Today Sony announced that it is closing its Reader Store in the US and Canada. It will be closing on the 20th of March 2014. The press release indicated that existing libraries will be transferred over to Kobo. To be honest the news doesn’t surprise me; Amazon and Kobo have long been dominant players in the market. For those of you affected by this, it’s good to know that you won’t lose your libraries and that arrangements have been made for a handover. My biggest fear is that one day Amazon will close its doors (very unlikely) and that I will lose my entire digital library.
Today Sony announced that it is closing its Reader Store in the US and Canada. It will be closing on the 20th of March 2014. The press release indicated that existing libraries will be transferred over to Kobo. To be honest the news doesn’t surprise me; Amazon and Kobo have long been dominant players in the market. For those of you affected by this, it’s good to know that you won’t lose your libraries and that arrangements have been made for a handover. My biggest fear is that one day Amazon will close its doors (very unlikely) and that I will lose my entire digital library.
Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead is the fifth and penultimate book in the Vampire Academy series. It concludes the story arc of Rose in Siberia and what she is trying to do for Dimitri and sets up the final arc of the series. For me this was the weakest of the Vampire Academy novels. My biggest issue was that the pacing was off. It seemed there was a large gap between the climax of the Rose/Dimitri/Siberia storyline and the kickoff of the final vampire politics act. Clearly, this section is intended to explore Dimitri’s emotional state after all that’s happened to him, but as we don’t really get his point of view, only Rose’s and through the bond, Lissa’s, the whole impact of that is drastically lessened and loses immediacy. It becomes about how his attitude affects Rose, not what Dimitri himself is going through. What I liked Moroi finally getting off their arses and taking action. I really loved Lissa’s and Christian’s part in the resolution of the Dimitri storyline. It was great to see that some Moroi at least are not willing to allow dhampirs to take the full brunt of protection from Strigoi. I would have liked…
Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead is the fifth and penultimate book in the Vampire Academy series. It concludes the story arc of Rose in Siberia and what she is trying to do for Dimitri and sets up the final arc of the series. For me this was the weakest of the Vampire Academy novels. My biggest issue was that the pacing was off. It seemed there was a large gap between the climax of the Rose/Dimitri/Siberia storyline and the kickoff of the final vampire politics act. Clearly, this section is intended to explore Dimitri’s emotional state after all that’s happened to him, but as we don’t really get his point of view, only Rose’s and through the bond, Lissa’s, the whole impact of that is drastically lessened and loses immediacy. It becomes about how his attitude affects Rose, not what Dimitri himself is going through. What I liked Moroi finally getting off their arses and taking action. I really loved Lissa’s and Christian’s part in the resolution of the Dimitri storyline. It was great to see that some Moroi at least are not willing to allow dhampirs to take the full brunt of protection from Strigoi. I would have liked…