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Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:02 am
by Isgrimnur
Perfect for that person in your life that’s a fan of WWII encryption and undersea communication cables.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:26 am
by Moliere
Isgrimnur wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2017 11:18 am Cryptonomicon is the best book I've ever read about undersea data cables.
I liked it because I enjoy historical fiction and the history of encryption.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:28 am
by Isgrimnur
I enjoyed it as well. I just don't assume that my interests, especially those, are going to match up with many other people.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:18 pm
by Smoove_B
Apologies in advance - there's close to 300 Marvel titles for sale via Amazon digital; all are under $1.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:34 am
by YellowKing
Dammit, Smoove. :grund: :grund: :grund:

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:03 pm
by Smoove_B
Sale apparently ended last night, sorry. It'll be back..

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:35 pm
by YellowKing
It was actually still up earlier today when I clicked on your link. I was at work though, so I didn't have time to grab anything.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:30 pm
by Smoove_B
I'm confident it'll be back. I'll send you a PM when I see it. :wink:

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 3:35 pm
by Smoove_B
I'm not familiar with this series, but John Scalzi's Lock In (part 1 of 2) is on sale today for $2.99:
A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.

Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.

A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as "Haden's syndrome," rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an "integrator" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.

But "complicated" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:05 am
by Moliere
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Tor.com’s eBook of the Month Club
For his crimes, Mycroft Canner is required to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets.

Carlyle Foster is a sensayer—a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

The 25th century world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labelling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations.

To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:34 am
by Moliere
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
$1.99

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:40 am
by Moliere

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 1:44 pm
by Smoove_B
YellowKing wrote: Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:35 pm It was actually still up earlier today when I clicked on your link. I was at work though, so I didn't have time to grab anything.
As promised, it's back again. :D

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 6:16 pm
by Moliere
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
$1.99

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
$2.99

Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg
$1.99
I recently saw the movie adaptation "Jungle" on Amazon Prime staring Harry Potter. It was pretty good. Now I want to read the book.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 3:09 pm
by Moliere
Tor.com’s eBook of the Month Club

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Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 11:07 am
by Jag
I love the new animated book covers for e-books. I'm surprised more people aren't using it.
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Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:10 am
by Moliere
These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
$1.99

I really enjoyed this story about early frontier living in AZ.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:39 pm
by Smoove_B
The Terror by Dan Simmons is $2.99 today.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue May 01, 2018 3:56 pm
by Moliere
Amazon First Reads for May are posted.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 8:50 am
by Smoove_B
Wild Cards written (in part) and edited by up and coming author George RR Martin is a daily deal @ 2.99 today.

Not sure how long these will last, but Sweet Silver Blues (Garrett, P.I.) by Glen Cook (yes that Glen Cook) is also $2.99 (at least as of this post).

Prince of Thorns is another at $2.99 (at least as of this post).

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 5:43 pm
by Ænima
Prince of Thorns is amazing. Instant buy if you like grimdark.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 5:54 pm
by Pyperkub
Courtesy of qt3, a ton of ebooks on sale (note, it's multiple pages, and while the link is to sff, there are other genres also on sale)

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 9:18 pm
by Smoove_B
Ænima wrote: Tue May 08, 2018 5:43 pm Prince of Thorns is amazing. Instant buy if you like grimdark.
Someone must have mentioned it somewhere in another thread because it's been sitting in my wishlist for a few years. I was surprised that out of nowhere it was on sale, so I shared. Not sure who made the original recommendation, but you're the real MVP.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 1:02 am
by Moat_Man
A big :handgestures-thumbup: for David Feintuch's Seafort Saga books. I remember reading them when they first came out and really enjoyed them, so much so that I read them twice.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 10:43 am
by Isgrimnur

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 10:29 am
by Jag
Smoove_B wrote: Tue May 08, 2018 9:18 pm
Ænima wrote: Tue May 08, 2018 5:43 pm Prince of Thorns is amazing. Instant buy if you like grimdark.
Someone must have mentioned it somewhere in another thread because it's been sitting in my wishlist for a few years. I was surprised that out of nowhere it was on sale, so I shared. Not sure who made the original recommendation, but you're the real MVP.
It's really grimdark though. Gratuitously violent. It wasn't bad, just tough in some parts. I think I like my grim a bit less dark. More Abercrombie and less Goodkind.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 11:06 am
by El Guapo
Jag wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 10:29 am
Smoove_B wrote: Tue May 08, 2018 9:18 pm
Ænima wrote: Tue May 08, 2018 5:43 pm Prince of Thorns is amazing. Instant buy if you like grimdark.
Someone must have mentioned it somewhere in another thread because it's been sitting in my wishlist for a few years. I was surprised that out of nowhere it was on sale, so I shared. Not sure who made the original recommendation, but you're the real MVP.
It's really grimdark though. Gratuitously violent. It wasn't bad, just tough in some parts. I think I like my grim a bit less dark. More Abercrombie and less Goodkind.
You should check out grimdusk, then.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 6:12 pm
by Ænima
Goodkind belongs nowhere near a discussion of good authors. I don’t even know what you’re trying to say there...

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 1:33 pm
by Jag
Ænima wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 6:12 pm Goodkind belongs nowhere near a discussion of good authors. I don’t even know what you’re trying to say there...
It wasn't a compliment about him at all. I was using him as an example at the extreme range of gratuitous violence.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 9:14 am
by Moliere

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 10:09 am
by MonkeyFinger
The Quantum Thief was quite the odd read... still debating if I'll get the rest of the series. :think:

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 9:43 am
by Moliere
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$2.99
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash between town and gown, between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of "townies" and the ambitions of students debating books and ideas, couldn’t have been more stark. In this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Dubus shows us how he escaped the cycle of violence and found empathy in channeling the stories of others—bridging, in the process, the rift between his father and himself.
Recommended if you like memoirs.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 9:49 am
by Isgrimnur

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 8:28 am
by Smoove_B
Swan Song Robert McCammon is $1.99 today. I actually just re-read this about a year ago (after not having read it since the late 1980s) and it held up.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 2:11 pm
by Z-Corn
I've liked all of Robert McCammon's books that I have read. I was going to buy this but was informed that I bought it in 2015.

It's as bad as Steam I tell you!


A couple of his other books are on sale for $2.99 also.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 2:13 pm
by Kasey Chang
FWIW, if you have a Samsung phone, download their customized version of "Kindle app for Samsung" and you get a free eBook every month (selection is a bit sparse) and this is in addition to any OTHER offers you may already have (Prime Reading, Lending Lib, Kindle Unlimited, etc. )

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 11:37 am
by Moliere
Amazon June First Reads are posted.

This is the only one that looks promising.

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Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:17 pm
by Archinerd
That's the one I picked too.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 7:04 pm
by ColdSteel
Will Wight's Traveler's Gate trilogy is free today on Kindle. He's a fantastic author and this is a steal. Great series. Get it here!

You can also get the first 3 books of his Cradle series free today here.

Re: [Kindle] Daily e-book deals of note

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 12:23 am
by Moat_Man
ColdSteel wrote: Fri Jun 01, 2018 7:04 pm Will Wight's Traveler's Gate trilogy is free today on Kindle. He's a fantastic author and this is a steal. Great series. Get it here!

You can also get the first 3 books of his Cradle series free today here.
Thanks for the tip!