Sham bam bamina! posted:

Looked this up and wasn't disappointed.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Looked this up and wasn't disappointed.

Edit: Found it through the developer's comment on this blog post, which I also want to share.

lifg posted:

Holy poo poo I used to play this guy’s games all the time. Honeycomb Hotel is a great logic game.

He never really adapted to a post 2002 internet. Or mobile. Or Steam. Or any app stores.

quote:

I've been busy rewriting all of my development tools and the KINT
interpreter itself, all (well, mostly) new design. I've got most of
the code working for all the menus, dialogs, toolbar, Help, etc.,
and will very soon (as a test case for all the new code) start
porting Crocotile to that "code platform." Crocotile is one of 4
remaining games that were written in the original KINT "assembly
language." The new version will be the same basic game, but the
user interface and all the underlying code will be in C (MUCH more
easily modified and maintained). Don't expect much in the way of
changes or enhancements to the game, though.

After that, we'll see. I recently encountered a mobile game that
I quite enjoyed. It shares some similarities with Crocotile, while
being significantly different. I think it would make a great 5th
entry in my 'tile' game series. Time will tell. I'm retired, don't
you know, so I move a little slower... :-)

Best wishes,
Everett

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Looked this up and wasn't disappointed.

Edit: Found it through the developer's comment on this blog post, which I also want to share.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

I'm glad you found it because I hadn't been able to when I looked. What am I looking at here?

quote:

Beckett's Books is a type of jigsaw puzzle, but instead of putting together images, you're primarily putting together pages of text from books. As you put together the pages of the book, you read the book. Many books are included, from Sherlock Holmes to Tarzan to Mark Twain to The Wizard of Oz to Jane Austen to H G Wells... and many more, over 40 books to solve! The number of tiles per puzzle and the number of lines of text per tile is controllable, making the puzzles easier or more difficult, providing dozens to hundreds of puzzles per book. Puzzle solving becomes a type of "slow reading" as you piece together the words and lines of text. All books included are in English, but books in other languages are supported and may be added to the game. See below for additional books you can add to the game, and read the Help screens in the game to find out how you can add your own books to the game.

muscles like this! posted:

Anyone else pick up Devil House by John Darnielle? It's real loving good man.

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

Also is there any way to get audiobooks ala carte without an Audible subscription?

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

Also is there any way to get audiobooks ala carte without an Audible subscription?

Gaius Marius posted:

Like goodreads or something?

buffalo all day posted:

i think im the only person on the forums who is interested in jack reacher books and also the series that i guess is debuting this week? is there somewhere im missing where people talk about these awesome books

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

I just read like fifteen of the books . . .last week? Week before?

Definitely in the "I've read a lot of much dumber stuff" category. TV show might be good. Someone was talking about it recently on the forum somewhere or I wouldn't have read them.

buffalo all day posted:

i think they're kind of brilliant. my appreciation especialyl skyrocketed when his brother wrote the last one and it was so clear how bad they could be if they weren't done just right.

janet maslin has/had this deep crush on the series so the nytimes of all places has glowing reviews on most of the books and each one is like "you aren't gonna believe this, but..."

quote:

A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost no traditional redeeming qualities, aside from efficiency and professionalism. Parker is callous, meticulous, and perfectly willing to commit murder if he deems it necessary. He does, however, live by one ethical principle: he will not double-cross another professional criminal with whom he is working, unless they try to double-cross him. Should that happen, Parker will unhesitatingly undertake to exact a thorough and brutal revenge.

Disappointing Pie posted:

Is there a Kindle thread around here? Holy hell I'm batting my head against something dumb.

We have 3 readers in our family myself and my wife and our 9 year old, we had only two kindles, two paperwhites. My son just used my account on his iPad to read books from my collection. (Animorphs, Goosebumps etc), it was kind of annoying because his progress synced to my stuff, and my stuff synced to his iPad etc.

So my wife for my birthday bought me a new Kindle, and we decided to give the 9 year old my old one so he has his own. He was very excited. I found that you can create a kids account in your Amazon Household so I did and got the Kindle setup for him, but when I went to add books from my library to his, I can't add any sideloaded ebooks. I get it, Amazon can't guarantee what you are sending your kids Kindle etc etc.

But I'm trying to figure out a way to have it so he has his own account and we can share our books with him, Amazon books and sideloaded stuff and I just cannot for the life of me think of a good way to do this... Any ideas?

Humerus posted:

There is an ereader thread, in IYG: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3366619

But to try to help: when you say it won't let you side load, does that mean even if you plug it in to a computer to move files? Or just no emailing?

Disappointing Pie posted:

Is there a Kindle thread around here? Holy hell I'm batting my head against something dumb.

We have 3 readers in our family myself and my wife and our 9 year old, we had only two kindles, two paperwhites. My son just used my account on his iPad to read books from my collection. (Animorphs, Goosebumps etc), it was kind of annoying because his progress synced to my stuff, and my stuff synced to his iPad etc.

So my wife for my birthday bought me a new Kindle, and we decided to give the 9 year old my old one so he has his own. He was very excited. I found that you can create a kids account in your Amazon Household so I did and got the Kindle setup for him, but when I went to add books from my library to his, I can't add any sideloaded ebooks. I get it, Amazon can't guarantee what you are sending your kids Kindle etc etc.

But I'm trying to figure out a way to have it so he has his own account and we can share our books with him, Amazon books and sideloaded stuff and I just cannot for the life of me think of a good way to do this... Any ideas?

Franchescanado posted:

Hoopla and Libby will probably have 80% of the audiobooks you're interested in, depending on your library system. You'll need a library card, but that's it.

Hoopla has a desktop website you can use to manage your library and look things up.

Libby is a part of Overdrive, but it's strictly app-based, so you have to manage that with your phone or tablet.

Audible manages to get a lot of exclusive deals with authors, so there's gonna be things you'll miss out on. I usually check Audible first to make sure the book isn't exclusive to them, but then I hunt them down on Hoopla or Libby. I like Libby's interface and bookmarking system more than Hoopla, but I've noticed Hoopla has the better library.

Both also offer ebooks, and Hoopla also has comics, films and music.

If you don't want to use GoodReads, I've found StoryGraph to be a nice alternative.

I prefer how StoryGraph lets you rate and review books. The stats and "mood" graphs are nice too. The biggest issue it has is that the library itself is a mess. GoodReads is really easy to add a book to your library and mark what edition you have. StoryGraph is a pain in the rear end to try and find your edition. Most of them aren't in the system. It's also marked by ISBN. If a book's edition is tied to that ISBN, you just won't be able to log your edition. They have a manual system where you can add your edition to the list of editions, but it's time consuming, it gets messy when you try and find the right publishers, you have to have a picture of the book's cover as an image file on your computer, and you may go through all of this carefully, hit the save button, and find that the ISBN is tied to another edition, and it will bounce you back with all of your work gone.

It has a smaller user base, there's less of a social media aspect to it, so reviews tend to be better and there's less "book culture" clutter.

Neither of them have a good list function. GoodReads Listopia is permanently open to edit by any user on the page. So if you're trying to make a personal list, some jackass can come in and add Twilight and Harry Potter to it. It's also limited to 100 books per user, per list. Incredibly limiting. Storygraph doesn't have a list function that I can find.

I've tried to make a list of book recommendations that I get from a podcast I like, and I'm stuck using GoodReads's Listopia because that's the lesser of two shits.

Anyway, I'm now stuck using both GoodReads and StoryGraph because both have aspects I like, but neither are really good on their own terms for what I want out a book logging website.

Boco_T posted:

TWO new Cormac McCarthy books this year, and it's been so long since he released a book that the previous thread got archived
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/books/cormac-mccarthy-new-novels.html

"In “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris,” he tackles more cerebral subjects: the history of math and physics, the nature of reality and consciousness, whether religion and science can coexist, and the relationship between genius and madness."

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

quantumfoam posted:

Book of the Month reading club seems to dying a slow death. Has any thought been put towards having any of the other SA subforums nominate/vote on books for the back half of 2022 (BYOB chooses July, GBS August, FYAD September, Coupons December)? Or if that earlier suggestion is too much coordination and unpaid work, make whoever nominates the winning book of the month also the Idiot King of the month for the Book Barn?

Perry Mason Jar posted:

I remember some time ago there was a popular thread here for reading the Bible. Basically was a guide to cut out the fluff and get the meat. Anyone got a link? Not finding it now

Perry Mason Jar posted:

I remember some time ago there was a popular thread here for reading the Bible. Basically was a guide to cut out the fluff and get the meat. Anyone got a link? Not finding it now

quantumfoam posted:

Book of the Month reading club seems to dying a slow death. Has any thought been put towards having any of the other SA subforums nominate/vote on books for the back half of 2022 (BYOB chooses July, GBS August, FYAD September, Coupons December)? Or if that earlier suggestion is too much coordination and unpaid work, make whoever nominates the winning book of the month also the Idiot King of the month for the Book Barn?

Gripweed posted:

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

It's a problem and one I've been locking horns with for a while, but it might just be the slow decline of the forums generally. I try to use twitter and discord to advertise it, and that helps somewhat.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

It's a problem and one I've been locking horns with for a while, but it might just be the slow decline of the forums generally. I try to use twitter and discord to advertise it, and that helps somewhat.