iPad books I've bought

I thought I should make a list of the eBooks I’ve bought and read, excluding gratis classics, since I got my iPad at the beginning of April 2010. 

I think I am probably reading at twice my usual rate.   I also own more books now, since I don’t have to worry about investing in more bookshelves.  (I can’t yet download my public library eBooks onto the iPad; so I can’t test if I’d borrow rather than won a percentage of these books.)

Most eBooks are ones I would own.  I purchased several heavily illustrated books not available in eBooks during this time.  I downloaded Paul Harding’s novel, TINKER as soon as the eBook was released after it won the Pulitzer, and bought a paperback as a gift.

iPad Apps

Alpha Wolfram, App Developer and Thomas Gray, photographer, THE ELEMENTS -- The most innovative, authoritative and interactive iBook on the iPad. It makes me wish I'd been awake in Chemistry class!

Bill Clark, ACADIA: The Story Behind the Scenery (Just screen shots of pages with text and color, but good for planning a trip.)

Benjamin Vu, Michael Kingerly, Stephanie Olesh, TRUCKS! (If they add spelling the letters of the word on each page to the drawings of single trucks -- audio is really good for "Monster Truck" -- I'd pay for the upgrade for my great-nephew the kindergartner.)

I have, of course, also bought print editions during this time at my normal rate. 

Many of these eBooks are ones I probably would have postponed purchasing in print, since I do not have a bookstore within 15 miles of my house, and it is easy to browse through “sampling” on the bookstore Apps, easier than the Amazon online store.  I also find it easier to read books on related subjects simultaneously (such as Wood and Rakov, who each write about early American politics).

Kindle, B&N, iBookstore, and Kobo eBooks

Paul Davies, THE EERIE SILENCE

Fyodor Dostoevsky, THE DOUBLE AND THE GAMBLER, Translated by Richard Pavear and Larissa Volkhonskey

Jack Rakov, THE REVOLUTIONARIES

Mark Lila, THE STILLBORN GOD

Gordon Wood, EMPIRE OF LIBERTY

Kathryn Schultz, BEING WRONG

Laura Skandera Twombley, MARK TWAIN’S OTHER WOMEN

Gavin Harper, SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS FOR THE EVIL GENIUS

Laurie King, THE GOD OF THE HIVE

J.A. Konrath, THE NEWBIE’S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING EVERYTHING A WRITER NEEDS TO KNOW

Stefanie Pintoff, THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM

Steig Larsson, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST and

 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

Virginia Woolf, MRS. DALLOWAY

Timothy Ferris, THE SCIENCE OF LIBERTY

Otto Penzler, Ed., THE LINEUP

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, THE PHYSICS OF NASCAR

Stephen Prothero, GOD IS NOT ONE

Paul Harding, TINKERS

Connie Willis, FIRE WATCH