Huh - I did not know about the Prime thing. I’ll have to check that out.
Edit: AAAAHHH! It includes graphic novels!
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They have a best sellers list too for free books. Sometimes there’s some good new authors, sometimes there’s some popular author stuff, sometimes it’s just junk.
Also don’t forget most libraries have ebooks! I use that all the time.
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Baen has the Baen Free Library with a fair selection, though there used to be more, I think. They also used to include CD-ROMs with their hardbacks which would have a bunch more ebooks available from many of their authors. The CDs are no longer offered, but could be copied and shared freely, so some kind soul has hosted them all here.
If you have a library card, your library may also have ebooks available. I use Libby (an Android app) to search for books on both my local county library system and the Army MWR system; through the app, I can check them out and then send them to my Kindle to read. I have read more for fun since we deployed a few months ago than I had in the last few years, probably. Partly a function of ease, and partly because I have so very much time here.
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I am just in love with my kindle i wish i had gotten one years ago, my only complaint is the battery seems weak, it goes down about 10% after about an hour of reading.That’s with wifi off and no back lighting.
Sounds like it was well used before you got it. Keep it for a while, watch for sales on the Kindle, and see if you can trade it in when you’ve saved up enough for a new one.
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I actually got a new one. maybe i should contact customer support
I would. The battery should last better than that.
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There are some weird bugs with some of the more recent firmwares. Try turning it into airplane mode.
Mine is generally fine, but sometimes it’ll drain stupidly fast when it’s not in airplane mode.
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It’s been a long day, interpreted that as “turn it into a (paper) airplane…”
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Are the Dune books worth reading? I have read the first one, but never read the rest of the books.
I do put mine in airplane mode if I am not expecting to download or finish anything any time soon and the battery does sometimes last quite a bit longer.
I bought a refurb one with the stupidly large storage but the ads because they didn’t have any without the ads. Turns out you can pay once to turn those off. Worth it to me.
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Opinions vary. I really enjoyed the first three.
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The first one is excellent and a surprisingly short read.
The remaining Frank Herbert books can be a slog in places. There’s neat bits and some interesting ‘message’ stuff, but I feel like it might have done better if an editor had said, “Let’s condense this down by a book or two.” Lots of high-flying ideas, but sometimes a bit too high-flying. It’s literature in the “You have to decide what this means” sense.
The recent stuff (Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson) is a lot more ‘traditional’ in the sense that it’s modern sci-fi/fantasy, it’s in trilogies (mostly) and it’s relatively ‘cliche’ sci-fi adventure with some Dune twists. At least the couple I read.
They’re kind of drawn out, I think. Some early books have ‘twists’ that are so heavily foreshadowed that the title practically gives them away. They really should have been condensed down.
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Finished. Pretty good. Also noticed that he used the descriptor Latinx several times and not in an awkward way - very natural and smoothly. Can’t wait to see other popular authors start using these kinds of descriptors and pronouns.
I’m hearing the ‘latino’ term is actually kind of cringe to people in a lot of more Latin-derived nations: They already had ‘latine’ as a genderless term. albeit unused.
But, hey, it’s English and Americana nd we consider it our right two redefine stuff however we want.
It’s starting to be more used, which doesn’t surprise me. Most of the Latine folks I know don’t like “Latinx”. It’s hard to pronounce, for one.
Also for referring to someone in the third person usually it’s “él” for a male and “ella” for a female. For groups of people it’s “ellos” and “ellas”. I was reading yesterday that “elle” and “elles” are starting to be used as gender neutral terms, especially among non-binary folks. I assume that referring to first person plural (“we did this”) can use “nosotres” instead of “nosotros” or “nosotras” but that wasn’t touched on in the article.
I probably should have said ‘albeit mostly unused’ which is a bit different of course.
I’m cool with being more representative, but it seems like we (as English language speakers, not anyone here personally) may have overreached a bit by making up terms where valid ones already exist.
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I think I’ve heard that term spoken before, but this was the first time I saw any sort of gender neutral descriptor in writing. I bet if he knew there was a more preferred option he’d do it.
And I just noticed fb will let you choose custom pronouns so that’s pretty cool too.
I wish our ticketing system at work had this feature. Judging by names is a guess at best. We get some name change history and one recent ticket I got suggested a possibly transition: I’d prefer to use the pronouns the end user would prefer and had to write emails around the situation.
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Got epub version of A Song of Fire and Ice.
Will start reading tonight. Want to see how it differ from the screen version.