Pre-order deal: Attack on Titan Volume #23 for $6 in print

Volume #23 of the “Attack on Titan” manga is scheduled to be released in print (paperback), in English, on December 19, in 2017 and as of the time of writing, Amazon has it on a pre-order deal for just $6.04. This is the lowest price of all the printed volumes out now!

NOTE: on the same listing, they have an e-book version, however, the e-book version is actually pointing to Chapter #23 (47 pages), not Volume #23. Volumes are a group of chapters. Volume #23 is the latest story. Chapter #23 is very early in the story. Each volume has 4-5 chapters typically. That’s why you can read the e-book now (because it’s an old chapter) but the printed version is a December 2017 pre-order.

Now if you want to make a bigger Titan purchase (pun intended?), digital or print, and you can wait, when Season 3 of the anime gets an air date and get closer (sometime in 2018), there should be deals. For example, back when season 2 was coming out, they had all the Volumes in e-book format on sale for 5 each.

August 29, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With:

Attack On Titan Colossal Edition #2 for $30.58 w/free S&H

If you are getting on-board the “Attack On Titan” anime and manga hype train, with Season 3 officially scheduled to come out at some point in 2018, and you like reading big books, there is a sale on the Second “Colossal Edition” of Attack On Titan. This is print, not digital, in paperback, currently on sale for the very specific price of $30.58 with free shipping by Amazon actual.

The “Colossal” editions are groups of five volumes each. Colossal #1 features Volumes #1 through #5. This one (Colossal #2) features Volumes #6 to #10, Colossal #3 is Volumes #11 through #15, and so forth. They are not joking with the names ~ they are over 900 pages each! They are printed on 7 x 10.5 inch paper! Shipping weight is over 4.5 lbs.

GETTING STARTED WITH ATTACK ON TITAN MANGA

If you watched the anime show (Season 1 is on Netflix; both seasons are Yahoo View which you can watch for FREE with Ads, and without the need to create an account), or are just curious, here are the steps to get started with it ~ to see if this is something you’d like:

  1. The Sampler – this is Chapter #1 of the series, FREE to buy on Kindle, Comixology and elsewhere
  2. If you liked what you saw, or want to read more to decide, then you can read Volume #1 (first four chapters) for FREE if
    • you are a Prime member, and want to use one of your ten Prime Reading slots on it
    • you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber and want to borrow it for free
  3. next step is to start a Comixology free trial ~ the first three Volumes can be read for FREE with a “Comixology Unlimited” subscription. Volumes #4 and later are not included in “Unlimited” [not so Unlimited after all]

After this point, if you want to read Volume #4 and later, you have to buy each manga chapter or Volume or Colossal individually, or subscribe to a manga/anime service, or use a legitimate manga reading website that is ad-sponsored.

Since the Colossal #2 mentioned above begins with Volume #6, you’d only need to find/buy Volumes #4 and #5, and then read the Colossal #2 which is on sale.

August 15, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

T-Mobile Tuesday Freebies for 8/8/17 include 1-Day Redbox Rental and 1-Year Digital Magazine Sub

It is a mix of freebies and coupons at the T-Mobile Tuesdays for August 8, in 2017, as the cellular provider rewards are starting to heat up, with both Verizon and AT&T rebooting their rewards programs to counter the overwhelming success of T-Mobile Tuesdays.

For August 8 in 2017, the two freebies are a 1-day Redbox rental (your choice of game, DVD or BluRay), along with a 1-Year digital subscription of Men’s Health or Women’s Health. Since these offers are per line, if you have more than one line, you can get both magazines and multiple 1-day rentals. The 1-day rentals cannot be stacked on the same rental, Redbox only offers coupons on the first day.

Of the two coupons, one is potentially interesting (but price-check to be sure), you get 25% off Mophie at T-Mobile’s website or brick and mortar stores. The other coupon is utter meh, a $25 “credit” to Restaurant.com.

August 5, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Free University of Chicago eBook for August 2017 [with DRM]

If you don’t hate DRM in ebooks and you don’t object to using Adobe’s Digital Editions DRM software and licensing technique, August 2017 brings us a new e-book freebie from the University of Chicago (the publisher). Their latest freebie is the 220-page e-book “Wallis’s War: A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue” by Kate Auspitz, published in 2015.

You have to enter your email address to get the freebie. Then you receive an email with a BiblioVault download link. You follow that, and then you can either download it or read it online. Because of the DRM-ness of it, either option requires some kind of a login/authentication.

I’m sure I’m not saying anything groundbreaking here in that I hate DRM, especially the way Adobe does it. It is invasive and inconvenient and unnecessary. Its most practical effect is to irritate legit readers.

August 2, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

Kindle First choices for August 2017 are here

It’s that time again, a new month is born (August 2017), and that means, among many other things, that a new selection of ebooks are available as part of Amazon’s Kindle First program, another one of the many Prime Benefits.

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August 1, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , , ,

Free until July 19: Kushiel’s Dart fantasy e-book

If you like free, you have until Wednesday night on July 19 in 2017 to grab a DRM-free copy of Jacqueline Carey’s epic fantasy book, “Kushiel’s Dart” through the Tor eBook Club. All you have to do is give them your email to download it.

You can download it in DRM-free ePUB and MOBI. You can download one or both formats. MOBI is for Kindles, ePUB for everything else. This is book #1 in a series, it is not a stand-alone story, so keep that in mind if you prefer stand-alone books. You are definitely getting your money’s worth, it is over 900 pages long 🙂

It is free and you have nothing to lose by getting it, but if you want to read reviews first, it has over 760 of them at amazon.com where it averages 4.3 out of 5.

I haven’t read this yet, so I know nothing (Jon Snow) about it.

July 18, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

How to get a discount on an HBO Now Subscription

For cordcutters, HBO has a rather generous 30-day free trial, but once they hook you in, then their monthly fee is $15, which for some may be too much, especially if you don’t watch every show and high profile movie they offer there. So, is there a way to get a discount for that?

The answer is YES, but it is an indirect way of getting a discount. You sign-up and pay for your subscription through GooglePLAY. Why GooglePLAY? Because they allow you to pay for monthly subscriptions with your gift card balance. You don’t have to pay with a credit card or debit card.

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July 13, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , , ,

Killjoys Season 2 BluRay with Digital HD for $17

“Killjoys” is an underrated and underappreciated space science-fiction TV series that is airing on Syfy and Canada’ SPACE channel. It has its own unique style and personality, which may not be for some people, HOWEVER, this has a lot of in-world mythology and world-building, and there is an underlying story underneath it all, so you are not just watching episodic television, it has an overarching arc.

The TV show is currently not available at any of the major streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Prime), which makes this sale even better, because for under $17, you get the BluRay sett with Digital HD (Ultraviolet, through NBCUcodes) at amazon.com. This is a limited time sale, with up to three sets per customer during the sale.

Meanwhile Season 1 goes for just under $21, likewise in a BluRay set with Digital HD.

There’s also a music discovery component to the show as they play a lot of new and fresh music throughout the episodes!

July 4, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

GooglePLAY offer: 20% off first three months of Showtime

Showtime is the home of the new Twin Peaks. If you want to climb aboard the Agent Cooper hype train, the Google PLAY store is running a promotion for Showtime, you get 20% off the monthly subscription fee for the first three months of your subscription. This is for subscriptions through the Showtime app, downloaded from Google Play. Once subscribed, you can use your Showtime credentials to login from other devices and systems.

I haven’t done this offer, so I don’t know how it goes from there. There’s only so much TV I can watch 🙂

July 2, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Samsung Book Deals choices for July 2017 are up

If you have Samsung hardware device that is participating in their lesser known “Book Deals” program (Samsung it survived the regular purge of Samsung’s never-ending stream of projects), and if you have installed the Kindle app from the actual Samsung app store (it has S-Pen support after all), then every month, either for the lifetime of your device or for a preset number of months, you can receive a free ebook every month from a choice of four.

Almost all these books are part of Kindle Unlimited, so they have lots and lots of reviews, which can help you device which one to get or which ones to avoid. This unlike Kindle First which offers pre-release ebooks, so you have to wait for a few days before they build up a review profile.

The choices for July 2017 are:

  • “Crow Hollow” by Michael Wallace
  • “The Gift” by Dave Donovan (alien invasion type)
  • “What doesn’t kill her” by Max Allan Collins
  • “Heart of a Highland Warrior” by Anita Clenney (romance)

Happy reading 🙂 I am leaning towards the “The Gift” because one can never read enough alien invasion stories 🙂

One more thing, once you get your freebie, a lot of these ebooks have an audiobook co-promotion. You can add the audiobook for $2 or so.

July 1, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

99c Fantasy eBook: “Half a King” by Joe Abercombie

If you like Norse and medieval-y type of fantasy books, Book #1 of the “Shattered Sea” trilogy by Joe Abercrombie is on sale for a limited time for 99c in the Amazon Kindle ebook format. All three books have “Half” in their title. Book #1 is “Half a Sea”. This is a completed trilogy, so you don’t have to wait for “Winds” 🙂

Once you buy the ebook, you have an option to buy the Audible audiobook for $7.49, so even if you prefer the audiobook, it is cheaper to buy the e-book first, and then add the audiobook. The crazy way Audible works 🙂 This is a 385 pager from Random House. So you are getting 3.85 pages per penny 🙂

It averages 4.2 out of 5 based on 700+ customer reviews. I haven’t read it but I just bought it, to add to my never-ending “To Read” list!

July 1, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Kindle First Choices for July 2017 are up, pick 1 out of 6 as usual

It’s a new month, July 2017 is here! We are exactly at the half-way point towards New Year 2018! That’s right folks, time flies! This means, among many other things, a new selection of pre-release e-books have been loaded at the Kindle First page. As usual, Prime members get one FREE e-book from the choice of six, and you can read it right now.

All six e-books will be released August 1st, so if you like more than one, you can get them then. Almost all of these will be part of Kindle Unlimited, so if you are part of that program, you can read them for free when they get there.

So without further ado, here are the six options, one of which is a “Kindle in Motion” format which includes all kinds of multimedia but can still be read with ereaders (obviously without the features that require a touchscreen):

  • “Kings of Broken Things” by Theodore Wheeler in Literary Fiction
  • “A Beautiful Poison” by Lydia Kang in Historical Fiction
  • “Little Boy Lost” by J.D. Trafford in Thrillers
  • “Secondborn (Secondborn Series Book 1)” by Amy A. Bartol in Scifi
  • “Mrs. Saint and the Defectives: A Novel” by Julie Lawson Timmer in Contemporary Fiction
  • “The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed” by Scott Parazynski, Susy Flory in Memoirs – this is a “Kindle in Motion” multimedia format

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T-Mobile Tuesdays freebie for 4th of July is a Redbox Blu-Ray

A little bit on the light side are the 4th of July T-Mobile Tuesdays freebies, perhaps because of the holiday. There is really just one freebie, a 1-day Blu-Ray rental at Redbox. Everything else is a coupon, the usual Shell 25c off per gallon, 25% off at Papa Johns pizza, and the debut of a new offer, you pay $20 for a 1-year subscription of Ever Plus. You also get a free 3-month trial. Still a coupon, not a true freebie 🙂

June 30, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

June 27 T-Mobile Tuesday freebies headlined by Vudu store credit and e-cookbook

A more digital than physical theme is here for the Tuesday June 27 (2017) freebies at T-Mobile’s Tuesdays. The two actual freebies are digital, a Vudu movie rental, which in practice is a $5.50 store credit which you can use as you please (buy or rent, movies or TV shows), along with a free e-cookbook, but the ebooks offered through Tuesdays are not DRM-free, you have to use some stupid website that exists for promotional purchases. So you are stuck reading the books on the web or using that company’s apps. You can’t use your own ebook apps or your own e-readers. Needless to say, their technology is maybe 10% that of a Kindle.

The two other offers are coupons. Your pet gets $10 off at Pridebites with free shipping, and you don’t even get a B1G1, but rather a sad “Buy One, Get a Second One for 99c” Sundae at Baskin Robbins ~ just like previous weeks.

June 26, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

GooglePLAY: rent any movie for $1.50 [HD, No Ads]

If you are part of the Google PLAY digital ecosystem, when you peruse the Google PLAY store, you will find an offer that allows you to rent any movie in digital HD for $1.50. You have to manually add the offer to your Google PLAY account by clicking through it using a web browser or traversing the Play Store Android app.

The offer runs until July 8, 2017. If you don’t use it, it expires. You can use it for one movie, It will get discounted automatically, and you will see the discount before you pay for the rental. You can also verify that the offer is in your account by going at the “Account” part of your GooglePLAY and looking under “Rewards”:

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