Today's Deals

Be sure to grab today's free Android App, Splashtop Remote Desktop, which you can use with your Kindle Fire, Android phone or tablet to access your home (or work) computer remotely (it's compatible with all my devices and it looks like it costs $4.99 or $9.99 in the Android Market. I've seen several comments on the nook boards (where the app is on sale for $2.99) about how useful it is on the nookColor or nookTablet. The part that runs on your computer is free (you do have to leave the computer running, of course). I haven't tried this company's app, but have another, similar one installed on mine and it's come in handy now and then, when I needed some information that was on the PC at home. You will want to read some of the reviews about encryption (or the lack, thereof) and be a bit careful using it on public wifi hotspots. And, speaking of the nook tablets, B&N is also having a 99 cent sale on Electronic Arts game apps, similar the one Amazon had, earlier. They even have two games I don't see at Amazon, Spider Jack and Office Gamebox. While snooping around, I did find a cute app for your younger kids: Dress the Cat, which is 99 cents from Amazon or B&N.

If you missed yesterday's deal on a 16GB micro SDHC card, you can get the same card (but "Factory Recertified") from DailySteals today for $7.99 (and no shipping). There isn't an adapter with it, but if you already have one or don't need it, the price is more than cheap enough to take a chance on one (which seems to be the limit allowed). There are lots of fakes out there with SD and SDHC card, but you do get a 90 day warranty (although I suspect that's from SanDisk, not Daily Steals - their first line of return is via the manufacturer, but they do seem to stand behind the order after that). I have bought a few (small) things from them and they have all arrived, for what that's worth.

For those using EPUB, there are some new 25% off coupon codes at Kobo: jan6us25 and the usual country code variants (see sidebar at right).

ETA: For those in the UK, it's the last day for the 12 Days of Kindle sale. All the days sale books are available, but only thru the end of today (UK time).

Additional formats on these free books are now available:

• ETF Trading and Investing Strategies (K/N)
• The Secret Holocaust Diaries (K/N/E)
• The Pawn (K/N/I/E)

Today is the last day to take advantage of these KSO deals:

• Save $5 at Amazon

Deadly Currents ($0.99), the first of the RM Outdoor Adventures cozy mysteries by Beth Groundwater, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
The Arkansas River, heart and soul of Salida, Colorado, fuels the small town’s economy and thrums in the blood of river ranger Mandy Tanner. When a whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. Turns out, it wasn’t the rapids that killed him—he was murdered. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals, who cheated on his wife, refused to support his kayak-obsessed son, and infuriated environmentalists.

Mandy’s world is upended again when tragedy strikes closer to home. Suspicious that the most recent death is connected to Tom King’s murder, Mandy goes on an emotionally turbulent quest for the truth—and ends up in dangerous waters.

Quantum ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Manjit Kumar, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (their are two US editions at $13.49 and $15.37, a pre-order for 2020!).

Book Description
Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you weren’t shocked by quantum theory, you didn’t really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of this fundamental scientific revolution, focusing on the central conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science. This revelatory book takes a close look at the golden age of physics, the brilliant young minds at its core—and how an idea ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century.

To Defy a King ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), the fourth and latest title in the William Marshal series by Elizabeth Chadwick, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Privileged daughter of William Marshal, Mahelt marries Hugh Bigod, heir to the earldom of Norfolk. But when King John sets out to subdue the Bigods, Mahelt faces the worst alone, knowing neither she, nor her marriage, are likely to survive. A story of emotional power set against the road to Magna Carta and the fight to bring a tyrant king to heel, To Defy a King is Elizabeth Chadwick at her best.

Today's backlist/indie free books on Kindle (not likely to be free for long):

• Six Against The Stars: Book 1 (The Six Against The Stars duology), by Stephen Hunt
• On My Lady's Honor (All for one, and one for all), by Kate Silver
• J.R. Rain's Whodunits, three novels by J.R. Rain, Gemma Halliday and Aiden James
• The Lion and the Lark, by Doreen Owens Malek
• Three on a Light, by Victor Gischler
• Rune Logic, by Leslie Wooddavis
• The Eagle and the Sword (The Perilous Order of Camelot), by A. A. Attanasio
• An Early Ford Mustang, by Eric James Stone
• His Name In Lights, by Patty Jansen
• The Lake Effect, by Leigh Michaels
• Ghost Stories, by J.R. Rain, et al.
• RESURRECTION, by Ken McClure
• SECTOR C, by Phoenix Sullivan
• Four books by Billie Sue Mosiman
• Seven books from Red Hot Publishing
• Two free reads from Sam Cheever (DRM-free PDF)

Special thanks to ATDrake at Mobileread, whose eagle eyes have managed to spot most of these backlist authors.