Finished the second Wool book last night. If you liked City of Ember, WALL-E or otherwise enjoy end-of-civilization-we're-stuck-in-a-decaying-lifeboat tales, you'll like these. Thanks @giff and lisl for the rec!

Oh joy! No more weird dual logins to access ebooks from the library!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lroHmxw0iyc&...

Still a little difficult browsing kindle books, but definitely better.

Finished Reamde last night. It was like a cross b/w 'For the Win' and a Jack Reacher novel. Less virtual worldsy than I expected and more fun.

Bah humbug. All these Christmas romance ebooks at the library sound so cheesy. I'll muster through somehow. Titles like "Yule Be Mine" can't be left unread.

Holiday spirit from the library. I'm so glad nypl is on bibliocommons now. http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/list/show/8752737...

From goodreads: "You have read 45 books toward your goal of 100 books (45%)...Goodreads members optimistically pledged to read 10 million books in 2011. So far we've finished 4 million with an average of 27 books per reader." Yay optimists!

Putting The Windup Girl on hold to read The Children of the Sky. I forgot how much I enjoyed the Tines.

It is taking me a very long time to work through "The Windup Girl" and my library pipeline is getting very full. Only half way through now. It's good, but doesn't keep me up reading for hours.

Started 'Matter' by Iain Banks and 'The Windup Girl' yesterday. My library pipeline overfloweth. "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898" is also waiting for me to pick up.

Now you can use Google Alerts to get notified when new books by your favorite authors are available. I've long thought it strange that Amazon doesn't do this. At least not in a way I notice. Do they do that?? http://sjot.it/pKXCSL

I started "Horns" by Joe Hill. I like the concept so far. Normalish (afaik) guy wakes up one day with horns people confess their darker urges to him. Funny thing: he references one character having a shelf of Dean Koontz novels. No love for dad??

I hope Jernau Morat Gurgeh works on being likable soon.

I finished "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis this weekend. Fun book, made even more fun for being based on "Three Men in a Boat." Recommended.

I listened to Vampire Acadamy book #5 on my 'run' this morning. Corny books are even cornier when read aloud, but I got over it pretty quickly :-D

I got "Player of Games" today, but now I see that "Consider Phlebas" comes first in The Culture series. Should I go back?

Grandma and I enjoyed the first half of "The Invisible Wall" on our drive. Told from the perspective of a 5-year old Jewish boy about his sister falling in love with a Christian boy across the street. http://amzn.com/0345495802

Are there ebooks that let you share your annotations with other people? I know the Kindle will show you everyone's notes, but I'm looking for something where I can pass my complete annotations to someone/everyone. Public domain book if that helps.

Paid my $1.75 in library fines and now I can checkout kindle books from the NYPL! I'm 123rd in line for Reamde :-P

Finished 'Rules of Civility' and thought, "I will live more adventurously!" Then I stepped outside and saw it was Friday night and people were out partying. I was going out to buy milk. Maybe tomorrow.

I started reading Rules of Civility and I am in love. I have an extra fondness for books that are set where I live, especially from another time period (1937). Lots of EV/LES. I may need my own copy to highlight.

Finally finished A Dance with Dragons last night. As long as it was, it ended to soon.

spoilers....

Does anyone else obsessively click the "Tell the Publisher! I’d like to read this book on Kindle" link on amazon.com for paper-only books? I don't know if any of the books I've clicked have gotten ebook editions. Will they email me? Want.

Non-linear reading & ebooks in the NY Times: http://nyti.ms/qGOWAg. Not being able to easily compare multiple pages seems like a drag for tech or text books. Do you make use of bookmarks or notes in your kindle/ipad/nook, etc?

When you say you are adding a book to your to-read list, do you really have a list? Where do you keep it? I usually use goodreads, but sometimes I end up with some on an amazon wishlist.

I read "Eyewall" last month and it was a pretty good read. I recommend you *not* read it in the next couple days if you live on the east coast. http://amzn.com/B00523855C

Sweet, Amazon now has daily Kindle deals. First deal is 75% off YA novel "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane". http://amazon.com/kindledailydeal (via @hiloaloha)

Has anyone read "Unwind"? I read it a while ago and it still creeps me out. I need someone to rock quietly in a corner with and then overanalyze.

It's good though. Read it. Don't let that description put you off. Hunger Games meets Never Let Me Go.

A first for me: seeing an author comment on their own book on Amazon. Orson Scott Card responds to reviews of Ender's Game on Amazon: http://sjot.it/oXXGFv. Posted in 1999, still getting comments in 2011.

What were some of your favorite books growing up? This jot got me reminiscing http://subjot.com/jot/10043

I like "A Dance with Dragons" much more than "A Feast for Crows." I'm not sure if it's because this book has more of my favorite characters or if it all seems livelier after watching Game of Thrones. Either way, loving it.