Update: My publisher made a mistake on the date they sent me about the eBook sale. It won’t be effective until later in the month although right now on Amazon the price is as I show. That isn’t going to last. So if you do go out and look for the books, make sure the price is $2.99. If it isn’t, just give it a couple of weeks and I’ll let you know when the deal goes live for real.
Do you like to read ebooks?
I can see some of you out there shaking Uyour heads. You like the feel of an actual paper book in your hands. You like to turn the pages. Maybe you like to peek ahead in the story to make sure things are going to turn out right.
I’m there with all of you. I like having the book in hand. I like being busy all day and knowing that a book is waiting beside my favorite reading chair when the chores are all finished. Well, I don’t know if the chores are ever all finished because the floors get dirty again and meals have to be prepared and the grass keeps growing… You get the idea. Those kinds of need to do things keep happening over and over. But when you love to read, books and stories keep happening too. Settling down with a book is a great way to escape into a new world for a while every day.
Here’s a favorite line from Along a Storied Trail, one of the books on special sale this month. 
Maybe like you, I was slow to embrace ebooks, even slower to enjoy audio books. Now I like both. While I still enjoy that book in my lap, I do read on my Kindle and my IPad. Even more surprising, I read on my phone. My sons both read on their phones and I used to tell them I’d never do that. But that never word sometimes disappears. A few years ago, my husband had a health emergency that ended with us in an emergency room for hours. He was mostly sleeping. I had no signal on my phone. I had no book in my pocket. It was a very long day. Thankfully, he recovered. And I loaded some books up on my phone just in case I was ever again stranded without anything to read. I joined BookBub and downloaded more books. I’ve discovered some great books that way I might have never given a try.
It’s been the same with audio books when I finally took the plunge there. With audio books, I can “read” while I’m busy with some of those have-to-do chores. While my hands are busy, I can listen to someone reading me a story. I think I began to warm up to audio books after I narrated a few of my own stories that didn’t get audio contracts through the publisher. I’ve loved doing that narration and having those audio books out for reader/listeners.
If you like ebooks or I’ve talked you into giving one, or maybe two, a try, then this is for you. Everybody likes a sale. Especially when that sale is a bargain. Right now you can give two of my ebooks a try for the low price of $2.99 each. You can get one or both at your favorite ebook site such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble. You can find a variety of buy links on my website if you go to the book pages. Do be sure to check the price before you download the book since sales come and go and some booksellers may not be on board with the reduced ebook price.
What do you like about ebooks? Or don’t like?
One last note:
Remember, I have a giveaway going for a print copy of The Gifted here on my blog. Deadline to enter is February 6, 2024 at midnight EST. Leave a comment and you’ll be entered in the drawing. Each time you leave a comment on a new post before the 6th, you get an additional entry.
As always, thanks for reading.
Comments 17
Love all ways. Do like the fact of listening & being able to do different things.
Author
Fun comments, everyone. My daughter was visiting for a few days this week. So, I didn’t get time to respond until now. As I expected, most of you like print books best, but several of you like the convenience of ebooks. You can carry them with you and have a hundred or who knows how many in your pocket all the time. You can read in the dark. You are never without a book if you have your phone with you. (That’s the best point for me.) It helps, as Lavon says, to keep you always within reach of a book. Love her grandmother’s saying that you never have to be bored if you have a book to read. And a good thing about the ebooks, if you get bored with one of them, you can always try a different one you have downloaded.
All that said, I do still love a print book too and wish I had a room devoted entirely to bookcases full of books. I think that’s called a library. 🙂 I’m like you, Evelyn, that I love going in a library or bookstore where there are books everywhere.
Thank you all for your responses.
I also have read e-books occasionally when they’re gifted to me, but I still prefer reading print books more.
I really haven’t given way a try. I guess one of these days I should stop being stubborn and try a different way of reading books.
In the last few years I’ve mostly read ebooks!!
No as I have a problem with my eyes that I only read print books. Love the feel and turning the pages in a print book Have a Blessed week!
I started reading ebooks during the COVID shutdown. I love the convenience but still prefer to hold a book. I’m also trying to read more physical books at home so I won’t be accused of being on my phone too much. “But I’m reading!”
I don’t read ebooks as I get occular migraines and it can trigger them plus I love the feel of a book in my hands. Blessings!
I prefer a regular book, but I love the ease of carrying my Kindle with me. I seldom leave home without it. But I also have a few books (the Bible and a couple of classics ) downloaded on my phone for those emergency situations when I’m caught without something to read. In the words of my grandmother, “you can’t say you’re bored as long as you have a book.”
I used to say I would only read paper books, but as an avid reader I have discovered the convenience of ebooks on my Kindle and I love it. I do still read paper books but I love having such a large volume of books to carry with me everywhere.
I have seen people get into big arguments about paper vs electronic reading and I find that to be such a silly argument. As long as people are reading (or listening) to books isn’t that all that should matter?
Thanks for the sale info!
At first I only wanted print books because with them or can mark pages that you want to go back to. Then after trying to read ebooks, I finally figured out that as long as it’s in my kindle app, I can highlight sentences that I want to go back to. Also with ebooks they are always accessible if you have the app on your phone and you can read them at night without having to turn on any lights. But at the end of the day, I do prefer books in my hand. Audio books are harder to get used to, don’t know if I will be able to do that.
I definitely like print books that I can handle. I am more of a visual learner and like to see the words.
I am a book lover but only the ones I can hold smell and turn the paper pages, I tried a friends e-book and didn’t like it. So I will stay with books that take up space on my many book cases, and I can er-read when I want to from my collection.
I’m with you! I go to the library and love the smell! I could sleep at Barnes and Noble!
I have a strong preference for print books, but I do read ebooks on occasion, especially if the book is not in print format or that is how the book was gifted to me.
Yes I like e-books, But when I read your books I still want the real book to go in my collection!
Author
That’s so good to know, Janice. Made me smile that you want to keep my book in your collection. Thank you.