Sony contacted me about doing a giveaway in celebration of the premiere of Eat Pray Love, which hits theatres this week. A Sony Pocket! In sexy silver! With a leather case (that is really a beautiful shade of blue on the outside) and two download codes for both of Elizabeth Gilbert’s books! Woo hoo for digital reading devices!
I know many of you are paper reading fanatics – which is absolutely awesome with sauce – but if you’re curious about trying digital reading but haven’t gathered all your pennies into one place to buy one, here’s a chance to win one, AND get a beautiful leather cover (can you tell I really like that blue?) with two free books.
All you have to do is leave a comment here and tell me, if you won, which book would be the first book you’d put on your Sony Reader, aside from the two free downloads? A romance? A mystery? A book on how to make your own leather Sony Reader cover with skulls and crossbones? I’ll pick one at random and announce the winner on Friday 20 August (Good Lord willing, creeks don’t rise, etc). You’ve got 48 hours to tell me which book gets to be “FIRST!” in your Reader.
Disclaimer: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. I don’t even get the pretty blue leather cover, much as I love that color like whoa and nelly. Tie your shoes. Machine wash cold, lay flat to dry. Do not dry clean. Not available at salons. Digital ink on 100% post-consumer bytes. Melts in your mouth, not in your hand. Not recommended for children. Prerecorded for this time zone. This broadcast has been reformatted to fit your screen. No solicitors. You can learn more about the bundle at the Sony Style store, and you can really really like Sony Readers on Facebook.
I really like my sony reader but there is something about actually having a book in my hand I miss..
Curtain, by Agatha Christie. I’ll need a drink w/ that and tissue.
Easy peasy. For me it would be Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. My all time favourite!
Great giveaway btw!:)
The next SB Book Club selection 🙂
First download: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
I heard a RadioLab episode with the author, and it sounds like a fascinating read.
Thanks for the contest!
after someone got out the smelling salts and woke me up from winning heh I’d buy Sherillyn Kenyon’s No mercy as soon as it come out. And my son is wanting Mockinbyrd I think it is by the lady who wrote The Hunger games. I’d buy that for him and let him try it out.
but he’d have to sit right beside me and not move rofl.
first download? “Pride and Prejudice” because it still makes me laugh and cry. . .you can never go wrong with Austen!
second download? “Finishing the Hat” by Stephen Sondheim
and enough time and attention to read both uninterrupted!
heh – list48 – yes, I could list at least 48 more books to download!
Most definitely Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Dart.
The first book I’d put on would be Dead Until Dark…followed by the rest of the Southern Vampires series, which I’m a few books behind on. There’s a long long list of books after those are added.
My first download would be The Devil Wears Plaid by Teresa Medeiros.
Easy Peasy! “Caressed by Ice” by Nalini Singh, since that’s the next in the series that I’m due to read. Although I’d probably just get them all in e-format so I could gobble them all down without interruption!
My first download would be “According to Jane” by Marilyn Brant. It’s a quirky story that I’d love to read again!
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart-I’ve been on the waiting list at the library for ages. I would take winning as a sign that I should buy it.
I’l put the most recent Rick Steve’s Venice guide on it … because I’m going to travel in September. I’m going on a cruise and I’ll hit three different countries, just like Gilbert, and my travels also start in Italy.
I’ve really been trying to justify getting one of these bad boys, but with a new baby on the way and possbibly a house…I gotta win (this contest, the lottery..etc.) to own. If I did win (!!), I would fisrt buy Janet Mullany’s ‘Reader, I Married Him’, beucase she’s an auto buy for me and fabulous. And also because I want to try the whole Gothic Romance on for size- without zombies, vampires or werewolves.
My first download would be Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos. I borrowed the hardcover edition from my library and want to take it on vacation but it will definitely weigh me down!
Jane Eyre followed by the works of Jane Austen followed by Elizabeth Hoyt’s first trilogy: The Raven Prince, The Leopard Prince and The Serpent Prince. Next, would be everything L.Kinsale and then, everything L. Chase.
mmm – really hard choice, but first one would have to be Elizabeth Lowell’s “Pearl Cove”. Archer Donovan is my ultimate romance hero and if he would just appear to me IRL, I would die a happy woman – barring that, having him in digital format for my “whenever the mood strikes” reading pleasure would have to suffice.
First would have to be Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase, followed closely by At Grave’s End by Jeaniene Frost, and then The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper. Genre-jump much? 🙂
Thanks!
Definitely one of my favorite books, “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” by Alison Weir. Even though I’ve read it many times, I still love it so much. The author really sucks you back in time so you feel like you’re getting to know the people and walking along side them. Brilliant.
First would have to be Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold, because I have been waiting for my next Miles installment for years, literally.
For me, it could go one of two ways.
Either I would buy something really, really good, like a Loretta Chase or a Laura Kinsale novel.
Or I’d try to find something mind-blowingly bad to make me laugh and laugh and laugh.
It’s truly a win-win situation.
I think maybe Jennifer Crusie’s “Maybe This Time” or possibly something new by Anne Stuart (really liked the first of the House of Rohan trilogy, so maybe the second one) or maybe John Irving’s latest.
So many choices! (And silver and blue, my two favorite colors! w00t!) Okay, the absolute first book I would download would be…I have no clue! I’d be downloading left and right everything on my wish list that’s available!
Spam word: thirty74 Oh yeah, I’d download that many!
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey. (Jane Austen! with Magic!).
And Stitch N Bitch Nation. As a new knitter, I like being able to keep my reference work handy.
I think the first (new) book I’d put on the Sony Reader would be Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos De Laclos. It’s one of my favorite movies, but the original novel has been in my “to read” pile for ages. (Scheming, plotting, vengeance all covered in elegant prose and social graces – what’s not to love?)
Then I’d upload my little collection of e-books and go on a spree at my favorite e-book sites for more.
The first book I would put on it is Susan Grant’s Your Planet or Mine.
It’s one of the many books I’ve already purchased in eformat, but have not yet read as I don’t like sitting in front of my PC to read and my ancient laptop is too heavy to lug around, so I only use it when I read in bed.
First thing I would put on it would probably be some classics from Project Gutenberg. After that, perhaps some contemporary YA!
The first book would have to be Susan Collin’s Mockingjay which comes out August 24th- I just can’t wait!!!! 🙂
As much as I hate jumping into these things like a voracious piranha for a freebie… Sony is awesome and I have a leather fetish. :p
First book would be whatever’s next on my list in J.D. Robb’s In Death series… and dayum that’s a lot of titles. I think I’m about halfway there.
After that I think I’d go for something really romance-y like the Lord of Scoundrels you guys like so much.
My bosom is already a’heavin’. :p
Ooh! First would be the new Loretta Chase, ‘cause I’m still struggling to decide whether LOS or Lord Perfect is my favorite of hers and I’d love to read something that blows them both away.
Next would either be the new Kresley Cole or Lisa Kleypas, though the Prydain series has been whispering that it needs to be reread (again), since the last time I read it, I was pregnant (which is how I ended up with a daughter named ‘Taran’).
Thanks for the great contest, and indeed the cover is lovely!
Unless I win this I’ll never move into the digital age, so there.
1. Mark Twain’s uncensored autobiography coming out in Nov.
2. Tanya French’s new one b/c I cannot wait, I tell you.
The first book that I would download is “Bet Me” by Jennifer Cruise. It’s my favourite book of all time. I’ve probably read it 10 times all the way through and I frequently re-read snippets of it. I found the book at my university’s library when I was 18 and read it in a few hours (skipping class to do so!). I returned it (as one does with library books) and could never find it again. Last year I was searching the Zellers book table, where all books are $5 each, and found the book again. Different, uglier cover, but same content. I snapped it up and it has a treasured place on my bookshelf. But if I had an e-reader, I could bring it with me EVERYWHERE.
I would most definitely put Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay on it first- it won’t be released as a paperback for a while and the hardcover is big and awkward! (and had to be returned to the library before I had time to finish it…)
My first book would be the next title in the Smart Bitches Bookclub.
I’d go with Lord of Scoundrels, because I reread it so often.
What a tough decision!
But I’d have to go with The Wish List by Gabi Stevens.
I also just discovered Tera Lynn Childs. Who knew YA could be that awesome!
First would be The Girl who Played with Fire by Larsson. Can’t wait to finish reading the series!
Nora Roberts’ The Villa is a comfort read for me. Can’t be without David & Tyler.
first book I would put on it would be Cryoburn in eARC, Lois Bujold’s new Miles book – I don’t want to have to wait til October to read it!
Next would be The Search by Nora Roberts…
not that I ever win anything, but for a pretty new Sony Reader, I’ve gotta try.