Why I need infinite money, reason #243

[ysobel]

I 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.

Comments

[highlander_ii]

Have you looked at borrowing ebook versions from a library? Or, if you have a friend w/ kindle versions - they can loan them to you for 14 days (technically longer if you disconnect your kindle from the interwebs).

[ysobel]

My library has precisely six digital results for Pratchett: Good Omens (not DW), The Long Earth (not DW), I Shall Wear Midnight audiobook (YA 5), Wee Free Men (YA 2; I guess Maurice is the first), Wintersmith (YA 4), and Dodger audiobook (now DW). "Additional Titles to recommend" has more but you can only recommend 6 books.

It's a very annoying system.

[highlander_ii]

booo for your library system.

I did find this book lending site: http://booklending.com/borrow-book.htm?search=Discworld (that pulls results for a Discworld search) - you can search for specific titles too. Might be of interest/use to you? Nevermind... it has 'ask amazon to make this lendable' which is less helpful. =(

[ysobel]

Not helpful for this, but still a v. cool site :D

[princessofgeeks]

Yeah, I'm pretty much in the same boat, except I don't own hard copies of very many of them. But I really need to read more of them. For sure. And that generally does mean buying them, at least for me….

[conuly]

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.

That's intentional, I'm sure. Frustrating as heck.

[ysobel]

Oh, definitely intentional. Impulse buys (and lack of awareness at how much you are spending) are better for them.

Boo.