Have any of you found Kindle unlimited worth it for science fiction?
Have any of you found Kindle unlimited worth it for science fiction?
In the last few months I've read:
- Project Hail Mary, Weir
- Fall, Stephenson
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Gaiman
- The Ultimate Earth, Williamson
- The first four Discworld books, Pratchett
- Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge, Resnick
- A Memory Called Empire, Martine
- A Desolation Called Peace, Martine
- The first five Murderbot Diaries books, Wells
- The Imperial Radch trilogy, Leckie
- Annihilation, Vandermeer
- The Kingston Cycle trilogy, Polk
For comparison, I think I read two or three books last year. It's starting to be a non-trivial amount of money, even though they've all been the ebook versions, which are generally a little cheaper. Has anyone who reads a lot of SF found Kindle Unlimited to be worth the price?
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The one downside to the library option that everyone is suggesting as someone who has been subscribed for a while is that if the book is popular, you only get it for a few weeks at a time.
I tend to read just a few pages at a time before bed, and I found myself struggling to finish books on time. Or a book I wanted became available during a week when I really wasn’t in the mood to read.
If it takes you more than two weeks to read a book, it might not be a good option for you. Though it is free to try.
Thanks! It did occur to me that KU is like a library, do maybe I should check mine. I'm in Los Angeles county, so I looked at the LA county library page. They have a lot of good titles, but everything in interested in reading at the moment has a long wait list. I'm not sure if there are better library options available to me.
I usually just look for what’s available now and start reading. Found a few good titles unexpectedly that way.
I did that for a while decades ago, and ended up reading a lot of stuff I thought was pretty crappy. Then I became friends with a coworker who was also a reviewer for Locus Magazine, and he started helping me pick his to read. The difference in my reading enjoyment was exponential. So now I'm more particularly, and pay a lot of attention to things like Hugo and Nebula award nominees.
Oh our library in Seattle has a service like that! You can list books you like, and the librarians will provide a human-picked list of suggestions.
Oh, that's a nice service as long as the people know their stuff more than "Well this is the same genre..."
From what I’ve heard, they’re very good. They even write a short description of why they selected each book.
Just wanting to echo the suggestion for linking the kindle to the library. It took a while but basically I just did a massive number of books I was partially interested in (>25) and got on the waitlist. If you then don't have time you can always defer and set the number of days to defer by (e.g. just a couple) but after only a month or so of reading new books I've had constant opportunities to read big name books over the year. There is also sometimes a special "skip the line" copy which can give you a bonus week reading early!
Okay, thanks
Thanks for mentioning this - I have a similar reading style to you and have recently been considering KU, so this is really helpful!