Showing posts with label Electronic Reader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electronic Reader. Show all posts

Sunday, March 2, 2014

In My Mailbox {10}

This is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren.  Its a great way to show what you won/bought/borrowed each week {or so}.  I might write one each week, but most likely every couple/few weeks... you'll just have to come and check it out!

This post isn't for the week... This is basically the books I've purchased or my hubs has bought for me since Christmas, so it's going to looks like a LOT, but this is basically 3 months worth of books {some are pre-Christmas purchases as well}. And almost all are books I have not read yet, so my TBR pile is pretty much gigantic now!  I need to get reading like crazy...

John Green boxed set, featuring Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars.  I read TFiOS a while ago {well, listened to the audiobook courtesy of my local library}, and I just loved the tragic beauty of the story of Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters.  My husband go me the boxed set of John Green works for part of my Valentine's Day gift!

Marie Lu's Legend Trilogy.  I've heard great things about this set, and it was an Amazon Lightening Deal a few months ago, so I picked it up.  I will probably do the "read when I can, listen when I can" with this set, like I've done a few of the books I've read since Little D was born {thank you, KCLS, for having so many audiobooks available so quickly!}.


A huge Half Price Books haul, along with two from Amazon!

Daughter of Smoke & Bone and Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor.  Again, I've heard great things and they were less than $5/each!  Plus, I love the UK DoBaS cover that Half Price Books had!

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen.  Because everyone in the book blogger world seems to be in love with her, and it was only $2, so why not?

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs.  One of my Amazon purchases, I used some of my Christmas cash to order this one.  I really want to find out what happens next to the Peculiar Children.

Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi.  My other Amazon purchase.  If you've read the series, you know why I needed to get this one.  If you haven't read the series, them you need to go pick up Shatter Me.

Withering Tights by Louise Rennison.  I saw this at the library a long time ago, and have had in on my TBR list for just as long.  When I came across it at Half Price Books for only $2, I knew I should pick it up!

Ruby Red, Sapphire Blue and Emerald Green, aka The Precious Stones/Ruby Red Trilogy by Kerstin Gier.  A series about time traveling teenagers?  I'm a total Whovian.  I love time travel!  So, yes, yes, and yes!  It was originally written in German, so only Ruby Red has an English description on Goodreads.

Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate.  I have this whole series, and read most of this a while ago.  I though this should be added to my library {and, hey, on of the only ones on this list that I've actually read!}.

Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs.  This has been on my Goodreads TBR list for a while, and when I saw it in the discount section at Half Price Books, I thought I would just pick it up.  Lord knows I could probably rack up $2 in overdue fines pretty quickly, I might as well just buy the book!

Hereafter by Tara Hudson.  Another that's been on my Goodreads TBR list for a while.  And, again, only $2 at HPB?  Yeah, I'll pick that up!

Shades of Earth by Beth Revis.  I've been wanting to read this since I read Under The Never Sky {I keep seeing them being compared to each other in very good ways}, and, while I don't actually have the first two in the series, how often can you pick up a hardcover for less than $5?


Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.  Have you seen the previews for the movie?  This looks to be outstanding!! {Plus it was a nice Costco find!}

Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale.  Loved Austenland {both the book and the movie... Jennifer Coolidge, you rock!}, and because of how intriguing this book sounds is the whole reason I picked up Austenland in the first place.

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon.  I read/listened to Outlander a few weeks ago.  I put off reading it for SO long {a friend recommended it to me years ago}, but, my word!, its SO good!!  I have the audiobook from said friend and am listening to it and reading it as I can.  Love these books so far!


Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.  I borrowed this from the library a couple years ago, and I LOVE it.  If I ever have a daughter, I hope she loves it as much as I did.

White Hot Kiss by Jennifer L Armentrout.  So far I've loved everything I've read by JLA, and when this went on sale via Amazon for $5.99, I ordered it.  Can't wait to read it!


BabyLit primers!  Costco had all of these, and I just needed to pick them up for my sweet boy {and, again, if I ever have a girl...}.  Pride & Prejudice {a counting primer}, Sense & Sensibility {an opposites primer}, Jane Eyre {a counting primer}, Wuthering Heights {a weather primer}, Romeo & Juliet {a counting primer}, Moby Dick {an ocean primer}, Dracula {a counting primer} and Alice in Wonderland {a colors primer}, all by Jennifer Adams and illustrated by Alison Oliver.  These came as two-piece sets, hence having several counting primers {or maybe that's just my subconcious wanting to give Little D a head start on math, since I'm so bad at it?}.


My last fun mailbox item is actually a Kindle I won from Christy at The Reader Bee as part of her awesome blogoversary giveaways {she had three awesome giveaways that took place over the entire month!  Woot!}.  If you follow my twitter, you know I tend to tweet quite a bit about various giveaways.  I really don't ever tend to win anything, and the fact that I'd entered all three and won this... WOW!


So, yeah!  Loads of books, but this was all over the last few months!  I have a lot of reading to do, so I'll sign off with that!  What did you get this past week/month?

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

In My Mailbox

This is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren.  Its a great way to show what you won/bought/borrowed each week {or so}.  I might write one each week, but most likely every couple/few weeks... you'll just have to come and check it out!

This week I picked up a couple books from the library, and realized I also have several that I got cheap/free for my Kindle {those have actually been the last couple weeks, not just this week... All were free except one! I love free!}.

Borrowed from the library:
The List by Siobhan Vivian
Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Bought for the Kindle:
{Most of these were downloaded from Amazon free, and I picked them because the descriptions sounded interesting.}
Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn - I tried to win this almsot a dozen times on Goodreads, so it was a shock and a thrill to see it for $2.99 on Amazon for my Kindle!
Savage Cinderella by PJ Sharon
Awake: A Fairytale by Jessica Gray
Tangled Tides by Karen Amanda Hooper
Errant (Killer Unicorns) by Diana Peterfreund {yes, the very same who wrote For Darkness Shows the Stars}
Glimpse by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

I would love to see what you got in your mailbox this week!  Please leave a link in your comment so I can find it =)

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sony Reader Update

Okay, so there is a "skip to page xxx" feature. I'm still learning :-). Also, I don't know if I said this before, but if you uplaod PDF files and it doesn't have something in the title section or the author section, it will be blank. Or if someone makes a PDF in their name (Jane Doe), but it's really the work of someone else (John Doe), it will show the former person's name (Jane Doe) as the author. Slightly confusing. I currently have a book on my reader that someone left all fields blank, so it has no title or author.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Sony Reader PRS-505




For an early birthday present, my hubs got me this little gem. I was excited, yet slightly skeptical about this new, electronic reading device (okay, so its not so new, but still...). I've been thinking something like this would be cool ever since I was a kid and packed 3-5 books on our family vacations (taking up a good portion of my backpack "carry on" - we drove, so it was what I was able to keep with me inside the car instead of in the trunk). I've only had it since Wednesday night (got it right after I got off work), but I think that's sufficient time to say I really love this! Yes, I still love the weight of a nice hardcover in my hand and turning the pages... also, being able to just take seconds to flip back to your favorite part 100 previous to the one you are on at the moment (the Reader makes up for this by having "bookmarks"). I have yet to figure out if there is a "go to page #" feature (I don't think there is)... it makes it slow going if someone "starts over" with a book you were currently reading. It does keep a small "history" of what pages you've read on that book, which you could use to go back to that page, though.

I chose this version because I really didn't think I needed all the extras on the newer Sony Reader. *I don't write in the margins of the books I have, why would I do that with an electronic one? I don't need a booklight, especially since most reviews said it was horrible. I don't need extra space for books, when it has an SD card slot. And I could use the $150 saved towards eBooks!* I've been eye-ing this for a while, and since it was on a major sale, Glen got it for me as an early birthday present - isn't he sweet? So far I have a bunch of *free* classics, the draft Stephenie Meyer released of Midnight Sun, and some random *free* books from the Sony/Borders eBook library.

Another interesting fact? I keep going to turn the page, because it really does seem like I'm just reading out of a regular book! The nice part? I can "turn" the "page" with the touch of a button, set it down in a windy room and not worry about losing my place. I can even just shut it off, and when I turn it back on it will be on the exact page that I left off...