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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? January 28 (self.books)
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Finished The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson. Book 1 of 2nd era of Mistborn. This was a very interesting book. Set about 300 years after the first era. The changes in the world, and to learn about some of the characters, it was all very interesting, and I am very glad that I re-read the first era before reading this.

Finished Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton. The book was surprisingly good. I quite enjoyed it, and it didn't even feel old.

My kid is already on book 5. So, highly recommended your for your 9-12 year olds.

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Ah gotcha. It's hidden but you can have Amazon give you the ebook format. You may need to look that up. That's what I do with all my ebooks I can't get directly from the author.

If they give you their proprietary format you can use Calibre as well.

[–] dresden 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah okay, thanks! I generally don't buy much ebooks so am a bit oblivious about this. My very short e-collection is pretty much all public domain and direct from author books.

And yeah, Calibre is great, use that to connect / transfer books to my very old reader.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nice! Yeah direct from author or open publisher is the best. Thats why I like bean free library so much....

[–] dresden 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, didn't know about Bean Free Library, thanks for the mention!