Fictionwise by Eaglethorpe Buxton

Fictionwise is my favorite ebook store on the web, though they were recently bought by Barnes and Noble so we’ll have to see if they remain my favorite. You can buy plenty of great books in ebook form here, usually saving yourself a lot of money and the lives of quite a few poor trees as well.

The only thing wrong with Fictionwise, so far as I can tell, is that they do not yet offer the wonderful stories by that wonderful adventurer story-teller, which is to say Eaglethorpe Buxton, which is to say me. But maybe soon. Also, they could use more epub, and I don’t even know what that is, but it does put me in mind of a pub I used to visit called the Upset Elf Pub, which as you can see, has a pub and an e in it. The Upset Elf had some of the finest ales and chubbiest serving wenches I have ever, um… experienced.

Here’s to good times!

The Library of Alexandria

I have always loved books. In our house, we have a bookshelf (at least one) in every room, including most of the closets. Though I’ve given away most of the paperback books that I’ve read over the years, I love keeping my books, rereading them, looking at them, and smelling them. This may sound weird to you non-bibliophiles, but true book-lovers know of which I speak.

Now that I’m into eBooks, I’m trying to build an impressive eBook library. I’ve added a few books almost every single day. I try to download at least one book a day from Manybooks, Munsey’s, and Feedbooks; and download several from Mobile Read Forums. I check the Finding Free Ebooks blog and the Ebooks Just Published blog every day. Plus I buy books from various eBook sellers– notably the Sony eBook Store and Fictionwise. As yet, I’ve spent less than $100.00.

My goal is to have a library to rival the fabled library of ancient Alexandria. It is supposed to have had up to a million scrolls, representing tens of thousands of books. Call it 50,000 for a nice round number. I’ve got a way to go. I just passed the 1250 mark.