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.
It’s a hard choice, but right now it’d be The Search by Nora Roberts, as I’ve been wanting to read it for a while.
Depending on how patient I felt, either Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong (out now) or Ann Aguirre’s Killbox (due out next month, I believe).
Thanks for the great giveaway!
The first book that I would download is War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I almost certainly will not read it, but it will be on there for when I finally muster the gumption to do it.
the first romance I ever read—The Bride Finder by Susan Carroll—would love to have it to read over and over.
Chiming in with everyone who says they’ll put Cyroburn on there first. Love me some Miles Vorkosigan!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh this is too hard to pick just one book but if I must I would pick “A Secret Kept” by Tatiana de Rosnay because I absolutely loved Sarah’ Key.
Love & Hugs,
Pam
It would be the new Terry Pratchet “I shall wear midnight”, although no romance it is a YA about witches, and part three of a series
Throwing my hat in the ring since I’ve wanted an ereader for forever and haven’t gotten the money together (and I’ve had everyone around me telling me I’m stupid for even contemplating getting one because it’s a waste of money and what is wrong with me, anyway? Ugh)
Anyway, the first book I would put on there would probably be I Will Repay by Baroness Orczy, because ever since I found out that there are like 10 sequels (plus some prequels and some other stuff) to the Scarlet Pimpernel, one of my all time favorite books, I’ve been hell bent on finding them all. But I can only ever find them online. No bookstores seem to have any but the original. And I can tell you right now, waiting for shipping is a gigantic pain in the butt.
Ooooh. The first thing I’d put on it might be one of the few e-books I already own so that I don’t even have to wait and buy one. That would mean Yorkshire by Lynne Connelly or Collision Course by K.A. Mitchell. If I did decide to wait the 5 minutes it would take me to buy something, it would probably be Rising Tides by Nora Roberts. I just finished Sea Swept, and I’m itching to continue the series!
hmmm my first book would probably be the new steampunk book by Meljean Brook. I loved her short story in Burning up.
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson.
OOO! great giveaway!
First book I would want to download…Toss up between Meljean Brooks ‘Iron King’ or Nalini Singh’s ‘Archangel’s Kiss’.
If I won the Sony Reader, the first book I’d download would be “Beyond Heaving Bosoms” since I’m new to this blog and recently heard about the book. Then it would definitely be “Mockinjay” and anything by Linda Howard!
My first ebook if i won would be Jeanine frost’s Eternal kiss of Darkness because I had forgotten it had been released until i saw the ad in the sidebar of this page. lol
as we all know i’m not an ereader convert and if i’m to be convinced it’d best be free.
mary
First would be “Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation” by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim. The book looks both funny and interesting. I would rather read it on a reader so that I don’t have to deal with comments / goofy looks from strangers on the train.
The second would be “Sylvester” by Heyer. It’s my favorite of her books so far, and I’ve been dying to read it again.
I think I’d get an old favorite first. Probably The Devil In Winter by Lisa Kleypas. It’d be a fight between that and Eloisa James’ Pleasure for Pleasure.
My first book would be “Saving Grace” by Julie Garwood.
I’m not sure if this counts as a romance, but I just finished reading Souless by Gail Carriger and I can’t get Changeless at my local bookstore, so Changeless would likely be my first purchase.
Ugg How do I choose!! I’m a library girl but I would invest in a classic- so probably Room With A View that I have read a hundred times and will probably read a hundred more.
Reading through these comments is giving me a lot of ideas! I would choose “Too Wicked to Kiss” by Erica Ridley. It’s a gothic romance and I really hope it lives up to the hype 🙂
The first book I would buy is Jennifer Crusies’s upcoming new release.
Oh shiny! I would put Kathy Reichs Deadly Décisions because I want to read it so badly but can’t afford new books and it sure as hell will be cheaper as an ebook than getting it in a Swiss bookstore:)
I would have to say that the first book I would download would be A Breath of Snow and Ashes. I own it in hardcover and, at almost 1000 pages, it is a little massive to haul around. And how could I resist that sexy, sleek, Sony!
The Lonely Polygamist – sounds intriguing!
Mockinjay would be my first download. And then the first two so I could re-read them all again.
This is going to out me as a nerd, but the first book I’d put on an e-reader is the first book I always buy in English when I’m abroad alone for any period of time—Frank Herbert’s Dune. I find it soothing and familiar, since I’ve read it at least a dozen times, and it’s a really great story!
Crusie’s Maybe This Time. No doubt. 🙂
I would buy any of Lynne Graham’s backlist books that I don’t already have. I would also load the Sony up with all the free ebooks that I already have on my computer
My confirm word: want52 – Yes, I want 52 of Lynne Graham’s backlist books
My first book would be Jeaniene Frost’s “Eternal Kiss of Darkness”. She is one of my favorite vampire writing authors!
The first ebook will be Gone with the Wind.
This thread is so fun to read.
I’d put David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day and give it to my dad. His increased dementia means he can’t read novels any more (can’t remember the plot), just episodic or short story formats. I’ve been trying to get him to try an ebook reader for a while for a number of reasons.
Given how beat up my hardcover is getting from being reread A LOT the last few years, probably Bujold’s Curse of Chalion. First romance would probably be several short stories I’ve bookmarked from Samhain, either that or I’d be sentimental and stick on “These Old Shades” which was the first romance I read.
Oooh, this is so exciting! Well, I’m actually really excited for the two free downloads, but I would probably get the last book in The Girls with the Dragon Tatoo series because this is one mystery series that I’ve been having trouble putting down! I just finished the second one and can’t wait to pick up a copy of the third.
HOLY MOLY BATMAN!! There are 307 people to post before me!! I don’t always post, but I always read, and this was mind boggling! But i guess it makes since.. because Hello!! I don’t always post either. I wonder what your most posts EVER are??
So, if I won I would download the 3rd Ardien English novel by Josh Lanyon “The Hell You Say”. Because it is 15 big ones on amazon and only 7.99 for the ebook. It’a a m/m mystery. 😀
FIRST book?!? Are you kidding me? The only reason there would ever even BE a “first” is that I can’t do massive-multiple downloads at once!! I have a list of authors that I either 1) Haven’t had the pleasure of enjoying yet, or 2) Have new or newer books that I have not yet been able to buy. Here, in no particular order, are some of the authors I would immediately glom:
Suzanne Collins Hunger Games Trilogy
The last several Kresley Coles (my god, that series is like crack)
Any and all of Meljean Brook
The third Gail Carriger the minute it releases (ok, ok, so it can’t be FIRST)
Steig Larsson (cause I just checked the first hardcover out of the library and my hands already hate me)
All of the damn GRR Martins, so I can remember WTF is going on before Game of Thrones premieres on HBO next year
Wish to doG I’d had an e-reader when I read The Passage last month. Holy Cow that’s a big puppy in hardcover
As for favorites? I’d probably go ahead and buy the original Kushiel’s Dart trilogy to have on hand—beautiful
Um, the entire Foreigner series by CJ Cherryh—I could re-read those forever on a desert island
Somebody stop me!
HOLY MOLY BATMAN!! There are 311 people to post before me!! I don’t always post, but I always read, and this was mind boggling! But i guess it makes since.. because Hello!! I don’t always post either. I wonder what your most posts EVER are??
So, if I won I would download the 3rd Ardien English novel by Josh Lanyon “The Hell You Say”. Because it is 15 big ones on amazon and only 7.99 for the ebook. It’a a m/m mystery. 😀
(And if you find this posted randomly somewhere else.. I’m sorry. I think I posted it in the wrong blog spot, because I can’t find it after I hit enter. Maybe I didn’t hit enter, who knows?? lol)
I would download Such a Pretty Face by Cathy Lamb, it’s my next group read. 😀
I would have to say Sherrilyn Kenyon – No Mercy!! : )
And for some reason, I immediately wondered, “How would someone wanting to win ‘Queen for a Day’ answer this question?” Because all I could think of was (breathlessly, like Marilyn Monroe) “The first book I would put on my new Sony Reader is …
—the Bible
—in braille so my blind little sister could read it
—or a book to help me build a cart so my dog, Muffy, who lost the use of her back legs in a tragic accident involving a reaper, could walk again without help.”
See, this is what happens, eventually, to those of us who grew up with the pathos and bathos of game shows from the ‘50s and ‘60s; this is the stuff we remember.
My saner self would want Truthseeker by C. E. Murphy.
Once I recovered from the lack of oxygen caused by my sustained scream of joy I would seek out a electronic version of Margaret Mahy’s “The Chageover”. I’d finally have a copy that wouldn’t disappear from storage while I was overseas (copy 1), be loaned by my sis (w/o asking) to her bestest friend who unexpectedly got sent state-side and took the book with her (copy 2), or (copy 3) get eaten by a cat with a book shredding addiction- still not sure how she got past the rubber bands keeping the glass doors closed. There is a reason that most of my treasured books now live at a storage facility until she expires of old age.