Books'n'Bees
Jul. 12th, 2011 11:27 amNeil Gaiman is a beekeeper... how cool is that?!
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/07/who-bells-bees-with-photos.html
A question for the techno-minded... I'm thinking of getting a Kindle, mainly for books I can only get in e-format & those that are stupidly cheap/free in e-format. One site I know of offers e-books in several different formats including .pdf & .mobi, both of which the Kindle supports. Does anyone know which is the better format to download in?
Katharine Kerr has been one of my favourite authors since I discovered her Deverry books back during my first year at Uni... so when I found a yahoo group for her fans I joined... to be pleasantly surprised to find she regularly joins in the conversations whether peeps are discussing her books or various random topics, which is more often than not.
Then I discovered she had an LJ page so added that to my friends list. At the end of September she posted that she was putting up 3 books for a charity auction... I went to investigate. Of the 3 books I had one but not the others... now I have to explain... I started collecting this series when I lived in the UK & being anal about these things I wanted to continue collecting the UK editions... which was a bit of a pain so I hadn't gotten around to picking up the last 2 books released. As the books won would be personalised by Kit (as she refers to herself) I figured it was worth it even though I already had one.
1) I WON!!!
That was pretty awesome because I almost forgot about it... turns out I bid 1 minute before the bidding closed!
2) Kit offered me the book that came before the one I had a double of but I already had that too... so in my reply I was uber cheeky and said "but I wouldn't mind waiting until you had a trade paper copy of The Silver Mage... <bats eyelids> no? well it was worth a try <chuckle>"... her response?!? "I could do that, sure. I should get a box of them in November some time." OMG HOW AWESOME IS THAT???!!!
So Kit is now my official NUMBER 1 favourite author of all time... she totally ROCKS!