Part of today’s Kindle ebook deal of the day over at Amazon is the Douglas Adams novel Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, the follow-up to Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, for only $1.99 (that’s 75% off the regular price of $7.99). If you’d like to purchase a physical copy of Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, the book is also available in mass market paperback.

Note – this deal is valid only for today, Monday, December 23, 2013, until 11:59pm PST.

Be sure to check out this month’s Kindle deals: 100 Kindle Books For $3.99 or Less, which includes Stardust by Neil Gaiman for $1.99; Stephen King’s The Shining for $3.99; The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters for $2.79; and Divergent by Veronica Roth for $3.99.

About Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul:

— You can gift Kindle books and set your gift to be delivered whenever you want to anyone with an email address. On the Product Page (on the top right side), click the button that reads “Give as a Gift.” From there you enter the recipient’s email address and note the date you’d like your gift to be delivered via email, and also include a personalized message. There’s also the option to have the gift emailed right to you that you can forward the gift email to the recipient yourself or print it out and personally deliver it to the recipient.

— You don’t actually need a Kindle device to read these ebooks. Books can be read on a Kindle or one of Amazon’s free reading apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows PC, Mac, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7.

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