Recommendations I Could Use

[walkitout]

I have a substance abuse problem. With books. I know this. I engage in some mitigation, notably, I really try hard not to buy pbooks any more so I don't have to expend so much time and energy getting rid of books to make space for new ones. I don't actually intend to stop reading (or even significantly reduce the amount of reading I do), altho I will note that over the last few years I've been substituting with match-3 games. It's not clear this is an improvement.

Anyway. I alternate (not strictly, just roughly) between non-fiction and trashy fiction. I'm morally opposed to Literature and avoid it whenever possible. The trashy fiction mostly consists of series, so as to reduce the amount of effort to find more trashy fiction when I want it/reduce the got-the-right-kind-of-trash problem. Every few weeks, I'm off to Amazon to review my kindle archive and see what is out new from the people I have bought in the past.

This is incredibly ridiculous. My recommendations on Amazon rarely include The Next Entry in the serieses (<-- that can't possibly be a word) I am already reading. Why not? Hacking a separate feature to recommendations to add this (here are _new_ entries in series you have already bought at least 3 of, say) would make this so much easier. Amazon started life with a feature to notify you when authors you were tracking released something. That was borderline useless, but I'd _love_ a new-series-entry-available e-mail/message/wtf. Or maybe make it available through subscribe-and-save ...

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I can think of one book, but ...

[byrdie.livejournal.com]

Carol Queen's The Leather Daddy and the Femme isn't available by e-book yet, as far as I can tell. There are two editions: they heavily edited, white-covered first edition; and the larger, blue author's cut. The abridged version is just smut, while the big one also includes the more complex gender and sexuality conversations all the friends & partners have.

i have and cherish both: the white one because it's the original, and the blue one because a) some of the sexual groupings make a hell of a lot more sense with the story intact, and b) the theory conversations were sexy geek relationship and visionary talk that didn't attract from the smut for me at all, but actually added a dimension to the overall fantasy that Queen was building.

If you pinkie-swear to gimme back my book when you're done reading it, I'll loan it to you via mail. Replacing it will be a bitch and a half given the prices listed on Amazon.com for the uncut edition, but you're one of the few people from whom I'd trust a book related pinkie-swear.