What have you pre-ordered?

'Fess up and share with the rest of us :o)
What hasn't been released yet that you just can't wait to get your grubby little hands on?

I'll start off with Harry Potter #7.

I will be the second to say that I have pre-ordered

Harry Potter #7 :)

Hmm... I preordered Harry Potter 7. ;)

nothing. I haven't pre-ordered any book. In fact apart from one or two amazon books which I had a free code for, I havent ordered any book at all. I'll wait till I find a copy.

There's plenty more fish in the sea.

I recently preordered the Sagan Diary, The Last Colony, and You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop, all by John Scalzi.

I've preordered a couple of HP books, but not the 7th one yet. I have also preordered a Diana Gabaldon book and a couple of Elizabeth George books. I don't really know why. It's not like there was a run on any of them. It's that book addiction issue coming out, I guess.

As of now, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I'm very tempted to also preorder White Night, but I want it right then and there. Is it only for HP that Amazon will have a preorder item to us on release day?

I preordered Quicksilver. It took almost 24 months for it to arrive! Before that I preordered Cryptonomicon...
I've also preordered most of Grimwoods' books, and some of Pratchetts, if I remember correctly.
:-)

I don't often pre-order, but Lindsey Davis's Saturnalia (which isn't touchstoning yet) arrived last weekend as the result of a pre-order made in August, I think. I tend to pre-order Tom Holt books too.

I don't pre-order. I just don't. I like to handle my books before I buy them... and maybe sniff them a little. LOL
Besides, we are planning to attend a midnight release party for Harry 7, like we did for Harry 6. It was a good fun!

I usually don't preorder - this is the first time in years - but You're Not Fooling Anyone is a short run (only 500 books) and I'm not sure Sagan Diary will be available in my local stores (they don't have the best selection ever). And I figured I'd throw in Last Colony, why not, although I might get impatient, since it comes out before the Amazon order will be sent...

I have lots of pre-releases on my amazon wishlist, including Harry Potter 7, but haven't actually ordered anything...yet.

Like Blue I pre-order stuff because I'm not likely to find it anywhere close to release date where live, and because, well - books by some authors are auto-buy. And so if I know they're soon to ber released it's easier to preorder ;-)

THe only titles I have ever pre-ordered are the Harry Potter titles, beginning with, perhaps number 5 (maybe it was book 4). We discovered HP the Christmas of the year that book 3 was out. I actually picked up the hard copies at a great discount. Then never got arond to deciding which daughter to give them to. One day Molly the younger daughter walks in, sees me reading book one, aks me about it, having just heard about the stories. Molly takes over book one, devours it, raves about it - and Molly was NOT a reader/book-lover!

Next thing you know the Dickablay clan has 3 sets of the 1st circulating through the family so we can all be reading them.

And the way non-book lovers (where should the hyphens go?) and "non-readers" have found themselves absorbed in books & reading with and thru the Potter books is the real magic of Harry and JKR

Yep, me too - Harry Potter.

Not sure how, but the above message posted twice. Sorry!

Edited to remove duplicate post.

14 cad_lib

How many of those non-readers and non-book-lovers now read things besides HP?

#17 - Even if it is only 1% of them, that is a victory, IMHO. It means there are hundreds of thousands of new book lovers. Hopefully it's even more than that.

I totally understand this if you're in an area that isn't well served by a big bookstore. But otherwise, when I have pre-ordered stuff, it always arrives AFTER the release date, and I could have just swung by the store.

When people at the bookstore ask if I want to pre-order something like Harry Potter 7, I give them an innocent look and say "Do you think they're going to be hard to find? A shortage?"

There will be MASSIVE PYRAMIDS of Harry Potter books in every store on the planet on the day, lol......

To reiterate, if you can't get out, or if you're far from the stores, I get it. But I like going to the store.....

#19 Actually... When people at the bookstore ask if I want to pre-order something like Harry Potter 7, I give them an innocent look and say "Do you think they're going to be hard to find? A shortage?"

The answer... for the little bookshop I visit for the midnight party... is yes. For the previous two Harry Potter books, everyone was limited to a single copy. I purchased that, read it, and then, a second copy arrived which I have donated to the local hospital each of the past two times. They can't get their hands on enough of them.

I pre-order so that if I decide not to go to the event, for any reason, the book will be in my hands by 10AM Saturday morning.

I knew it, a hearwarming pre-order story that has both a charming independent bookstore and sick kids in it.

Next up, the Boy in the Plastic Bubble writes in to tell about how the precipitous incline in the parking lot of his local bookseller makes his venturing out to pick up a copy potentially fatal.

*goes to pre-order, so that FedEx can burn a bunch of fossil fuels and warm the planet so that I can have my copy of Harry Potter early*

Ack! What's the answer! A true moral and ethical dilemma! The mind reels!

:)

*snork* Atomic, very funny. ;o)

I do understand the small books store issue, JPB. Well... at least, I would, if there were actually any small book stores left in my part of the country. :o( I have a choice of heading to Borders or Barnes & Noble. When my kids were younger we went to realsea parties at both Borders and Media Play on the morning of the release, because they were close to each other, and both had fun activities scheduled. We were living in another part of the US in those days. Here it's just the 'big two.' As Barnes & Noble is a smidge closer, and I have a membership, that's where we'll go, just like we did back in July of 2005. I'm sure we'll have just as much fun this time.

#21

You mean, instead of having a single truck delivering multiple copies of the book to households, saving on energy, since the books are shipped to regional centers anyway, for either bookstore purchase or at home delivery, and the FexEd planes fly anyway, either partially or fully loaded, you'd rather have everyone drive in their own cars to pick up a copy, using a net total of far more energy than they would if they ordered the book to be delivered.

Hmm...

;)

I know! There are no easy answers here!

Save the planet! Boycott Harry Potter!

#24

I know! There are no easy answers here!

Tell JKR to allow her book to be sold in online editions so we don't chop down so many trees for it. How many trees were lost for each volume in this series? ;)

And the boy in the bubble you know must be a real wimp. The bubble boy I know would roll in his bubble, down the hill, and not care at all. He'd proudly roll in, like a hampster in his little habitat ball, and ask for the book, have it put into a special pouch on the side of his bubble (like a kangaroo has), and wheel himself out of the bookstore, book rolling along with him.

But seriously, I think the only easy answer is this: Let people get the book in whatever way pleases them, and leave them well enough alone.

And start fighting for environmental change at a level that will help: keep refusing to elect people who don't get the level of problem we have, and will start to do something about it.

I shake my head at the Bush-voters who sit and recycle.... Oh well, that's another topic for another forum.

I resolutely refuse to let you turn into a serious topic, lol!

I think that J.K. Rowling should walk to all the homes that want to know the end of the story, and just tell them.

Or, even better, telephone game it across the world!

I know the end of Harry Potter, my neighbor just told me!

It goes like this ***WARNING LAST HARRY POTTER BOOK SPOILERS, I'M PRETTY SURE********:

Half pointed bang chickens uprise to cobblepot. Then, after milky fern seed have thirty three manglings, all the wrong skybeans flip over potato! Harry hits niblets through interwibble for the beelongs and races to my aunt's laundry list to elevate his nose.

Then, all the morning pens flow stars into charred hedgehogs.
Mental thong-tags wobble and prophesy, gleaming bellbottoms into the deep bottoms of cauliflower.

In a final startling twist, many yogurt hiccup.

#26 - I kind of wish I'd been drinking heavily before I read this. Or, just maybe, smoking something I haven't smoked in decades...
;o)

#25 - Where can I get myself a bubble boy like that?

Copious hedgehogs moan furiously!

Crack-baby cable installers sort pink poppies into translucent bins, as overhanging seeds scream beautifully into forgotten pillows!

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But pshaw... these aren't the ending to Harry Potter we're writing, Atomic.

We're just plagarizing the style of lyrics from the old prog band Yes.

* angelic smile *

*Rolls my eyes, gets a headache when Yes is mentioned, wonders how the Green Dragon will end up... being an pink elephant?*

Hey, I'm just telling you what my neighbor told me.
I forgot to mention that my neighbor is Jon Anderson.

Lotta Andersons up here in Minnesota.

Lotta Andersons up here in Minnesota

I remember her!! Do you know Lotta Anderson too? I'm glad to hear she stayed in Minnesota, but I feel the schoolmaster inside me needing to point out that you did forget your apostrophe before the "s" in her last name.

Actually, I have a love/hate relationship with Yes. I love love love their musicianship, and the songs themselves (the music).

But... the lyrics - I look at them, and turn beet red.

OH!!!

UMM...........

HEY! I just pre-ordered the San Francisco Chronicle where it will be delivered to my door daily.

* puts feet up on desk, in a proud display of American capitalistic wanton behavior *

I order/pre-order books and have them shipped to me all the time. I love bookstores, but there is no local bookstore where I live and it's at least an hour drive to the nearest Borders, Books-A-Million, or Barnes and Noble.

#26!!! Man, you just TOTALLY RUINED IT FOR ME! Now there's no point in reading it, is there?

Oh, sorry, that should read "Disembodied Brain, you just ruined it for me..."

>I remember her!! Do you know Lotta Anderson too?

WAIT a minute. I thought her name was Lena?

Lotta Lena? What kind of name is that? ;o)

Lotta was her nickname. There was a whole lotta Lena.....;)

Ole and Lena, doncha know.

¡Olé!

Hablo espanol un poco solamente.

Er... Je parle francais. Mais je peux dire "Yo como mi cigarro" en espagnole.

Que Pasa, Mufasa?

Thanks for clearing that up, dressage. :)

So, just curious.. I preordered HP 7 and the store gave me a choice of stickers: "Trust Snape" or "Snape is a Very Bad Man." It was a Borders. Did anyone else's local Borders/bookstore do this?

I just pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows last week through my library. We're having a release party for the books.

And the lady who heads the party warned me...

"Justin, if you go on to spoiler sites and tell everyone what happens, I WILL kill you." XD

Hee hee. Isn't it nice to know they trust you so much, Justin?
;o)

*shifty* :p

I thought it was Lonnie Anderson. Didn't she marry Burt Reynolds or something?

I think she did marry Burt Reynolds but I doubt they're still together. Remember the movie Stroker Ace? They were in that together.

Yesterday I pre-ordered my first book ever, but it wasn't Harry Potter (still haven't decided what I'm doing on that yet). I pre-ordered Dead Girls' Dance which is the next Morganville Vampires book by Rachel Caine.

When Lonnie Anderson left Burt Reynolds, was that a Reynolds wrap?

*running and hiding before the bottles fly*

#48 When Lonnie Anderson left Burt Reynolds, was that a Reynolds wrap?

BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, that’s quite funny :D

Burt, burt, burt
She put him in a world of hurt
Her big blonde hair was flyin'
and she left old Burt a cryin'
'cause she tired of his 'stache
and she took a pile of cash
Burt burt burt
She put him in a world of hurt

I'm just grateful I'm not the only one who knows who Lonnie Anderson is!

The one thing I remember about her is that one day I walked into my kid brother's bedroom to find a poster of her on the wall showing lots of cleavage. That told me he wasn't a kid anymore.

Yes, she was almost as influential as Farrah Fawcett.

See, it's a Reynolds RAP, see. That's what that was. :)

WKRP in Cincinnati. Loved that show. I never thought she came off as a typical Hollywood dumb blond.

Speaking of hot women of the 70s/80s, "Bosom Buddies" comes out on DVD March 13th... ::fleeeees::