Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Lost Metal is definitely Cosmere Heavy... it has connections to Emperor's Soul (that's why it's placed near), and the unpublished Aether of Night book/series, and Stormlight Archive stuffs, and and and... Lost Metal was when I really started to feel like you needed to read the Cosmere in publication order, regardless of what sub-series you're reading...

And Sunlit Man has spoilers for Wind & Truth, despite coming out before Wind & Truth...

Lost Metal's the one Sanderson said "from here on out, the gloves are off" as far as cosmere connections are concerned...

Hmmm... I might post the Cosmere idea in the invite thread, and see who bites...

I'll give it a few days though... don't want to scare people with two big series at once... see what Dune stirs up...

Fall is Calling!

Sep 1, 2025 Overgrowth by Mira Grant
Sep 2, 2025 Pale Demon (Hollows #9) by Kim Harrison
Sep 3, 2025 Archangel's Heart (Guild Hunter #9) by Nalini Singh
Sep 3, 2025 House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City #3) by Sarah J. Maas
Sep 3, 2025 The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Sep 4, 2025 The League of Unusual Denizens (Circles in Hell #8) by Mark Cain
Sep 4, 2025 Noah the Red (Neverstone #3) by Ned Caratacus
Sep 5, 2025 Aftermarket Afterlife (InCryptid #13) by Seanan McGuire
Sep 6, 2025 The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle #2) by Peter V. Brett
Sep 7, 2025 Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sep 7, 2025 The King of Plagues (Joe Ledger #3) by Jonathan Maberry
Sep 7, 2025 The Giver of Stars by Jojo Mojes
Sep 8, 2025 We Few (Empire of Man #4) by David Weber & John Ringo
Sep 8, 2025 Spirits, Diamonds, and a Drive-thru Daiquiri Stand (Pyper Rayne #4) by Deanna Chase
Sep 9, 2025 The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4) by Matt Dinniman
Sep 9, 2025 Generation Ship by Michael Mammay
Sep 10, 2025 The Heir of Caladan (Dune: Caladan #3) by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Sep 10, 2025 A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) by Becky Chambers
Sep 11, 2025 The Hod King (Books of Babel #3) by Josiah Bancroft
Sep 11, 2025 Water Sleeps (Black Company #8) by Glen Cook
Sep 11, 2025 Fortune's Ashes (Supernatural London: Firebrand #7) by Helen Harper
Sep 12, 2025 Peacemaker (Foreigner #15) by C.J. Cherryh
Sep 13, 2025 The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Sep 14, 2025 The Jaguar Path (The Songs of the Drowned #2) by Anna Stephens
Sep 14, 2025 Grim Tuesday (Keys to the Kingdom #2) by Garth Nix
Sep 15, 2025 Harmony Black (First Story: Harmony Black #1) by Heather Schaefer (as Craig)
Sep 15, 2025 Ruin and Rising (Grisha #3) by Leigh Bardugo
Sep 16, 2025 Bad Moon (Elizabeth Cage #4) by Jodi Taylor
Sep 16, 2025 Torch of Freedom (Honorverse: Wages of Sin #2) by David Weber & Eric Flint
Sep 16, 2025 The Air War (Shadows of the Apt #8) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sep 17, 2025 Babel by R. F. Kuang
Sep 18, 2025 The Antventure Begins (Chrysalis #1) by RinoZ
Sep 18, 2025 Stormsworn (Steamborn #9) by Eric R. Asher
Sep 18, 2025 Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater #4) by Christopher Ruocchio
Sep 19, 2025 Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen #3) by Steven Erikson
Sep 19, 2025 Betrayer (Horus Heresy #24) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Sep 20, 2025 Dragons of a Vanished Moon (Dragonlance: War of Lost Souls #3) by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Sep 21, 2025 BuyMort: Singularity (Shopocalypse Saga #7) by Joseph Phelps & Damien Hansen
Sep 22, 2025 The Truth (Discworld #25) by Terry Pratchett
Sep 22, 2025 Rando Splicer (Spiral Wars #6) by Joel Shepherd
Sep 22, 2025 Infinite Archive (Midsolar Murders #3) by Mur Lafferty
Sep 23, 2025 Second Hand Curses by Drew Hayes
Sep 24, 2025 Stank Delicious (Hard Luck Hank #5) by Steven Campbell
Sep 25, 2025 A Dance With Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire #5) by George R.R. Martin
Sep 25, 2025 All Dwarf'd Up (Dwarf Bounty Hunter #3) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle
Sep 26, 2025 Sightwitch (Witchlands #2.5) by Susan Dennard
Sep 27, 2025 He Who Fights With Monsters 11 (HWFWM #11) by Shirtaloon
Sep 28, 2025 The Queen of Sorrow (The Queens of Renthia #3) by Sarah Beth Durst
Sep 29, 2025 The Fractured Dark (Devoured Worlds #2) by Megan O'Keefe

In addition to these, the Oh-Crap-We-Bought-It aka Sales Club is reading some standalones for September:

5th: The Society of Unknowable Objects
15th: Elder Race
25th: Once Was Willem

Join us [here]

Does anyone use color e book readers like Kobo Color or Kindle colorsoft? Worth it? Any recommendations?

I majorly read hard copies or kindle. Read graphic novels quite a bit and so far have been doing so on my ipad (which is dying :D).

P.S.: We don't have kindle colorsoft in India, so will have to get it from the US.

I have a Kobo Clara Color which I bought as a backup to my Kobo Aura. I still prefer my Aura, but then I'm more used to it and the software displays my book formatting choices better.

I'll put my ebooks with art on my Clara, and it's pretty cool to be able to admire them in color rather than black and white. The Devils, Sanderson's Secret Projects... sometimes I'll search for fanart and add it to my epubs for the experience.

Otherwise, the reading experience is fairly similar. The touchscreen on the Clara is a bit more sensitive than my Aura, with better refresh time. But it also has slightly shorter battery life for use. I probably have to charge it once every 1-2 weeks, while my Aura is more like 3-4 weeks (and this is with reading 1-2 books a week). The Clara also has more bugs than the Aura... or maybe I should say different bugs. Every now and then the Clara will tell me I don't have authorization to read my sideloaded books, but plugging it in to the computer usually solves that. Every now and then my Aura freezes and I have to hard restart it.

The base page color on the Clara is slightly more yellow than on my Aura, and so color images are also slightly darker than they appear on my computer and not quite as sharp as a black and white. I don't really use the highlight feature much, but the colors are nifty. If you like to mark up the book, being able to choose color differences in highlighting might be useful.

Ultimately, it's a toss up though. I got it because the prices were pretty much the same between color & B&W when I was looking for a backup ereader, and I decided to try something different rather than more of the same. If I'd been able to buy the exact same model as my Aura, I probably would've gotten that instead. The color is a novelty and fun, but it doesn't affect the reading experience for me. I haven't tried reading a graphic novel or manga or anything--the book screen is a bit smaller than a typical manga size, but the resolution is pretty good so it'd probably be fine.

If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer. I definitely prefer Kobo over any other reader, but then I hate proprietary software so refuse to ever get a Kindle.