at you, HBO GO.)

>4 clamairy: We got a new apple.tv recently for that reason.

My Kindle works just fine. I hold on to devices until they are no longer supported. I don't get why people want to always be in debt and paying for the latest thing.

My then 5 year old Paperwhite was working fine, but the resolution on the 2018 version was better, and you could dim it to almost nothing for reading at night. So I splurged when it was on sale and gave my daughter the old one. She loves it. But I have to admit a waterproof one would be great for my new life. I just keep mine in a ziplock bag when I'm on the beach.

>6 clamairy: "I just keep mine in a ziplock bag when I'm on the beach."

That's a great idea. Keeps out moisture and sand in one fell swoop, (obligatory, "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.")

Kindle US daily deal has Bloody Rose for $2.99 today.

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence is currently available on Amz.fr and maybe other places as well for 1.49€.

TODAY ONLY: The first half of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun for $2.99:
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B008S0E77Q
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B008S0E77Q

Mira (Seanan McGuire) Grant's fantastic Into the Drowning Deep is $2.99:
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B06Y5L7H71
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B06Y5L7H71

Meg Elison's Road to Nowhere trilogy is $1.99 per volume. I've only read the first two, but it's a post-apocalyptic series with a lot to say about gender, and really made me think. I just grabbed the third book today.
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B01DAD218C
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B01DAD218C
The Book of Etta
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B01JOEK5Y8
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B01JOEK5Y8
The Book of Flora
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B07G12QFP2
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B07G12QFP2

In the Woods and The Shadow of the Wind for Kindle are on sale for $1.99 each.

If you are an Amazon Prime member, they are offering many of Tolkien's works to read for free in the Prime reading program. I don't really know how to give you the link without linking it to my own account.

The Best of Gene Wolfe is only $2.99 right now:
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B002ASFQ5E
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B002ASFQ5E

Sarah Chorn's Seraphina's Lament is 99¢: http://amazon.com/dp/B07MPYWVQG

Mockingbird by Walter Tevis is currently $1.99 at Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/Mockingbird-Walter-Tevis-ebook/dp/B07H166YQ3/?tag=bg-u00-...

No idea if this is a deal or just a regular price, but I just snapped up Early Riser by Jasper Fforde for 1,99 (euro's) at Google, saw the same price at Kobo.

Sourdough is on a Kindle special today. Of course I bought my copy a couple of weeks ago.

>16 MrsLee: - got me!

>16 MrsLee: ARGH. I hate when that happens. :o(

I saw an Insta post that The Calculating Stars is 0,99 on Amazon Kindle. Don't know where (not Amazon.de :()

>19 divinenanny: It's 99p on Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Calculating-Stars-Lady-Astronaut-Book-ebook/dp/B07QKTNM...

>20 Maddz: :( snif

I wish publishers would embrace the international ebook market more...

>21 divinenanny: Seconded. The number of Open Road ebooks I'd dearly love to have...

>22 Maddz: The number of Macmillan/Tor deals I would have snapped up.... :(

>23 divinenanny: If you're talking about the Tor monthly freebies, I just lie and use TunnelBear to download. Same as when I buy a HumbleBundle with geo-restrictions...

>24 Maddz: Oh no, you don't even need TunnelBear for those freebies, just the lying (You do need TunnelBear for the HB geo-restrictions). No, I'm talking about sales like how they had Murderbot 2 on sale a while back (I think 9 euro's for a novella is a bit steep), and more of those sales. And they are never in the EU (and I doubt the UK either).

>25 divinenanny: Oh gawd yes. I want those too.

I want the Ben Aaronvitch October Man novella but object to paying almost as much as for a novel... When it came out I went "Squee! How much?" I got burnt on The Furthest Station. (What would have made it worth the price would have been adding in the short stories - I asked him when he was going to publish them as a book and he said he hadn't got enough word count yet.)

Same reason I marked some of the Hugo novella nominees down because they were #x in a series and the rest of the series was too expensive to purchase (and weren't in the Hugo packet). The only novellas I thought reasonably prices were the rest of the Binti series, but I wasn't sufficiently interested to add them in.

>26 Maddz:

I made an exception for Ben Aaronovitch because I am just a big fan, so my birthday money is going to a hard cover of The October Man and I bought The Furthest Station full price too, knowing it was just a novella. I did get burned on Ajax Penumbra 1969 which barely counts as a novella I think and I just did not check if it was a full book or not. I also bought The Slow Regard of Silent Things hard copy, I just could not resist a new if short Rothfuss.

I do try to check ISFDB if the novella's on my wishlist are in any anthologies, but for parts in series after the first that is very unlikely :(

Monthly Kindle deals in English on Amz.fr seem to include, on the speculative fiction front :

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Soldier by Neal Asher
The Tiger and the Wolf and Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A Time of Dread by John Gwynne
The Ambassador's Mission by Trudi Canavan
The Shifting Tides series y James Maxwell (YA)
The Harbinger series by Jeff Wheeler (YA)
The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
The Icefire trilogy by Patty Jansen

A number of independent SF/F authors also seem to be running joint discounts on an assortment of books/sets at the moment.

Blood of Elves by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Witcher #3) is 99p in todays Amazon.co.uk Daily Deal:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Elves-Witcher-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0043M66Z4/ref=lp_5...

>29 Maddz: *Andrzej Sapkowski

>29 Maddz: Blood of Elves is by Andrzej Sarpkowski

Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Tiger and the Wolf and The Cage of Souls are also in today's Amazon.co.uk limited time deal for 99p (and have just joined my library).

>30 Jarandel:, >31 -pilgrim-: My mistake. Neither are an author I read so I was conflating the two.

>31 -pilgrim-: They’re in the monthly deal not the daily so they’ll be around for a couple of weeks.

>32 Maddz: I read both, so I recognized the problem immediately - and it led me to find 2 new books by Tchaikovsky, so it was a serendipitous slip!

Sunshine by Robin McKinley on Kobo and, I think, others for $1.99. Available in Canada, but probably also other countries. This is quite different from other Robin McKinley books I've read, but I loved it.

Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence is currently 1€49 on Amz.fr and maybe other places as well.

The Garden of Evening Mists is on sale for $2.99 from Amazon today. This is a truly remarkably read. If you don't want to spend the money you might want to consider borrowing it.

Audible is having a 2-for-1 credit sale - mysteries, thrillers & some sci-fi/fantasy. I hope I can find a couple cool things!

A book pilgrim enjoyed, The Orc of Many Questions is free on USA Amazon today.

It's still free today, so I snagged it. Thanks to both of you.

>36 clamairy: Agreed. The Garden of Evening Mists is a remarkable book. His The Gift of Rain is good, too.

>40 jnwelch: I have that one for my kindle, but haven't gotten to it yet. Many thanks for the reminder. I'm going to make sure it's downloaded.

>41 clamairy: :-)

Seanan McGuire's two Indexing books are only $0.99 right now. A fantastic premise, and McGuire milks it for all it's worth:
US:
http://amazon.com/dp/B00CDXPL3I
http://amazon.com/dp/B00X6AXV84
CA:
http://amazon.ca/dp/B00CDXPL3I
http://amazon.ca/dp/B00X6AXV84

>43 saltmanz: Book 2 is 98p on Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Indexing-Reflections-Seanan-McGuire-ebook/dp/B00X6AXV84...

But Book 1 is full price.

>44 Maddz: At least both are available on Kindle Unlimited.

I see that Spinning Silver is on sale for $2.99. No idea if that's a daily deal or limited time.

>46 Narilka: I picked it up at that price on Tuesday, for what that's worth.

Dave Duncan's A Man of His Word four-book series, which starts with Magic Casement is on sale for $2.99 on Kobo and Amazon in Canada, and maybe elsewhere. I really like Dave Duncan, and this is some of his best.

>46 Narilka: I think that one has been on sale for at least a week.

I snagged Angle of Repose even though I know I could have borrowed it for free. This one has been on my TBR for a decade at least.

>48 NorthernStar: I see the ratings are quite high for the series, but (and I'm almost too ashamed to admit this) the cover art is a real turn-off for me.

Angle of Repose is terrific. A little frustrating to this 21st century woman, but still a good novel. I think I've read it 3 times. Have two copies.

>51 Bookmarque: I've never heard anything other than praise for this one. I have a hardcover in a box somewhere. I had digital rewards due to expire in a few days, so this seemed like a worthy way to spend them.

I loved Angle of Repose, even though parts of it are dated. It's so good!

>50 clamairy: the cover art for the collection (which is showing me a box set with the titles on the spines) or of the individual books?

>54 NorthernStar: The cover art I'm seeing for the whole series here on LT look like a bunch of Disney princesses.

https://www.librarything.com/series/A+Man+of+His+Word

(That must be my own bias showing.)

>55 clamairy: yes, but it is all the same princess, and she is a main character. And maybe the covers are a bit dated, but I like them. I don't remember how closely they stick to the descriptions in the book.

I don't read her, but Octavia Butler fans can get the complete four-volume Patternist series for $6 in the US market.

>57 Bookmarque: Not in the UK, unfortunately.

>56 NorthernStar: I'm sure they're great. (And those are probably old covers.)

>57 Bookmarque: I would, but I SWORE I'd read the ones of hers I already bought before I get any more.

A lot (although not all) of Martin Cruz Smith's novels are in the Kindle Daily Deal at Amazon UK for £0.99 each.

Becky Chambers' powerful A Closed and Common Orbit (the second in her Wayfarers series, though largely unrelated to the first book) is only $1.99 for a limited time (US only): http://amazon.com/dp/B01CNLOZ3G

Jim C. Hines' Terminal Alliance is on for $1.99 CDN today. May be on sale in other locations.

The entire Expanse series is the US Kindle deal of the day. Book range from $1.99-$5.99.

Looks like The Stormlight Archive books are also all on sale today, $2.99 each.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's excellent Signal to Noise is only 99c right now:
US: https://amazon.com/dp/B00T6TP0QU
CA: https://amazon.ca/dp/B00T6TP0QU
UK: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B00T6TP0QU

A couple of Kindle omnibus deals for December:

Robin Hobb's complete Rain Wilds Chronicles quartet is just $2.99
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B00KACIL5O
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B00KACIL5O

Feist's Riftwar Legacy trilogy is also $2.99
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B00KVIBX1G
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B00KVIBX1G

>66 saltmanz: Thanks for the info. Seriously considering the Hobb quartet.

>67 clamairy: My pleasure! I already had the first two Hobb books, but $3 for the last two is still a steal! (Plus, I'm always a sucker for a big omnibus edition.)

>68 saltmanz: I saw how highly rated it was and cashed in some digital rewards.

Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence is 1€11 today on Amz.fr and maybe other places as well. His King of Thorns is 1€92.

The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling is 1€72.

Looks like a wider discount on some HarperVoyager ebooks.

>70 Jarandel: How've you been, btw?

The wonderful News of the World is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon right now.

>72 clamairy: Great book!

The Ruin of Kings is FREE today for Kindle US.

>74 Narilka: &%$#! I missed it! :o(

Tad Williams' The Heart of What Was Lost is currently 1€30 on amazon.fr and maybe other places as well.

>75 clamairy: It's only $2.99 right now: http://amazon.com/dp/B07C75P1R6

>77 saltmanz: Thanks!

Latest Tor freebie is TRUTHWITCH by Susan Dennard:

https://ebookclub.tor.com/

>79 clamairy: They have offered this one for free before (I have a record of acquiring this work as an ePub from tor.com in 2007-12-31). No idea what the deal was then, this was before the ebookclub I think.

Kingdom of Copper is $1.99 right now for Kindle US. Not sure if this is a daily deal or just limited time.

Several Orbit eBooks on sale. Prices are in GBP, but are converted one-on-one to Euro's in my case. Should be available at all major eBook sellers (Amazon, Apple, Google, Kobo, WHSmith and ebooks.com)

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher -> 1,99
Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan -> 0,99
Devices and Desires by K. J. Parker -> 0,99
Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan -> 0,99
Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan -> 0,99
The Fall of Shannara (The Black Elfstone) by Terry Brooks -> 0,99
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs -> 0,99
84K by Claire North -> 0,99
A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan -> 0,99

Every Heart a Doorway is FREE for Kindle US today.

>83 Narilka: Thanks for this. The 2nd book, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, was a TOR freebie a while back so I had intended to borrow this first book from the library. Now I can take it off the Overdrive hold list.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2019 Edition by Elizabeth Bear is free right now and it's very easy to snag in multiple formats from MacMillan: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250776785

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is $2.99 at amazon right now.
I loved this one.

Rebellion Publishing is having a sale of DRM free e-books: https://www.rebellionstore.com/sale
It's for Valentine's Week but I don't know the exact end date

Some good SFFH, including
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
Engineering Infinity (anthology) edited by Jonathan Strahan
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

(and 16 more)
All for GBP 0,99 a piece

The Eon series by Greg Bear in on sale - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071YMZ3RT?tag=ebbdaily-20&ebb_sid=3c73030fdfa133e...

The Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty is on sale for $1.99.

Today's Amazon daily deal is 6 Mark Lawrence books - 3 each from the Red Sister and Broken Empire sequences - for £0.99 each.

Tor's free e-book of the month is Redshirts by John Scalzi, if there's anybody out there who hasn't read it. :) https://ebookclub.tor.com

>91 YouKneeK: I have not read it. Unfortunately, I am not a resident of the USA or Canada either.

>92 -pilgrim-: In the past, people have said they were able to get it without being in the U.S. or Canada, despite what it says. Are they checking now and it no longer works?

I think you can still get it, though you might have to check a box that implies you live across the pond to get it.

I loved this one, BTW.

>91 YouKneeK: It still works. Just say you are in the US and it works, they don't do an IP check or anything.

For lovers of the classic British whodunit, the Kindle edition of Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert is free today on Amazon UK.

I received an email from Smashwords about an ebook sale:

"Smashwords authors asked that we run a special sale to help their readers cope with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. We listened. Now though April 20, the Authors Give Back sale offers thousands of ebooks discounted 30-100%."

I picked up a couple of Lindsay Buroker books, since I've heard her name bandied about in the Green Dragon lately. (I'm looking at you, -pilgrim-)

3-4 of Tolkien's works are on sale for Kindle US today, including The Silmarillion and Beren and Luthien.

Kindle UK has Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno Garcia for 99p at the moment. There are a few other F & SF titles, but this was the one that caught my eye.

Harper Collins Canada is hosting a March Madness bracket for books, and all the titles are available for under $5, and many are use 2.99, for the month of March I believe.
http://hccmarchmadness.ca/brackets/
Here’s the link to the list of books; you can get the books on whatever platform you like. I’m not sure if this is only in Canada or not.

>99 Sakerfalcon: Also for 99 cents (Euro in my case) on Google Play (NL in my case)

Angry Robot have reduced all their e-book prices as follows:

All our frontlist titles are now only £4.99*, so you can buy even more of our brilliant brand new books.

Our huge backlist of the best in SF, F, and WTF?! is only £3.99!*

And as an extra-special incentive, we’ve made the first book in every multi-book series we’ve published only £2.99*, so it’s even easier to take a chance on a new book, and hopefully find a new series to devour.

*For our lovely US readers, these prices work out** to about $US6.50, $US5.20 and $US4.00 for frontlist, backlist and first-book-in-a-series titles respectively.

>102 AHS-Wolfy:
Not only that, but use the code SHELFISOLATION at checkout and you get 50% off everything (this month)

All the Narnia books are on sale today for $1.99 each for Kindle US.

>104 Narilka: I'm tempted, but I have to admit I really fear a visit from the suck fairy if I try to reread those.

The Lions of Al-Rassan is $1.99 from Amazon today.

Robin Mckinley's Outlaws of Sherwood on for 1.99 today.

>107 NorthernStar: I was looking at that. Have you read it?

>108 clamairy: - yes, quite some time ago, but I liked it.

>109 NorthernStar: It's still on sale, so I might snag it.

Yoon Ha Lee's "Machineries of Empire" books are on sale for GBP 0,99 each at https://www.rebellionstore.com/sale
Ninefox Gambit
Raven Stratagem
Revenant Gun
Hexarchate Stories

Today only, TOR is offering John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire for free.

>112 NorthernStar: I got all excited about this when I saw the email this morning, and then I remembered I've already bought it.

>113 clamairy: Same here, but it's a great deal if you don't already have it.

>114 NorthernStar: Agreed!

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is currently FREE to US Audible members. Not sure about other countries.

>116 Narilka: OOOH, thanks for the heads up!

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead is $3.99 and if you have the intestinal fortitude, and you haven't read this one yet it is well worth the time and money.

This is not for the squeamish or faint-hearted.

In the Woods by Tana French is $2.99 for right now.

Bunch of good deals today on Barnes and Noble, which are more than likely on special elsewhere as well... https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/blockbuster-bestsellers-under-5/_/N-2g4o?Nrpp=4...

>120 Marissa_Doyle: Yes, that looks like the Amazon list. I'm on the fence over a few things.

Bunch of freebies for the Kindle available. Looks like a whole lotta crap, to be honest, but there are some classics there. Hopefully the link works for everyone:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_34117130_489357980_pe_ecg/?node=201...

Becky Chambers novella To Be Taught, If Fortunate is $1.99 today on Amazon.

Mary Robinette Kowal's The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky are 0,99 GBP each this week at the Rebellion Publishing Store

Art of War: Anthology is currently FREE for US Kindle. It's a collection of 40 short stories by fantasy authors.

>125 Narilka: Thank you. I'll snag it, though I'm not sure it sounds like my thing.

Powder Mage Trilogy by Brian McClellan is on sale at Amazon as an omnibus edition for $10.

It's Read the World free books week again. Haven't decided what to take yet. I took them all last year, and haven't read a single one yet. So I might be a bit choosier this year.

https://smile.amazon.com/article/read-the-world-2020

https://www.amazon.com/article/read-the-world-2020

The Tor.com eBookclub has the whole Murderbot series by Martha Wells is for free this week, one part everyday starting today.

>129 divinenanny: Oh that's awesome. Some of them I bought, but some I borrowed through OverDrive. Will snag the ones I don't have.

>129 divinenanny: Thanks for the heads-up! I've been meaning to get these for ages!

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles omnibus is on sale for $4.99 on Kindle US this week.

The Priory of the Orange Tree is $1.99 on Amazon right now.

The 5th and 6th Earthsea volumes are on sale for $2.99 each right now:
Tales from Earthsea - http://amazon.com/dp/B003ZX86BO
The Other Wind - http://amazon.com/dp/B004H1U22E

>130 clamairy: >131 Sakerfalcon:
No prob, I wanted these but the price was just too much for novella's, especially three (I got the first one through the eBook club a while back).

>135 divinenanny: I got All Systems Red in the Hugo packet last year. I was considering the others, but didn't as I already had too much to read. Besides, the price was too steep.

If I had the reading time, I might have gone for the remaining Binti novellas. I considered the price point on those to be more reasonable.

Ah well, waiting for #2 to drop over at Tor. I'm guessing that will be at around lunchtime (UK) today.

>136 Maddz: Isn't the Tor offer North America only? That was the response when I hit their website.

>137 haydninvienna: There is no region check if you happened to be anywhere else ;) Just select US.

Use Opera (it has a built in VPN) - and say you're in the US. They don't check.

Ryan North's hilarious and informative How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler is $1.99 right now:
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B07B2LNVBY
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B07B2LNVBY

>140 saltmanz: That's intriguing!

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is $1.99 on Amazon's US site right now.

The Lies of Locke Lamora is $3.99.

Does anyone recommend either of these titles?

The first one I did not finish, but that may have been my mood at the time, it is regarded as a good book generally.

The second I found amazing. Fantasy, bit of grim dark I seem to remember, but something I could not put down. I would put it in the line of Patrick Rothfuss or Joe Abercrombie.

>142 libraryperilous: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is on my top five favorite books ever list, but it's not for everyone.

>142 libraryperilous: Loved them both. Strange can be very dense and dry at times, but is still wry and dreamy and wonderful. Locke feels like it should be a light caper, so the couple of dark turns it takes can come as a shock, but otherwise it's highly enjoyable.

>143 divinenanny:, >144 Marissa_Doyle:, >145 saltmanz: Thank you! I appreciate the warning about the grim turn in The Lies of Locke Lamora. I don't prefer that even in cheerful times, so I think I'll skip the Lynch series for now. I'm very intrigued by the Clarke and hope to get to it in May.

very dense and dry at times, but is still wry and dreamy and wonderful

You are describing what I would count as a perfect story, and this is a lovely turn of phrase. I'm excited to try Jonathan Strange!

>144 Marissa_Doyle: >145 saltmanz: >146 libraryperilous: I tried The Lies of Locke Lamora a while back and quickly decided it wasn’t for me. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is on my side table with a bookmark in it. I will give it another shot. ... very dense and dry at times, but is still wry and dreamy and wonderful: that’s an uncommonly appealing description.

>143 divinenanny: >145 saltmanz: >146 libraryperilous: &>147 haydninvienna: I'm definitely giving it a try. I own a trade paperback and a digital copy, so have no excuse. Plus a bunch of people who I know share my tastes have raved about it.

>142 libraryperilous: - I didn't love either of those books. Lies is one of the few where my taste varies from my sister's. I borrowed it from her, didn't really like it a lot, and DNF'd the second in the series. Didn't like the characters or what they did. Jonathan Strange is not one I'm sorry I read, but I never really connected with the characters and now don't remember much about it.

>149 NorthernStar: Ha! I'm an only child, so I find sibling relationships fascinating. My mom and her sister don't really like the same kinds of books. On a few occasions, they've recommended books to each other and scored hits. One time, my mom recommended a mystery series to my aunt, and my aunt already had burned through all of the books. I think it was the Jack Reacher series.

>148 clamairy: I do wonder at the necessity of 1,000 pages. I suppose I would form an opinion on its length while reading at least some of those pages, wouldn't I?

>150 libraryperilous: Oh, I loved every page. :) When you read it, do not under any circumstances skip the footnotes. They're often very funny, and contain important info.

>150 libraryperilous: It is interesting. My mom and brother don't really read, while me and my dad do/did. I've given up on my mom, but have been able to entice my brother to read some YA stuff. He likes Harry Potter so I buy similar series for him, like the Hunger Games etc. He has admitted he does like to read those when he is on vacation, so small victories :D

I read far more than my sister does, and when she does read it is more likely to be non-fiction. My mum reads a lot, though mainly mysteries but my dad really didn't in spite of him commuting on the train every day (which is one of my main reading times). It is funny how different families are.

I enjoyed Locke Lamora the first time I read it, but when I tried to reread I had to put it down. It just seemed gratuitously grim and sweary and I wasn't in the mood. I think that's when I realised that I don't really like heist stories. I still think the setting is great but I'd like a different kind of story to take place there!

>151 Marissa_Doyle: I'm going to try this on Kindle. If the footnotes don't function smoothly, I'll have to wait until I have space on my shelves for such a voluminous volume.

>152 divinenanny: Aww, it's nice that you've helped him find something he likes when he's relaxing on vacation.

>153 Sakerfalcon: I feel like a grim heist kind of defeats the purpose of a heist plot anyway.

My parents both love to read, so I grew up around books. Oddly, I didn't have close friends who also were readers. I find middle grade novels in which the protagonist meets a book friend very charming. You read so intensely when you're young! It's nice to find someone your age to share in that.

The Library of the Unwritten is $2.99 at the US Amazon site at the moment.

My parents were also big readers, mostly non-fiction for both of them, but completely different areas of interest. Only when she got older did my mom start enjoying more fiction, especially spy novels like le Carre's.

I grew up in a house like C. S. Lewis describes "with books two deep on the shelves". I don't think my parents' tastes overlapped much either (his was the science and history, hers the Eng Lit, overlap on the novels) - but that gave me a wonderful range to dip into.

>155 clamairy:, >156 -pilgrim-: Yes, my parents have divergent tastes in books. My dad reads exclusively nonfiction: history and physics. My mom loves classics, poetry, and mysteries. I read in each of these subjects, although my science interest trends more toward zoology. I developed my own taste for adventure fiction as a child and became attracted to SFF as an adult.

I recently converted my mom to middle grade novels. She thought they wouldn't hold her interest; now she reads them regularly.

>154 libraryperilous: Footnotes in Kindle usually work pretty smoothly: click the footnote numeral to be taken to the footnote text, click the numeral again to be taken back to where you were (or just hit the back button if you're using an e-ink reader.)

>154 libraryperilous:, >158 saltmanz: Just one note on the Kindle footnotes, at least on the Kindle e-readers. Sometimes the longer footnotes get cut off in the popup and it’s isn’t apparent that you’re missing text. This was definitely the case for me with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and I've seen it in other books. The smaller footnotes work fine, but you can’t always tell if anything is cut off because it usually happens after a complete sentence or paragraph. Some of those footnotes are practically short stories in themselves. I’m not sure if the Kindle Fire had the same issue.

It’s still a pretty seamless process as long as you’re aware of the potential problem, but takes a couple extra screen touches on each footnote if you want to be sure you're seeing everything. On the e-readers, at least the more recent ones, when you touch the footnote it brings up a popup style window that overlays the text. From there, there's a link that will take you to the actual footnote location with the entire thing. Then like >158 saltmanz: described, there should be a quick way to return to the main text.

>158 saltmanz:, >159 YouKneeK: Thank you for this information and the tips. I have a Fire, and I only recently started using it to read e-books, not just play Fishdom, because *gestures at world*. My only previous knowledge of footnotes was a comment my mom made in passing after finishing A Gentleman in Moscow. She found reading the footnotes on her Fire kind of clunky.

Jack Glass is on offer for $1.99 on Amazon's US site.

Oh, and while I was browsing earlier I saw that Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief is on sale for $0.99.

>159 YouKneeK: Hunh, I've never seen a pop-up footnote before. Just Googled it, and it sounds like maybe it was a thing Amazon introduced with the Paperwhite? And it might also have to do with how the ebook itself was formatted. (I do have a Paperwhite, but I only just picked it up super-cheap at the used book store and haven't actually played around with it yet; my main reader is an old Kindle Touch, though I've read a book or two on my Fire HD 10 as well. Haven't come across any popups in either of those cases.)

>161 saltmanz: I came across them recently. I read eBooks either on my phone or on an 8th generation Fire.

I don't think it is how up-to-date your hardware is that is the issue, but whether the book's publishers are taking advantage of the latest developments in the software.

Lots of good stuff in this weeks sale for Kindle US. The Way of Kings, The Eye of the World, Gideon the Ninth, The Three Body Problem, A Memory Called Empire, The Collapsing Empire, Ender's Game and more are $2.99 or less right now. There goes my TBR lol

>163 Narilka: Nice! Thank you!

>163 Narilka: Excellent, thanks! Gideon the Ninth I actually bought in hardcover already as in impulse buy (that all-black first edition was too gorgeous) so I'm glad I can get the ebook on the cheap.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson is free from Tor.com today until midnight.

>163 Narilka: A Memory Called Empire is at £0.99 on Amazon Kindle UK. I have snagged it.

The Raven's Mark series by Ed McDonald, beginning with Blackwing, are all £0.99 there also.

Tomorrow (Monday May 4th) the Tor.com ebook club will have The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson for free.

>168 divinenanny: Awesome. That's one of the ones I didn't buy for kindle yet.

>168 divinenanny:
does anyone know if there is a difference between The Way of Kings Book 1 and The Way of Kings Part 1? I've gathered up all the "book 1" but don't want to combine if they are not the same.

http://www.librarything.com/work/24564144/editions

>170 2wonderY: It was split in two due to size. *Book* 1 is the entire book while *Part* 1 is the first half, so don't combine.

>170 2wonderY: Before looking to combine any works you should always check the disambiguation notice which is located towards the bottom of the common knowledge section. If there's any reason why an edition should be kept separate then it should appear there.

Rebellion Publishing (with imprints Solaris and Abaddon, genres SF, Fantasy & Horror) have just started with a free eBook of the month for newsletter subscribers. Subscribing also gives you access to three additional free eBooks. Link: http://bit.ly/RebFREEebook

Free eBook this month:
Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, edited by Jetse de Vries (genre: SF)

Free eBooks for signing up:
Fearsome Journeys, edited by Jonathan Strahan (genre: Fantasy)
The Culled by Simon Spurrier (Part of The Afterblight Chronicles (genre: SF/Horror, post-apocalyptical)
The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee (genre: Fantasy, sword & sorcery)

If you don't get the three books (the signup page looks different) or if you have signed up before, check this page to get them: http://www.rebellionpublishing.com/sign-up

>173 divinenanny: Thanks! I had actually just seen about Shine on Twitter, so I signed up, and then came here and saw your post about the other 3 freebies (I do already own Fearsome Journeys in e- and tree.) Oh, and it looks like I once entered a giveaway for The Sentinel Mage (that I didn't win), so that's neat.

>174 saltmanz:
It's also worth it to check that sign up page every now and then, because the free-book-for-signing-up selection changes and you can get the new selection too.

To Be Taught, If Fortunate is on sale at Amazon (NL at least) and Google Play. It's a novella by Becky Chambers and at 0,99 probably a lot better priced than at a full 8,99....

I seem to remember an enthusiastic discussion of the TV series Black Books somewhere hereabouts recently.

So it seemed to be appropriate to mention that Channel 4 (UK) is streaming it this weekend.

I just picked up Stephen Fry's Mythos for $3.99 on Barnes and Noble...I expect other US sites will have it for the same price.

Another TOR free ebook announced today, Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton available until May 23.

>179 NorthernStar: That was a fun book--Anthony Trollope, but with dragons instead of Victorians.

In celebration of Pride, the tor.com extra ebookclub selection is In Our Own Worlds #2, containing Miranda in Milan, Every Heart A Doorway, Sisters of the Vast Black and The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps.

Oh, and the free Rebellion book of the month is Food of the Gods by Cassandra Khaw

>181 divinenanny: Woot!

Once again, after sending me an email saying that the books were available, Tor tells me that I'm not a member, makes me re-register, and sends me an email thanking me for joining. This is at least the 15th month in a row that I've done this. 🥴 (I have emailed them for help twice, but nothing they suggested I try makes a difference.)

>183 clamairy:

It does that for me too. I think I have registered with all my e-mail addy's by now. It seems to refuse to remember my @me.com address. However, I only get the newsletters on that address. Go figure. I'm an illegal member though so I am not stirring the pot.....

I think there are a few Dutch followers of this thread? If so, the Harland award (for spec fiction) is now organised by Hebban, and to celebrate they have a free ePub of 7 winning stories of the past up: https://www.hebban.nl/artikelen/hebban-organiseert-de-harland-awards-schrijfweds...

The Kindle edition of The Mirror Empire, book 1 of Kameron Hurley's Worldbreaker saga is $0.99 today.

The House in the Cerulean Sea is $2.99 on the Amazon US site today.

>187 libraryperilous: That has a very high rating here on LT. I think I might borrow instead of buy, though.

I am still thinking about Binti which is on sale for $.99 right now.

The TOR freebie for this month is The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal!

>189 clamairy: Thanks! I have been meaning to read that book.

>190 ScoLgo: You're welcome! I had it on hold from OverDrive not that long ago. I postponed delivery twice and then cancelled it when about 6 books were ready at once.

Gaie Sebold's Babylon Steel is only 99 cents. The first in a fairly fun duology, easily worth the price:
US: http://amazon.com/dp/B006PKV4Q8
CA: http://amazon.ca/dp/B006PKV4Q8

StoryBundle has another World SF bundle up. $5 gets you the first 4 books; I nabbed it just for the Silvia Moreno-Garcia collection, Love & Other Poisons.

The Bear and the Nightingale is on sale for $2.99 right now. I was planning to borrow it through OverDrive, but snagged it instead.

The U.S. Amazon site has the Kindle edition of The Black Prism by Brent Weeks on sale for $2.99, today only. This book does go on sale fairly often, though.

I recently read this series and it has its issues, but I did enjoy the story quite a lot. For those who follow my thread, it's the one that recently inspired the Boob Quotient chart, which I blame on clamairy. (Well, I blame it on the author too.)

>194 YouKneeK: Bwaahaa! You can blame me for the creation of the chart, but not the content. I did see this was on sale, and wondered if any of the others in the series are ever offered. I'd bump it up my TBR list if I owned more of them.

>195 clamairy: LOL, that seems like a fair separation of blame! I’ve never noticed any of the sequels on sale, although it’s possible I’ve missed them.

Edited to correct: Tor's free book is Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh.

Sorry for the fork up.

>197 clamairy: It's actually Silver in the Wood, the first book in the series.

>198 amanda4242: You're right! And I'm glad because the other one is the 2nd in the series. LOL

The U.S. Amazon site has the Kindle edition of The Ten Thousand Doors of January on sale for $3.99 for today only. I snagged this one myself.

>200 YouKneeK: Oh! Just discovered it is released on audio as well, and my library system has it. Ordered. Never got my HB copy back from daughter.

>200 YouKneeK: I'm thinking about this one! It's cheaper than its usual cost, but not my preferred sale price of $1.99. (I've become stingier with my digital credits now that they are a little harder to come by.)

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's excellent Signal to Noise is only 99 cents/pence/etc on the Amazons:
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T6TP0QU
CA: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00T6TP0QU
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00T6TP0QU
Or you can get it direct from the publisher: https://rebellionpublishing.com/product/signal-to-noise/

Kindle US is having a large SFF sale today. I spotted The Way of Kings, Hyperion, Kingdom of Copper, The Dragonbone Chair, The Warded Man, Lock In, The Rook and more.

>204 Narilka: Thank you! I might have missed this sale. I grabbed City of Stairs.

>204 Narilka: Only The Rook available in the sale here (UK), but I nabbed that.

The wonderful Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman is $2.99 right now.

TOR's current free book is Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi. It's available for free download until August 22nd.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is $1.99 at Barnes and Noble...but honestly, it's much better to read as a paper book than e-book, because of the footnotes (which you don't want to skip, as they're both hilarious and provide clues about what's going on.)

Orbit has deals for:
0,99:
There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool
The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K S Villoso
The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J. Parker
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

1,99:
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

These prices can be found at most online retailers, check the Little, Brown site for direct links.

Stephen Fry's Mythos is $3.99 for Kindle right now.

Tor.com is giving away The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson until midnight Sept. 4th.

The highly rated and much praised The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin is $3.99. This might be a 'one day only' thing.

Will Wright's entire Cradle series, books 1-7, is on sale for FREE through Oct 7th in anticipation of Book 8's release. It's self published and has great reviews. At that price it's now in my TBR :)

>214 Narilka: On sale for nothin'! Who can resist that?

>215 clamairy: Not me.

Thanks Narilka.

>215 clamairy: Very easily once I 'looked inside'.

For those in the UK, Gateway have a big sale on:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_30%3AGateway&s=price-asc-...

There's a fair amount of PD and EC Tubb.

>217 Maddz: The series is highly rated by other LibraryThings users. Not sure what you saw that turned you off, but I won't say no to free books with 4 - 4.5 stars. If it turns out I don't enjoy them they will be easy enough to delete later.

>218 clamairy: It was just the general style rather than anything specific. I dare say they're good, I just don't think they're for me. Besides, I have more than enough to read, so another 8 books or so will be something of an imposition. At the moment I've opened (but not got around to finishing):

A Very Queer Family Indeed
The Alexandria Quartet
Road Seven (I need to finish this but I'm finding it hard going)
Magician (I doubt I'll finish it - I think it's pretty dire
Peregrine: Primus

Oh, the book about the Bensons looks good! But I can't say The Alexandria Quartet was anything but a slog. I'll take Gerald Durrell over Larry any day.

>220 Marissa_Doyle: I'm finding the Benson book a bit of a slog actually. I read a chapter every now and then, but it's a bit repetitive. In all honesty, today's headline about the CofE comes as no surprise when you read about the Benson family history. It was a University of Chicago freebie a while back and I thought it looked interesting.

I preferred Larry's shorter fiction - Antrobus Complete is a favourite. I really ought to finish The Alexandria Quartet because there is a family connection: my great-aunt was the poetess Céline Axelos, who resided in Alexandria, and I believe she knew Durrell when he was in Egypt. Sadly, my French is too poor to actually read her poetry, although I have the books.

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente was on Kobo and Amazon (Canada) for $1.99 this evening. I've heard good things about this, and it was a 2019 Hugo nominee, so I grabbed it.

Bundle of Holding have a Night Shade Weird Bundle: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/NightShadeWeird?utm_source=sendy&utm_me...

This covers the Clark Ashton Smith and William Hope Hodgson collections plus the Forgotten Futures game, The Carnacki Cylinders.

Brian McClellan is offering discounts on many of his ebooks books and has Uncanny Collateral for free through his website. https://www.brianmcclellan.com/blog/holiday-sale-2020

The Lord of the Rings and The Priory of the Orange Tree are $1.99 for Kindle and Nook, etc today.

>225 clamairy: I came here to mention Priory of the Orange Tree. It might be my favorite read of 2020.

>226 saltmanz: I bought it a while back when it was on sale, (for $2.99 I think) but I have not read it yet. My daughter loved it.

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin is now 1,99 here. The e-mail said "limited time only" so no idea how long it will last.

Other deals in the Orbit mail were:
The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner 99p
The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French 99p
Soulkeeper by David Dalglish 99p
The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks 99p

>228 divinenanny: Thanks for mentioning The city we became! I've been hoping for this to be included in a UK deal.

Harrow the Ninth and The Glass Hotel are on sale for $2.99 from Amazon today. The first is Sci Fi, but I don't believe the second is. However it was written by the woman who wrote the amazing Station Eleven.

Tor.com is giving away all the Wayward Children series novella's this week, one a day (today is Every Heart's a Doorway). Check it out here: https://www.tor.com/2020/11/30/download-all-5-wayward-children-books-for-free-be...

>231 divinenanny: That's good to know! I must have read the email too quickly because I thought it was just the first one, which I already have. Great news!

>232 Sakerfalcon: I did the exact same thing, but saw the post in my RSS feed :D

>232 Sakerfalcon: Lol, same; I just saw the email subject line "Download a Free Ebook of EVERY HEART A DOORWAY by Seanan McGuire―November 30th Only!" and deleted the email, since I already own that one. I don't have the 5th, though, so thanks, >231 divinenanny:

I'm missing #4 & #5 so I shall be looking out Thursday & Friday.

>230 clamairy: I read The Glass Hotel last month. Definitely not science-fiction. It's not as good as Station Eleven, which I loved, but I still enjoyed reading it. There is something about Mandel's writing style that works for me. The only title of hers that I didn't care for was The Singer's Gun.

>233 divinenanny:, >234 saltmanz: Glad it wasn't just me!

I don't want to jinx myself, but for the first time in two years Tor recognizes that I'm already signed up for their newsletter and is giving me the book files without making me re-register! w00t!

>238 clamairy: Hey, Congrats on recognition! Even if it took a while to get it:)

>239 chalton: Thank you! The problem started when I moved and switched to a new email address. Tor recognized it once, and then never again after that. I even emailed them to ask if there was something else I could do. They acknowledged there were issues with the system and that was the end of it.

>240 clamairy: I think I am "signed up" with three different e-mail addresses, and still I have a 50/50 chance of it recognising me. Always an extra hurdle, making me wonder if this is the day they finally check IP's (I might not actually live in Tor's required country. Or I might. I could. I did once :))

Tor is having a $2.99 ebook sale. I'm sort of semi vaguely interested in the Frank Herbert biography, but his son wrote it so I'm not sure how honest it will be.

https://www.torforgeblog.com/2020/12/01/2-99-ebook-sale-december-2020/

Mmm, nice. Grabbed Remembrance and Interlibrary Loan.

>242 clamairy: >243 Marissa_Doyle: Nice, I picked up the Wolfe as well, thanks!

Claire North's The Gameshouse is $1.99 at Amazon US or $2.99 at Amazon.ca.

The Silmarillion is $2.99 today for Kindle US.

The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin is on sale for $2.99 today. Glad I passed a few days ago when the first one was on sale by itself for $1.99!

The Empire of Gold (Book 3 of The Daevabad Trilogy) by S. A. Chakraborty is on sale for $2.99 today.

I have been waiting for this one to go on sale so I can have the complete set, even though I borrowed it from OverDrive several months ago.

Book View Cafe is having its annual Year End Half Price sale: www.bookviewcafe.com

(full disclosure: I'm a member of BVC. But there are a lot of good books to be had in the sale that I thought would appeal to Dragoneers.)

Network Effect Murderbot #5 is on sale for Kindle US $2.99 today

>249 Narilka: Thanks for this one! I had managed to snag the first four novellas during a TOR giveaway and just happened to have a few shipping credits sitting around. This was a perfect use for those credits.

>250 ScoLgo: Enjoy! I loved this one. (Well, I loved them all...)

The Priory of the Orange Tree is on sale for $1.99 today.

Hard Time by Jodi Taylor (#2 in Time Police) on sale on kobo, and I think kindle, for 0.99, and Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews (#6 in Kate Daniels) for 1.99.

A Gentleman in Moscow is $1.99 for every device today. I bought it even though I had already read it. This one will be a comfort reread at some point for sure.

I haven't had a chance to look at these carefully yet, but Tor is having a $2.99 sale:
https://www.torforgeblog.com/2021/02/01/2-99-ebook-sale-february-2021/

>255 clamairy: Thanks for the link. I must own about 80% of the Gene Wolfe short stories in other collections but it was worth $2.99 in shipping credits to snag that one for the stories I don't already have. A convenient electronic copy of the stories I own in print is not exactly a bad thing either.

The Vance and Liu titles are also tempting but I don't have enough credits... Guess I'll have to wait for that $5.00 Amazon Reader prize to come through next week.

>256 ScoLgo: I'm glad you found something you wanted. I'm waiting for that $5 prize, too! Plus I got a generous Visa gift card as a present, but for some reason it won't let me apply it to digital purchases. (Probably because I have that one tap thing enabled.) I'm sure there's an easy setting to change, but I haven't gone looking yet.

As I mentioned in my own thread, I found a new source of cheap ebooks - Early Bird Books. They are sending me a daily email of specials, most of which I'm not interested in, but there have been a few gems. So far I've picked up two mysteries by Catherine Aird and one by Ngaio Marsh. Their link allows you to purchase the books through Amazon, Kobo, or other sources.

>254 clamairy: - thanks

>258 NorthernStar: Unfortunately, their deals are US only. I subscribe, but only rarely is any deal available in the UK as well. I find ereaderIQ a better way to track specific titles (there's an author track as well, but I find that less useful).

>259 Maddz: Just have to point out that NorthernStar is not in the US.

>258 NorthernStar: Yeah, I have been plugging them in here for a couple of years, I think. Also Book Bub, and Book Riot. All free, and if you don't like anything in the email you just delete it. ScoLgo recently pointed me in the direction of Book Gorilla. Same thing. (There is a lot of overlap between the four.)

amazon.co.uk has A deadly education by Naomi Novik on kindle for 99p today. I've snapped it up.

Early bird books had some great bundles today. I picked up Andre Norton's High Hallack Cycle for 2.99. Also saw some sets by Nancy Springer, Aaron Elkins, Patricia Wrede, and a few other mystery and fantasy authors.

>262 NorthernStar: I was eyeing those!

The Ladies of Grace Adieu is on sale for $1.99 today.

The Alexandria Quartet is $3.99.

I already snagged the first and I am seriously thinking of grabbing the second.

Fire and Blood by George R R Martin is on sale for $2.99. I couldn't resist.

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson is on sale for $3.99.

Three Cthulhu Casebook novels by James Lovegrove--Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities, Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils, and Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows are all $2.99 each at Barnes and Noble, as is The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison.

The Unspoken Name by AK Larkwood

Free download at Tor.com before March 5th:

https://ebookclub.tor.com/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=eblast&utm_...

It's a bit late for this but Early Bird books is having a big sale here:

https://earlybirdbooks.com/1000-ebook-sale

I'm afraid it ends at midnight tonight, so...

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow is $3.99 today. It's been recommended by a bunch of folks in here so I am taking the plunge.

>270 clamairy: I look forward to your views. I have it in hardback but have not gotten to it yet. I was hmmming and haaaing about getting it until Haydninvienna (I think it was Richard) said some complementary things about it and I made the plunge. He can claim another BB hit for that.

Frankenstein in Baghdad is on sale, at least on Kobo and Google Play.

The Queen's Gambit is on sale for $1.99 today. I had credits so I snapped it up. If you have Netflix and you haven't watched this series yet you really need to.

>273 clamairy: I bought the paperback after watching the Netflix series and loved both formats of the story. Have you read his novel Mockingbird? I really liked that one when I read it and have seen it come up as a 'Red Hot Bargain' a few times on BookGorilla.

>274 ScoLgo: Ooooh, I had never heard of it. Will add it to my wishlist on Amazon.

>275 clamairy: I found it to be a pretty great post-apocalypse/dying earth tale. But that's more the setting as opposed to what the novel is really about. I hope you like it.

Tevis had other novels adapted to film; The Hustler, The Color of Money, and The Man Who Fell to Earth. I would love to see an adaptation of Mockingbird someday. Who knows, it might even have a chance of happening after the success of The Queen's Gambit?

>276 ScoLgo: Lets hope so! I would hate for anyone to try to remake the wonderful films that were already adapted.

In the unlikely event that anyone here hasn't read it yet, The Rook is $2.99 at Barnes and Noble (and likely elsewhere.)

Audible is having a sale through April 1 with quite a lot of audiobooks on sale for $5, including a lot of SF&F. It's for members only. I don’t know how their sales work for other countries, but I’m in the U.S., so it might not be available elsewhere.

For a minute I thought they’d put my entire wish list on sale. As it was, there were 8 audiobooks from my list in the sale. I had to stop looking at the other titles in the sale because I started getting tempted by other things that weren’t already on my list and 8 was bad enough. :)

One of the ones I grabbed for $5 was Theft of Swords, which I’d planned to use my next credit for and had intended to listen to pretty soon. I also got Storm Front which I’ve wanted to try for a long time, and which I'm even more curious about now that I’m enjoying his Codex Alera series so much. I probably won’t listen to that one until next year, though.

I've been looking at that sale on my phone. I need to sit at my desk and go through it more thoroughly.

>280 clamairy: I'd heard about these sales before, but this was the first time they've had once since I became a member. They're a little dangerous!

>281 YouKneeK: Yes, I have a backlog of audio books because of these sales and the 'two for one credit' sales! At some point I will cancel my membership for a year and try to catch up.

Edited to add: I snagged The Calculating Stars and The Crystal Cave.

>282 clamairy: That sounds like a good plan; I could see myself ending up in the same boat with too many sales.

The Calculating Stars was one of the ones I purchased also.

Does anyone else have a problem with Amazon charging $12 for the new Murderbot novela? It's only 176 pages. Is it just me? I'm going to borrow the eBook from OverDrive and wait for it to go on sale to purchase.

>284 clamairy: I'm going to wait, I still have Network Effect unread.

>248 Marissa_Doyle: not just Amazon, Tor set all but the first one so expensive. They have done this with a few other novella's (or maybe barely novels). That is just too much for me. Luckily Tor does give them away for free every now and then.

>286 divinenanny: I think you meant to reply to me and transposed your digits! Yeah, I assumed the price was for all platforms, but I was too tired to look. I love Martha Wells and wants her to be paid well, but this seems excessive.

>284 clamairy: On the other hand, I recently finished a book published in the 1940s. It is a hardback, 188 pages long, and regarded as normal novel.

A lot of the novels that I bought in the eighties are similar length. The idea ofexpecting over 300 pages is relatively new.

But then again, number of words per page also needs to be taken into account...

>284 clamairy: All the Murderbot novellas are expensive IMO. I waited for them to go on sale before buying, which doesn't happen often.

>282 clamairy: >283 YouKneeK: I hope you both get along better with The Calculating Stars than I did. I'm still puzzled how it ended up winning all those awards.

>284 clamairy: In fairness, that $11.99 is for a kindle pre-order. In my experience, Amazon usually drops their pre-order pricing shortly after actual release so, might be worth waiting a little while...?

>289 Narilka: Agreed. I got lucky and have paid a total of $0.00 for the five murderbot e-books currently available, (combination of TOR giveaways, Prime shipping credits, and lots & lots of patience ;).

>290 ScoLgo: Maybe it will be palatable as an audiobook. It's got a 4 star rating here on LT, so you seem to be in the minority.

I think I paid for one of them when my daughter was bugging me for it. The rest were giveaways or bought with shipping credits.

Speaking of which I used the last of my credit up on Plagues and Peoples yesterday, which was on sale for $1.99. (I actually have 2 cents left!)

>291 clamairy: Do not spend it all in the one shop.

>291 clamairy: "...so you seem to be in the minority."

Not surprising. I spend a fair amount of time there. ;) While I had my issues with the book, I did not hate it. I just don't think it was of Hugo, Nebula, and Locus winning caliber. At any rate, I hope you like it.

>284 clamairy: the Murderbot novellas always seemed high priced to me, I generally wait for sales or giveaways on them. That said, the newest Patricia Briggs is priced at $16.99 CAD as an ebook. Since the paperback won't be out for a year, I thought I might get the ebook in the meantime - but I'm way too cheap to spend that much on it. If it were under $10 I'd buy the ebook and then the paperback when it comes out.

>287 clamairy:, yeah, sorry. You know, numbers hard :D

I think I am just spoiled, between Tor giveaways, Humble Bundle and buying my physical books either at charity shops or with gift cards, I almost never spend more than 5 euros on a book, and that's kinda my max now.

Bookbub has Riviera Gold by Laurie R King for $2.99 today. This is the latest in the Russell/Holmes series:
https://www.bookbub.com/

WOW! New book by Martha Wells in the Murderbot universe: "Home" (no Touchstone) is only 99 cents for pre-order at Amazon today!

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/w/martha-wells/home.htm?utm_source=ff&utm_m...

>297 fuzzi: It's 19 pages! Not a new book or even a novella. Though I am tempted.

>297 fuzzi: Hmmm... That Fantastic Fiction link says, "A novella by Martha Wells", but on Amazon.com the length is listed at 19 pages. I'd call that a short story, at most.

EtA: Cross-post! Sorry, clam!

>298 clamairy: I saw it was short, but...what's a dollar? 😁

Sorry I'm so late to post this, but The Bear and the Nightingale is on sale right now.
(For anyone who wanted to dip in a toe but hadn't found it on sale yet.)

>301 clamairy: where is it on sale?

Amazon - $2.99 for Kindle

>302 fuzzi: It's also on sale at Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and Google.

>304 amanda4242: Thank you! I wondered about that. I got the offer through an Book Riot email, and the link led to Amazon, but I wonder if that is because of something I selected when I first signed up for those emails.

It looks like Audible is now having one of those 2 for 1 credit sales that >282 clamairy: warned me about! Looks like the sale lasts for a little under 6 days from now.

One of the offered books (Soulless) was on my wish list, and there's one other book (Elantris) that I had on my general list but not my audiobook list. It's a decent candidate for the audiobook list since it has sequels planned that aren't likely to be out for a few years, and probably would have ended up on my audiobook list eventually, so I may pick up both of those. I have to wait a couple days before I actually have a credit to use first, though. :)

>306 YouKneeK: I just saw that email and whispered "uhoh."

Adrian Tchaikovsky's The doors of Eden is 99p for kindle today on amazon uk.

>308 Sakerfalcon: aw shucks, not on sale in the USA...oh well.

>308 Sakerfalcon: Thanks, Claire. Duly snagged.

Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (Culture of the Land) by Matthew Dickerson is on sale for $2.99 today from Amazon, Kobo, B&N and Apple. I don't remember hearing about this one before but it's pretty highly rated here on LT.

Kindle editions of 5 of Neil Gaiman's most popular titles are 99p each today (and only today) in the UK (and only in the UK, sorry!)

Amazon link

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams with illustrations by William Nicholson is free across all platforms today. One of my favorites children's books ever!

Number9Dream by David Mitchell is $1.99 today in the US. (Kindle, Nook, Google, etc.)

Amazon has a big Earth Day related sale going on.

https://smile.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=21202900011

>315 clamairy: - I couldn't find a Canadian link to that sale, but I found some of the books listed were on sale, some just on Amazon, some on Kobo too.

>316 NorthernStar: Hang on. I'll repost it without the smile link and see if it works.

https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=21202900011

If that doesn't work you can go here and scroll down a little bit:

https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_1?ie=UTF8&node=11552285011&pf_rd_m...

>317 clamairy: the problem wasn't with your link, but that I wanted the Canadian site, which didn't seem to have the sale. So I looked at your link, and then looked up anything I was interested in on both kobo (because I can load them directly) and amazon.ca. Got two books from kobo, and one from amazon. I'll add them to my library tonight or tomorrow.

Amazon has 10 free kindle books available until April 24 for World Book Day. I got mine on the Canadian site but they should be on the US one as I was redirected from there. Here’s the US link-
https://www.amazon.com/article/read-the-world-2021?tag=cnet-buy-button-20&as...

>319 raidergirl3: Oh, thank you! I usually snag all of them.

>319 raidergirl3: Thanks for providing that link! I would never have found them on the amazon UK site without it - they keep these deals very well hidden!

>320 clamairy:, >321 Sakerfalcon: I even knew to be looking for the offer in April and I had a hard time finding them! Glad you were able to get them. It's such a great offer, and even if only 1 or 2 are great reads, it is worthwhile.

>1 clamairy: Does anyone have any deals for nicely made bookmarks here?? All I can find are paper ones and I would really like a fabric one like these because I rip the paper ones so easily or better yet cut myself: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/845435370/bookmarks-beaded-crochet-tatted-elegan...

But I'm not really sure what kind of fabric I should be looking for to make sure I'm not damaging my books, etc.

>323 bookloverscoop: I've bought cloth ones as gifts at Barnes & Noble that look like little carpets.
Similar to these:

https://www.amazon.com/Set-Rug-Bookmarks-Colorful-Reading/dp/B08GY7VBML

https://www.amazon.com/Set-Rug-Bookmarks-Colorful-Reading/dp/B08XYFTKYZ

Hopefully someone will have a better suggestion. Pretty sure thinner is better for not damaging books.

Another big sale. I'm thinking about that Gilgamesh retelling. Here's the link to the sci-fi and fantasy selection.

https://theportalist.com/1000-ebook-sale

>325 clamairy: I quite enjoyed Gilgamesh the King, though I was (and remain) not at all familiar with the original epic.

I also read Tanith Lee's Secret Books of Paradys last year and came away impressed, even if the whole collection isn't particularly cohesive. $4 is an absolute steal for that much content. (Ugh, I hate the 2020s connotations of the word content used like that, but I couldn't think of a better word!)

>326 saltmanz: I listed to an audible version of the original epic a year or two ago. Fascinating stuff. I'm not sure the 3.6 star rating here on LT is enough for an enticement for me to purchase the novel, but I might borrow it from OverDrive.

I still have to look at the fiction and non-fiction sale list. It's a bit of an overload to do it all at once.