What are you looking forward to reading this summer???

[FrogAlum]

I don't have one so I'm looking for ideas!

Last summer we all seemed to be reading

The Passage  but the sequel doesn't hit until 2012.  Of course, if I decide to reread the first before the next one comes out maybe I should start that this summer! 

[gqb]

Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich comes out in June. 

[Arctic_Ranger]

If it actually comes out:

A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5)  Dance with Dragons

[sygram]

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Arctic_Ranger wrote:

If it actually comes out:

A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5)  Dance with Dragons

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Same here, although I may wait awhile after it comes out, I'm still going through a reread of Wheel of Time before A Memory of Light comes out, next year?

[FrogAlum]

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gqb wrote:

Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich comes out in June. 

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YES, how did I forget that one?

Look what I just found for those of us that drink the TC Kool-Aid

Against All Enemies  coming out June 14th...

[ABthree]

Coming out this August:

Basilisk (Chimera Series #2)

  

While I'm waiting, Nallia has gotten me hooked on the Inheritance Cycle:

Eragon (Inheritance Cycle Series #1) , so I suspect that some of them are in my future.

Meanwhile, there's plenty waiting on my Nook. 

[FrogAlum]

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ABthree wrote:

Meanwhile, there's plenty waiting on my Nook. 

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Isn't that the truth!  I forgot just how much I had on mine until I went in and coverted all my Fictionwise pdb files to epub...  Yikes, I have a lot of books I haven't read yet...  Now I just have to get all the metadata corrected on those so I can add them to my Nook Color...

[ABthree]

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FrogAlum wrote:

Isn't that the truth!  I forgot just how much I had on mine until I went in and coverted all my Fictionwise pdb files to epub... 

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How did you do that?  Didn't they have DRM?

[FrogAlum]

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ABthree wrote:

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FrogAlum wrote:

Isn't that the truth!  I forgot just how much I had on mine until I went in and coverted all my Fictionwise pdb files to epub... 

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How did you do that?  Didn't they have DRM?

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They sure did...  Yes, feel free to slap at me, those that feel they must. 

I look at it this way:

1. I purchased the books and did so from a BN owned company.
2. BN developed a reader that will not allow me to read that format.
3. I feel I have the right to read those books on whichever Nook I choose.
4. This was done for my own personal use, not to upload to the different P2P sites.

Google Calibre DRM removal and look for ALF.

Start to finish it took 10 minutes and I had many FW books...

The only bad thing is the fact you cannot convert something already in Calibre, you must import them as new books so all the metadata has to be fixed all over again.  Still, it's much better than purchasing them all over again.

[ABthree]

@FrogAlum

No slaps from here.

I have some FW PDBs myself, and hate what the Agency conspirators have done to FW.  I also think, as we've discussed many times, that making the NookColor incompatible with PDBs was the stupidest eReader decision that B&N has made since they first got into the business.  It's inconceivable to me that they haven't corrected it yet.

[FrogAlum]

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ABthree wrote:

@FrogAlum

No slaps from here.

I have some FW PDBs myself, and hate what the Agency conspirators have done to FW.  I also think, as we've discussed many times, that making the NookColor incompatible with PDBs was the stupidest eReader decision that B&N has made since they first got into the business.  It's inconceivable to me that they haven't corrected it yet.

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LOL  I didn't expect you to...  Just those that think you can somehow pirate from yourself. 

Yeah, poor FW...  I ended up several hundred dollars ahead buying through them...  Ahhh, the good old days of just over a year ago.

[JackalopeKing]

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher... 13th book in the Dresden Files series. His twelfth book was the first to end with a cliffhanger. >_<

[kathylcsw]

I plan to finally get up to date on the Kinsey Millhone series. I have almost finished "Q is for Quarry" so should be through "U" by the end of summer. I am also looking forward to the new Southern Vampire series book by Charlaine Harris. It is coming out in early May. The last few haven't been as good as the first few but I am still anticipating a new book in the series.

Basically I am just looking forward to a relaxed week of reading with my Nook at the beach this summer. It is going to be so nice not to have to drag a huge, heavy bag of books this year. I normally read 5-7 books the week I am at the beach and my Nook is going to make it so much better.

[JohnP51]

No plans here. As was mentioned above, I have so many on my nook now to read that adding to that list makes no sense. My immediate plans, now that my busy time of year is over, is to take my nook to the mothership this weekend, enjoy a hot chai latte and browse. I might even buy a DTB too. You never know. The last time I was in our B&N they were putting in shelving for games and such. I hope there are enough books left for me to browse.

[lilkim714]

Right now I am about halfway through Robin Paige's Victorian Mystery Series and once I finish those I plan to spend the summer rereading some favorites of mine: Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Mystery Series. I am so excited and can't wait to revisit Koko, Yum Yum and Qwilleran.

[LindaAsh]

 The Gray Wolf Throne (A Seven Realms Novel)  comes out on my birthday in August. Can't wait! I'm hoping to get a signed copy, so I won't be nooking this one.  

[steffiebaby140]

I am hoping to finally get around to those classics I got from B&N for free last year.  I've read one or two but I have so many more that I need to get to.  Also my yearly reading goal of 30,000 pages, half of which must be non-fiction or classic literature is severely lacking in both right now lol.

I also may attempt Under the Dome by Stephen King but just the sheer size of that has daunted me so far.

[ABthree]

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JohnP51 wrote:

No plans here. As was mentioned above, I have so many on my nook now to read that adding to that list makes no sense. My immediate plans, now that my busy time of year is over, is to take my nook to the mothership this weekend, enjoy a hot chai latte and browse. I might even buy a DTB too. You never know. The last time I was in our B&N they were putting in shelving for games and such. I hope there are enough books left for me to browse.

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You could Read-in-Store some of the books on your Wish List -- that's one of my favorite things to to onboard the mothership.

[AlanNJ Inspired Bibliophile]

I have no clue what I'll read this summer.  I rarely plan my reading in advance.  I just go through my e-book list and read whatever sounds good at the time.

[kathylcsw]

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steffiebaby140 wrote:

I also may attempt Under the Dome by Stephen King but just the sheer size of that has daunted me so far.

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I think you will find it well worth your while to read Under the Dome. It was really, really good. The ending was a little ehhh but everything else more than made up for it. The man is a student of human behavior for sure.