The Cemetery Dance Exclusive Collectors Set (including the round robin novella The Crane House) will be yanked off the website later today, so if you want to reserve your copies of these three incredible signed Limited Editions (instead of battling it out on the second-hand market for used copies later on), this your LAST CHANCE!
My birthday gift this year was a Kindle 2, Amazon’s wireless-enabled book reading device. What a nifty, cool gadget it is. It uses 3G technology (the Sprint network) to communicate with the mother ship, which means that you can browse the store on the gadget, see something you like and buy it and have it show up a minute later. Or you can order via the Amazon page and it will be transmitted to your Kindle. It also has a USB connection (which is cleverly disguised as the power cord) so you can transfer documents, MP3s and audio books that way, too. You can listen to music in the background while you read, if you so choose. You can also subscribe to newspapers, magazines and blogs (for a fee) and access Google and Wikipedia (free).
I wasn’t sure what to buy first, but settled on Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The New No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Novel. My wife and I have been enjoying the TV series, and I liked the previous novel. I read the first chapter out loud, and within a page or so it was just like reading from paper. I’m still learning all the ropes of the gadget, what certain buttons do, how to get to the various menus, but I’m liking this gizmo a lot. If I could convince publishers to send ARCs in a format for this device, I’d be a happy camper
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