Thu February 02 2017
fantasyfan Vote • February 2017 |
07:31 AM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in February 2017! The options this month are courtesy of our rotating nominator, fantasyfan.
Votes will be made by post. Each person has NINE votes to use. You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one post or vote in separate posts at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast. The rotating nominator may not vote. Once voting is complete, the count will be tallied and a winner declared. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then the tie will be resolved by the nominator. We hope that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion.
* From fantasyfan: I have had an itch to suggest a list of famous works of literary criticism. I think that as we are a literary club that would be a reasonable approach. The choices wouldn't necessarily be long; sometimes an essay has had a very significant impact. They could range from books examining philosophical approaches to literature, genre areas, and even specific authors or works. One would have to think about factors such as availability and price as works of literary criticism are not always best sellers nor inexpensive. ... Here's my list in chronological order, generally with the descriptions from Goodreads:
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Tue January 31 2017
Shelfie is shutting down tomorrow, Jan 31 2017 |
07:45 AM by birdbrainbb in E-Book General | News Just a head's up that Shelfie is shutting down tomorrow on the 31st. If you have any ebooks from them, now's the time to back them up. From their website:
Shelfie was an app where you took pictures of your deadtree book collection and could purchase free or discounted ebook versions. I think there was some social aspect, as well, but I didn't use it very much so I'm not entirely sure! |
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Sat January 21 2017
MobileRead Week in Review: 01/14 - 01/21 |
07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Another week, another steady stream of e-book goodness here on MobileRead. Our authentic roundup of what's been going on: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations Miscellaneous - Announcements |
Fri January 20 2017
February 2017 Book Club Nominations |
01:02 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for February, 2017. The nominations will run through midnight EST January 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. The book selection category for February is: Mystery. In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? How Does a Book Get Selected? How Many Nominations Can I Make? How Do I Nominate a Book? How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? When is the Poll? The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.
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(2) Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh Spoiler:
(3) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Spoiler:
(4) Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr Spoiler:
(5) The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins Spoiler:
(6) Holmes On the Range by Steve Hockensmith Spoiler:
(7) The Rook (The Checquy Files #1) by Daniel O'Malley Spoiler:
(8) The Dry by Jane Harper Spoiler:
(9) The Harper's Quine by Pat McIntosh Spoiler:
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Thu January 19 2017
Literary Book Club |
09:18 AM by Bookpossum in Miscellaneous | Announcements Did you know that MobileRead has a Literary Book Club? We are a small but active Club, now some five and a half years old, but because of the way life keeps on interfering with reading time, our numbers have been reducing in recent months. We would very much like to see some new members join us, and of course would be delighted to see former members who are able to join in our activities again. You can find us under Reading Recommendations/Book Clubs. For January 2017 we are reading "Nora Webster" by Colm Tóibín. Do please feel free to join in the discussion. |
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Wed January 18 2017
[Leak/Rumour] Windows Store to sell ebooks (again)? |
09:27 AM by tomsem in E-Book General | News Speculation is that the addition of ePub support to Edge browser (still only in preview build I think?) has paved the way for this. http://www.pcworld.com/article/31585...le-ebooks.html http://www.techradar.com/news/window...-leak-suggests Wonder if Edge offers (or will offer) offline mode for this content (as Kindle Cloud Reader does). I am not willing to install preview build of Windows 10 to find out, however. I just removed preview build from my Windows 10 Phone as half the apps I wanted to use stopped working... |
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Sat January 07 2017
MobileRead Week in Review: 12/31 - 01/07 |
07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Gosh we've talked a lot this week. Here's your weekly round up of MobileRead's events. E-Book General - News |
Thu January 05 2017
NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) and Kindle for PC 1.19 |
02:56 PM by jhowell in E-Book General | News NV Access has announced availability of new enhanced accessibility software for PCs, NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) that works in conjunction with Kindle for PC version 1.19. You can read the details and find a link to download this new software on this page. Warning: The new Kindle for PC version will download books in KFX format to enable "enhanced typesetting" as needed for the accessibility software. This is incompatible with existing DRM removal tools.
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