Thanks to everybody for their recommendations! I took notes!
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The last time I checked with the Sumter Library, they didn't have the download available. However I'm in Canada now and strangely, our tiny corner library has free book download. Goodbye to lugging bags of books around. Yes, Judy, get an iPad ... They are so handy! I loooooove my iPad! :thumbup:

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading:

1. "Team of Rivals", by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It's about Lincoln and his combative cabinet.

2. "FDR", by Jean Edward Smith.

I was impressed by the amount of detailed information that was presented as these writers spent a lot of time researching their subjects.

IMHO - Not short reads but thoroughly engrossing to me.

Thanks for the info, Bare! I didn't know you were STILL in Canadia! (Sorry, my daughter calls it Canadia, and I 'caught' it from her. lol)

When you're in TV can you access your little library back home and download books? (I still belong to my little library back home, so I'm thinking ahead to my iPad... :laugh:)

Judy

I'm with you uujudy! I sure ain't gonna pick it up and read it if I KNOW it will make me cry! I'll never get over Old Yeller and wish I'd never seen it!!:cryin2:

Yes, Judy, sadly I must be in exile in Canadia for six months each year. I'd much rather be in TV. (Although I think it is at least 20 degrees cooler here).

Yes, when I'm in Florida I can still access my little library back in Ontario Canada, and download books. It's just like magic. I've spent a lifestime hauling bags of books on car trips, in airplanes, to the cottage, etc. I could never be without a choice of books. :read:

Now I can download five books at a time. If I find them uninteresting, I just return them to the library and download more. Easy peasy. Love it. :thumbup:

I'm a Pat Conroy fan
 

so I read South of Broad a few months ago. Loved it!!! Was still in a Conroy mood, so I'm reading Prince of Tides now on my Kindle. It's one of his older books, but I realized that I had never read it (saw the movie, but don't really remember a lot about the plot). Anyway, I am really enjoying this book. Love Conroy's way of writing and love the references to South Carolina - The Help is next. Thought maybe I'd read Water for Elephants to compare with the movie. I love my Kindle - many reasons, but most important to me, there's no eye strain because the screen isn't backlit, so it's easier on my older eyes.

The Villages library does not have downloadable books. I asked (even though I do not have an Ereader).

Z

I am working on several authors. I am trying to finish all of the Robert B. Parker books. I have a few of the Spencer series to go. I am also working through the Vince Flynn series, the different Clive Cussler series and the Jack Higgins series. I also like all of the James Patterson series and the Michael Connelly series.

Back a long tine ago, one of the TOTV patrons posted this link:

http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp

If the author has a series with the same character you will be able to get a list of the books by that author in the series. It is very useful if the books follow one another. I use this to order books from the library. I keep the list in a file and check off the ones I have read. But be careful because the list will grow if the author puts out another book in the same series. Clive Cussler is one to watch for that.

Z

And Sky Guy recommended it for a "birthday book." sigh
Nope. Ain't gonna happen.

That clinches it! Gotta get an iPad/E-reader/internet tablet/whatchamacallit! My little library in Utah has many, many books available to download. :read:
Magic indeed!

And Bare, 20 degrees cooler than Florida sounds very nice right about now.

BeeGee what does this mean? I thought backlit meant that I could read it in bed? Wouldn't that be a good thing? Is backlit harder to see?

I have a fourteen hour flight from Detroit to Korea tomorrow, with a continuing two hours to Taiwan. I just starting the fifth Women's Murder Club mystery (The Fifth Horsemen) by James Patterson (actually these are written "over his name" by assistant writers, which bothers me greatly, but the series is quite good). And I bought a second book, the latest of John Sandford's Lucas Davenport series, Buried Prey. Both are on my SONY E-Reader, which I absolutely love. Between these page turners (or is it page clickers on an ebook?) and the great entertainment system on Delta's Boeing 777 Business Class, I'll be well entertained tomorrow.

Plus the free business class wine is pretty good too . . . .

My iPad has reader's choices. One choice is for reading in bed at night .... I'd assume it is backlit, it has a black screen with bright letters, so you don't need to have a reading light on. I love it. And there is another type of screen for daytime reading. And the iPad also has a choice of the size of print.