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Friday, April 10, 2009

Monthly Kindle Book Budget: January

I thought some of you might be interested in my Kindle book budget (or purchase list, since budget doesn't really fit) each month. These are the titles and prices for those I purchased last month. I do share a Kindle account with my husband and parents, so sometimes their purchases are reflected in the mix (and purchases outside of the Kindle are ignored, as I don't seem to be able to resist those $3 hardbacks when they have megasales down at Borders now and then, especially when they fill in series that I am reading on the Kindle and the Kindle price for the same book is often in the $6 to $10 range). Since I've started this late in the year, I'll start with January thru March, with a total and average per book each month and for the first quarter/year-to-date.

January

The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
By: Lee Strobel
$3.75
The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
By: Lee Strobel
$3.75
Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, A
By: James, Shapiro
$4.95
Halley's Bible Handbook with the New International Version
By: Henry H. Halley
$9.99
The Scourge of God
By: William Dietrich
$3.33
One Last Breath
By: Stephen Booth
$1.77
Death Dines at 8:30
By: Nick DiChario, Claudia Bishop
$1.74
Dark Celebration: A Carpathian Reunion
By: Christine Feehan
$1.60
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
By: John M. Barry
$3.83
The Book of the Dead
By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
$3.71
Down by the River (Grace Valley, Book 3)
By: Robyn Carr
$2.16
The Night Before Halloween (Monster Classics)
By: Sondi Miller
$0.80
Mother Ghoul's Curses and Rhymes (Monster Classics)
By: Sondi Miller
$0.80
The Protector's War
By: S. M. Stirling
$3.67
A Meeting at Corvallis
By: S.M. Stirling
$2.40
Mighty Hammer Down (Legend of Reason Series)
By: David J. Guyton
$1.59
The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life
By: Lorie Marrero
$9.99
Friends for Life
By: Carol Smith
$1.00
The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel
By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
$1.67
Void Moon
By: Michael Connelly
$1.00
When Women Were Warriors Book I
By: Catherine M. Wilson
$0.99
The Difference Between Life and Death: Outliving the Flu Pandemic of 2009
By: Dennis Miner
$4.00
Locked Rooms
By: Laurie R. King
$1.40
The Skies of Pern
By: Anne Mccaffrey
$3.00
Deader the Better, The
By: G.M. Ford
$1.64
Hey Diddle Diddle, the Corpse and the Fiddle
By: Fran Rizer
$2.46
Easy as 1-2-3
By: Phillip Depoy
$1.93
A Death at the North Pole
By: Joel M. Andre
$0.99
Boys of Summer (anthology)
By: Julie Elizabeth Leto
$1.00
To Live & Die in Dixie
By: Kathy Hogan Trocheck
$1.57
Blood of Eden
By: Edward Morris
$0.00
Waiting for the World to End
By: Nicole Hunter
$0.99
The DorĂ© Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete 
By: Paul Gustave Doré
$0.00
Excursions
By: Henry David, 1817-1862 Thoreau
$0.00
Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David, 1817-1862 Thoreau
$0.00
The Hunting of the Snark
By: Lewis, 1832-1898 Carroll
$0.00
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
By: Arnold, 1867-1931 Bennett
$0.00
The Biography of a Grizzly
By: Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 Seton
$0.00
Stickeen
By: John, 1838-1914 Muir
$0.00
The People of the Mist
By: H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925 Haggard
$0.00
The Pink Fairy Book
By: Andrew, 1844-1912 Lang
$0.00
Art of Money Getting
By: P. T., 1810-1891 Barnum
$0.00
Robin Hood
By: J. Walker (Joseph Walker), 1874-1960 McSpadden
$0.00
King of the Khyber Rifles
By: Talbot, 1879-1940 Mundy
$0.00
The Last American
By: John Ames, 1845-1918 Mitchell
$0.00
The New Jerusalem
By: G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Chesterton
$0.00
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volume 1
By: Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Grant
$0.00
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volume 2
By: Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Grant
$0.00
The Ball and the Cross
By: G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Chesterton
$0.00
All Things Considered
By: G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Chesterton
$0.00
Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
By: Ignatius, 1831-1901 Donnelly
$0.00
Orthodoxy
By: G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Chesterton
$0.00
The Club of Queer Trades
By: G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Chesterton
$0.00
Tremendous Trifles
By: G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Chesterton
$0.00
Tales of the Jazz Age
By: F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Fitzgerald
$0.00
The Art of War
By: 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi
$0.00
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
By: H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891 Blavatsky
$0.00
My Summer in a Garden
By: Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Warner
$0.00
In the Heart of the Rockies
By: G. A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902 Henty
$0.00

For the month, that's 59 books, $83.47 in total, for $1.41 per book, but there were a number of public domain books that we downloaded in January, which we could have found free elsewhere. Two books consumed nearly 1/4 of the total amount spent, at $9.99 each (one of which is no longer available), while the others were all under $5, almost all of which are now over $5 and including at least two that now are selling for $9.99.

WOW! Looking at this list, it's no wonder I seem to have too many books in my TBR list on the Kindle. Excuse me while I go read .... continued tomorrow!