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Why I need infinite money, reason #243
Mar. 13th, 2015 04:37 pmI want to reread Discworld novels, but my bookshelf has NO organization (and is mostly double-stacked so I can't even look through what I have without serious assistance) and anyway physical books are Hard for me to deal with, so I figured, what the hell, I'd get ebook versions. Not everything, just ones focusing on my favourite characters.
Which happen to be Death, Sam Vimes, and Granny Weatherwax.
Or basically, using this chart, three of the four major groupings; and of the remainder, I like the Ancient Civilizations ones and the YA ones, so I have gone from "not everything, just the special ones" to "everything but the Rincewind books and the Industrial Revolution books, the latter mainly because I never got around to reading any".
Now, woe the first, which is mainly me being lazy, is that these do not exist as omnibus groupings (which would be awesome for the ebook versions; just have "The Collected Witches Novels of Discworld" and "The Collected Death Novels of Discworld" and so on, so that the related books just are one huge file. But eh.
Woe the second, which is a huger deal: *this is a fuckton of money*, at least relative to my life.
A lot of them are on sale for $3.99 instead of $9.99 -- not all, and e.g. Small Gods is reduced all the way to 9.09 what a ~bargain~ but for the moment assume for the ease of calculation that they are. Six Witches books plus four YA books plus two AC books plus five Death books plus seven Watch novels? $96. Granted, that's 24 books, so it's not anywhere close to the scale of, say, college textbooks, but it's also a) close to a hundred dollars, and b) not the actual price as not all of them are $4.
And of course the way Kindle books work, you can't shove them all in a single shopping cart to see the cost. It's just one-click. For each one.
Mrgh.
Which happen to be Death, Sam Vimes, and Granny Weatherwax.
Or basically, using this chart, three of the four major groupings; and of the remainder, I like the Ancient Civilizations ones and the YA ones, so I have gone from "not everything, just the special ones" to "everything but the Rincewind books and the Industrial Revolution books, the latter mainly because I never got around to reading any".
Now, woe the first, which is mainly me being lazy, is that these do not exist as omnibus groupings (which would be awesome for the ebook versions; just have "The Collected Witches Novels of Discworld" and "The Collected Death Novels of Discworld" and so on, so that the related books just are one huge file. But eh.
Woe the second, which is a huger deal: *this is a fuckton of money*, at least relative to my life.
A lot of them are on sale for $3.99 instead of $9.99 -- not all, and e.g. Small Gods is reduced all the way to 9.09 what a ~bargain~ but for the moment assume for the ease of calculation that they are. Six Witches books plus four YA books plus two AC books plus five Death books plus seven Watch novels? $96. Granted, that's 24 books, so it's not anywhere close to the scale of, say, college textbooks, but it's also a) close to a hundred dollars, and b) not the actual price as not all of them are $4.
And of course the way Kindle books work, you can't shove them all in a single shopping cart to see the cost. It's just one-click. For each one.
Mrgh.