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What are you currently reading?

wyndslash said:
Google play books are a bit expensive though. Amazon is still cheaper
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Google Books also imposes severe geographic restrictions on what countries you can read them in. So if you're looking for something to read on that foreign holiday, you could be disappointed. Amazon is ok with this.
 
wyndslash said:
I think Amazon is more lenient with certain things as long as you buy from them;)
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Yeh Amazon are much more lenient. I can buy ebooks from Amazon UK even though I'm in China, as I have a credit card and billing address for the UK. The Apple iTunes book store is the same as well. Not so with Google Books, I could have "bought"(leased) some ebooks from when I was in the UK, but now in China I'd lose them, and would only get them back upon returning to the UK. It's same with any other paid content from Google, like music, movies, TV shows and magazines, that has digital restrictions management(DRM).
 
wyndslash said:
I don't think google has that much clout yet with the companies in the book and music industries.
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Wynd, it might be a lack of clout with rights holders. But on the other hand I think it's how they've implemented it. It's same for paid apps as well, I could buy an app in the UK, but will lose access to it here, free apps only. Just get a message saying "This app is not available in your country." This is even with a VPN as well.

Presumably Google do have the same distribution rights with the publishers as Apple or Amazon. Because with them you only have to have a credit card and billing address for the appropriate country you want to buy an ebook from. Can't even obtain free public domain, out of copyright ebooks from Google Books, things like Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, etc. should be no distribution rights issues with those.

This is what brought the issue to my attention in the first place...
http://theunhivedmind.com/wordpress3/2013/08/19/google-play-delete-your-ebooks-if-you-travel/

"Travellers Beware: Google Play Might Delete All Your Books
Eric Limer – It’s easy to forget that owning something digitally is way different from owning it for real. And if you do forget, it can bite you in the ass. That’s what happened to Jim O’Donnell when he traveled into Singapore and found that Google Play Books app on his iPad had up and deleted all his ebooks.
You see, the Google Play Store doesn’t operate in Singapore, so obviously it’s not going to sell to people who are there. But apparently the DRM goes a step further, and can/will actually delete your stuff if it catches you visiting the wrong part of town the world."


I'm often an international traveller myself. A good read is just the thing you might need while on holiday, and Google won't let you do it apparently. :rolleyes:
 
Distribution rights problems can be very real.

There's no way to legally obtain the ecopy of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End in the USA, for example.

On topic, I'm reading Invaders From The Infinite.
 
Yeh back on topic, student gave me a copy of this a few months ago...
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Not got around to reading it yet...LOL.
 
Just restarted the Wheel of Time series. Had to read Brandon Sanderson's Mist Born to get a feel for him as he's finished the epic by Robert Jordan. So we'll see...
 
Bout to start book 3 of The Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch. I've been waiting for The Republic of Thieves for EVER it seems!
 
Finally reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I was aware of it, but somehow never got around to reading it. When the movie came out, of course they had the book everywhere. I picked it up while I was grocery shopping lol. About halfway through, I really like it so far.
 
blkbeltkid17 said:
Some one give me a unknown horror writer and a good story by said person PLEASE (^o^)
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Scariest book I ever read was Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist. He is a fantasy author, but that one standalone book really put the fear into me when I first read it.

Currently reading The Last Dark by Stephen R. Donaldson, the last book of the Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

As for O. S. Card, all I can say is that he is a pretty decent writer; Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are the best two books out of that series.

If I refused to read because of an author's personal biases and public pronouncements, then I'd be an unlettered fool. I don't care whether or not you have an invisible friend in the sky, or in the ground or in your head; I care not if you have internal or external plumbing nor whose pipes you prefer to plumb.

I am only interested in your insight into the human condition, the art with which you express yourself, and the truths of our shared realities.
 
Dngrsone said:
Scariest book I ever read was Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist. He is a fantasy author, but that one standalone book really put the fear into me when I first read it.

Currently reading The Last Dark by Stephen R. Donaldson, the last book of the Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

As for O. S. Card, all I can say is that he is a pretty decent writer; Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are the best two books out of that series.

If I refused to read because of an author's personal biases and public pronouncements, then I'd be an unlettered fool. I don't care whether or not you have an invisible friend in the sky, or in the ground or in your head; I care not if you have internal or external plumbing nor whose pipes you prefer to plumb.

I am only interested in your insight into the human condition, the art with which you express yourself, and the truths of our shared realities.
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Thanks for the info I looked up the ender games series so I'll have something to read
 
Gmash said:
Finally reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I was aware of it, but somehow never got around to reading it. When the movie came out, of course they had the book everywhere. I picked it up while I was grocery shopping lol. About halfway through, I really like it so far.
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Read that over 10 years ago (i think it wasd that long ago). Really enjoyed it. Never got around to reading anything else from the series though.

Not sure how much I will like the movie, didn't make it to theater to see it
Dngrsone said:
If I refused to read because of an author's personal biases and public pronouncements, then I'd be an unlettered fool. I don't care whether or not you have an invisible friend in the sky, or in the ground or in your head; I care not if you have internal or external plumbing nor whose pipes you prefer to plumb.

I am only interested in your insight into the human condition, the art with which you express yourself, and the truths of our shared realities.
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Well said!
 
I just finished Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Very addicting book, maybe not the most well written, technically, but hard to put down. It's about a woman who disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, and all the clues point toward the husband. Of course it's not that simple lol. It alternates each chapter between the husband's perspective and the wife's diary entries, which keeps things moving and makes you want to read "just one more chapter".

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/books/gone-girl-by-gillian-flynn.html
 
Reading The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia.

Halfway through; wondering if I should read some Sci-Fi before tackling Game of Thrones again.

When is the next book due out?
 
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