My to-be-read pile keeps getting higher and higher. Fortunately, ebooks don’t take up much in the way of physical space or I would be in trouble. I must have a backlog of close to 500 ebooks waiting to be read.
I’m beginning to think that being a booklover is more akin to an illness than to anything else. The ease with which we can accumulate and store ebooks — and that so many of us are unable to resist adding to our ebook collection — should create a new psychological disorder along the lines of hoarding. I’m not sure what to name it, but now is the time to start thinking of names so perhaps I can get bragging rights when the American Psychological Association finally recognizes my named disorder.
Anyway, it’s time to list the new acquisitions. As usual I begin with hardcovers.
Hardcovers —
- 1948: Harry Truman’s Improbable Victory by David Pietrusza
- The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election by Zachary Karabell
- The Annotated Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
- The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
- Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance by Michael Goldfarb
eBooks (a partial list of recent acquisitions) —
- Show No Mercy: A Michael Dodge Thriller by Brian Drake
- Mist Warriors by Rebecca Shelley
- The Chicago Druid and the Ugly Princess by Thomas Kennedy
- Hunting the Wolfpack by Michael McQuade
- Starseeker by Stephen Shypitka
- Openers by Michael E. Benson
- Dark Moon Rising by B.K. Reeves
- Dead is Dead by James Gabriel
- Vindicator by Denney Clements
- Untouchable by Scott O’Connor
- The Girl Born of Smoke by Jessica Billings
- Shadow Touch by Erin Kellison
- Ransome’s Honor by Kaye Dacus
- Night Bird’s Reign by Holly Taylor
- Legwork: A Casey Jones Mystery by Katy Munger
- Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
- Birchwood by Robert Taylor
- Deadworld by J.N. Duncan
- The Girl Who Tweaked Two Lions’ Tails by Pierre Van Rooyen
- Mama Does Time by Deborah Sharp
- Deadly Sanctuary by Sylvia Nobel
- Until Proven Guilty by J.A. Nance
- Rys Rising by Tracy Falbe
- The Society of Dirty Hearts by Ben Cheetham
As is usual with the ebooks, the purchase price of nearly all of the ebooks was “free.” With all of the free ebooks that are available, including from traditional publishers, I am beginning to wonder if there is really a future for the larger corporate publishers. I am accumulating so many freebies that I never have to buy a high-priced Agency 6 book to have something to read — even if 85% of the freebies turn out to be not readable at all.
For the big publishing houses, this should be worrisome. Alas, I do not think it even registers with them — if it does, it isn’t reflected in the pricing of Agency 6 ebooks.
An American Editor 