Cue the Twilight Zone Music

July 21, 2014 Michelle Griep

Why are there still wood ticks out? I thought they were rampant in spring. My calendar says it's summer. Clearly the little blood suckers are not able to keep track of time. Other than that, my camping extravaganza in the north woods this past weekend was great. Here are a few pix to prove it. . .

The newlyweds, Ryan & Callie, my hubby Mark & I, and that furry little wiener dog is King Arthur.

Princess Ada Clare, Queen of the North Woods

So on the drive home, the conversation turned to publishing. One of my friends had the brilliant idea of creating something like Netflix but for books. We thought it could be viable, especially for ebooks, but the cost of mailing out paperbacks could make the service a little pricey. Maybe it wouldn't work after all.

When I got home and plugged my life back into cyberspace, lo and behold, but what to my wondering eyes did appear? Nope. Not a fat man in a red suit or a haloed angel.

The big news is that Amazon just launched Kindle Unlimited, an eBook subscription service that's like Netflix but for books (just like we'd been talking about in the car). It runs around $10 a month for an unlimited access to their full library of over 600,000 titles, but you can try a trial run for 30 days for free. Best of all, you don't need to own a Kindle to partake of the reading feast. It works for any electronic device, even a laptop. Plus they've got audiobooks as well.

Sounds rather intriguing, eh? Might be worth checking it out for a month for free.