# Kindle First: June dilemma **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784 "2014-06-01T18:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/1 "2014-06-01T18:01:20Z")
So, i’m interested in two of this month’s selections. _The Fracking King_ and _Supreme Justice_. Thoughts on which is the best bet? Collins is a known quantity (though it has an uncredited co-author), but the Browning book sounds interesting. I’m actually curious about _Artful_ too, but rarely does someone playing in another writer’s universe work for me. I’d go splits with my sister and borrow the other but she writes she’d get the romance if she got anything. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/2 "2014-06-01T18:03:12Z")
Ummm… get both of them? ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/3 "2014-06-01T19:17:57Z")
ThelmaLou - you can only take one for free. I also had the same dilemma and ended up taking Artful. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/4 "2014-06-01T19:41:53Z")
As a Prime member, I don’t know how I missed this program (Kindle First). Unfortunately, it’s all Amazon-published titles and I’ve found (IMHO, of course) that they still haven’t reached the quality of normal publishers. If you use Kindle First, it doesn’t count against your one borrowed book a month, right? ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/5 "2014-06-01T20:42:45Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > If you use Kindle First, it doesn’t count against your one borrowed book a month, right? Right. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/6 "2014-06-01T21:06:45Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > ThelmaLou - you can only take one for free. > > I also had the same dilemma and ended up taking Artful. If I wanted both, I’d get one for free and buy the other one. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/7 "2014-06-02T03:00:33Z")
That fracking book does look interesting. I’m deciding between that and Artful. Kind of leaning towards Fracking, just to pick up a piece of literary fiction. I don’t read enough of that. Supreme Justice sounds like it could be good, too. Seems like a similar story to Pelican Brief. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/8 "2014-06-02T03:07:44Z")
I went with Artful. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/9 "2014-06-02T08:46:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > If I wanted both, I’d get one for free and buy the other one. The dilemma is a big part of Kindle Prime - I’ve bought a lot more books because I’ve been introduced to new authors and sought out their other books, but you also encounter so many bad authors you become risk-averse as far as spending money on an unknown. Typically, I’d get _Fracking_ for free and buy the other - I’ve read Max Collins and like him, so I’d be spending money on a known quantity (I bought one of his books just last month). But _Supreme Justice_ seems derivative (as someone said, it’s the plot of _The Pelican Brief_) and it’s got a ghost co-author, which is kind of dodgy. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/10 "2014-06-02T11:47:49Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > I went with Artful. I did too. None of the others particularly appealed to me, but I’ve been enjoying graphic novels on the kindle more than I expected to. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-first-june-dilemma/689784/11 "2014-06-02T20:22:35Z")
My dilemma was between _Supreme Justice_ and _Artful_: I chose the former. I might still buy _Artful_. I might also check out Terry Pratchett’s _Dodger_ (thanks to a comment in one of the reviews).