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Thanks for the e reader discussion, I'm going to look for amazon to put theirs in sale next week (I hope). I went browsing Amazon to show a friend how ridiculous the price of that one Gotrek and Felix omnibus was, the fourth one. It used to be listed used on Amazon for hundreds of dollars. But I discovered that they reissued and are still reissuing the Gotrek and Felix omnibuses! Two questions: First, for those who didn't hate the Nathan Long stuff, are the additional stories included in omnibus 4 worth checking out? I only read this three books individually due to not being able to afford the used omnibus. Second, how does Josh Reynolds do with the fifth omnibus books? I actually know who he is now from reading 40k.
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VanSandman posted:He thinks about his brutal murders.
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Nov 19, 2020 15:21
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Kindles are fantastic. I've had this beauty for a decade? I should probably replace it sometime soon. 
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jassi007 posted:Kindles are fantastic. I've had this beauty for a decade? I should probably replace it sometime soon. Night Lords Hell Yeah
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I've been using the kindle app for like 8 years now. Sometimes I feel guilty for not buying actual physical books anymore, but the convenience and the huge amounts of money I've saved make up for it. ALTHOUGH I must say you people and your fuckin sick as hell limited editions makes me want to buy actual books.
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Nov 19, 2020 16:27
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I love epub/mobi if for no other reason that my always bad eyes have grown so worse in recent years that reading normal text is eye-strainingly uncomfortable, whereas i can resize e-text to whatever Mr Magoo like level i like.
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According to the interlibrary loan service Maryland has, there is ONE copy of Regents Shadow in a public library in the USA. Titandeath is a bit better, a quick trip up to NYC for that one. The Great Work is the best though. There's a copy of that to be had in Auckland, New Zealand. I just want cheap paperbacks for these dumb books. Black Library seems to want hardcovers, ebooks, and audiobooks. Bah!
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Agreed that Kindle owns. I got my first Paperwhite in 2014 and never went back. I still buy books but now I can save a LITTLE cash by only getting things I think are worth it vs gambling constantly.
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Galvanik posted:According to the interlibrary loan service Maryland has, there is ONE copy of Regents Shadow in a public library in the USA. To be fair, the paperback market as a whole has really had a tough couple of years. Better to focus on "high end" hardbacks and digital copies. The whole purpose of a paperback was the relative disposability of it once it was read. That said, I LOVE my old BL paperbacks, and I'm sad to see that my collection hasn't grown since maybe 2015.
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I don't want to spend $60+ for an ereader that I then have to then buy the books for. The digital versions don't even seem to be cheaper. Saturnine for instance is $17. Meanwhile the paperback version of Betrayer I've got is $10. So the 10 or so books I want to read would end up costing me more than twice what paperbacks would have cost. A total racket I tell you.
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Galvanik posted:I don't want to spend $60+ for an ereader that I then have to then buy the books for. The digital versions don't even seem to be cheaper. Saturnine for instance is $17. Meanwhile the paperback version of Betrayer I've got is $10. Kindle versions of BL books are cheaper than new paperbacks, but there's definitely a much smaller gap than for most books. I absolutely love my Kindle and I only buy hard copies of something with real sentimental value anymore.
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I used to have the first generation kindle and i loved it, but it got stolen. Ive been looking to buy a new one since I've been reading books on my phone for years now and haven't bought a physical book since maybe 2010. anyway, the kindle selection is insanely confusing. I'll need an international one, i know that, (im in europe) but there's a bunch of different types and the covers that can be bought separately say which generation they're for instead of which type and size. Anyone have a suggestion? As few bells and whistles as possible except a light of some kind to facilitate reading in the dark, small as possible, longest battery life possible. With a cover of some kind.
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Kindle Paperwhites are probably what you're looking for. Amazon just started its Black Friday sale so it's a good time to buy. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/amazon-kindle-is-the-best-ebook-reader/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-amazon-kindle-paperwhite-case/ Kaal fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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If you are interested in getting hardbacks/paperbacks/LEs aftermarket I would suggest you join the Black Library Nutters Warhammer Buy and Sell Community group on Facebook. It's a great BL focused group with over 800 members that are constantly posting books for sale in all formats (including a lot of LE selling) and always cheaper than eBay. I'm a member of quite a few FB buy/sell groups for Warhammer and non-Warhammer items and it is by far the best run community I am a member of. The admins are very active and will ban scalpers, assholes, scammers, etc at the drop of a hat and strongly encourage reasonable pricing and selling practices. They can be a big help in sourcing LE books and plenty of people even buy copies for people who can't be on their computer at the time releases drop. A lot of the members are UK based, but there are plenty of US and other country members as well. If you need a hardback or paperback that is out of print there is a very good chance you can source it there.
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Galvanik posted:I don't want to spend $60+ for an ereader that I then have to then buy the books for. I don't know how it is elsewhere but there's always a few BL books in Amazon's Kindle Monthly Deals priced at £1.99 each, and there seems to be pretty good Humble ebook bundles that pop up every year or so. So if you're willing to be patient you can get some great deals. And in terms of the outlay for the ereader you can get them really cheap secondhand on ebay.
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Finally landed two of my white whales for actual decent prices. Carrion Throne rarely pops up for sale since they only did 1k of them and it is such a popular book. It's a beautiful LE and goes well with the two Horusian War series LEs out so far.    Solar War is just about impossible to find at a decent price because it's the one everybody is missing and they all want to complete their SoT collections. I've seen it go for $700 on eBay. Thankfully I paid nowhere near that. I now have my SoT LE set complete for what is out so far.  My full collection as of now (Ravenor LE on the way):  
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:My jealousy of that shelf could pierce the sky I'm proud of it, but unfortunately I'm a completionist and not nearly satisfied. I need Black Legion/Talon of Horus LEs, Eisenhorn trilogy LE, Magos LE, Horus Rising LE, the complete Primarch LEs (this will be a bitch), the various Gaunt's Ghosts LEs, Primogenitor LE, Spears megabox LE, a ton of art books that have released over the years, and several others. At least I've got the new release process down and I won't miss any coming out in the future, but the aftermarket is hell on the wallet. Edit: Oh and I started the HH and Inferno print on demand about two releases in so I need to source the first two runs of each. Edit 2: Also, I've been in contact with Ian Watson and if I can find a first ed Inquisitor and Space Marine he agreed to sign them for me if I ship them. Unfortunately, neither got a collector's edition hardback like the Harlequin and Chaos Child copies I have on the top there, but it would be rad to have that full set signed. D-Pad fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Nov 22, 2020 |
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Finished The First Wall. Good, but not great. The scale felt right, and the characters were fleshed out nicely. The human POV was a bit mediocre; 'loyal trooper is loyal' would already be a tired trope even if this wasn't the 241st book of the kind. Guy That Wasn't Sigismund was there only to die offscreen. Dorn felt right; I now see why people said he was becoming more than stolid, unwavering stern guy. His legion, not so much. Forrix's incursion was grueling enough to make up for the fact that we know he lives...barely. Kharn was an afterthought. But the ending galled me a lot. Perturabo just letting the beaten Fists evacuate? Even taking into account that chaos may be warping his judgement and feeding his mania, that's ridiculous. Destroy every fleeing transport but Dorn's to twist the dagger of failure in his gut? THAT is what a spite monster like Pert would do. Telling Dorn to pick one company to leave behind so the others ones could get a safe-conducts back, forcing him to pick amongs his sons and making him do an Iron Warrior style decimation of his forces. Abaddon wasn't bad, just...a bit weird. I like him wondering about the endgame. But him charging in to save a blood-maddened Kharn, then just shrugging and not doing the same for the far less chaos-frothing sorcerer was peak "Well, that guy is a canon veteran, the new one isnt" decision making. I understand that chaos-corrupted characters change and become less like themselves. But it worries me that they all become 'worse' characters, in a literary sense. I wish they gace chaos a bit more finesse and variation. Even the lore in the codexes manages to make not all Khorne warriors the same boring maniac. Some seek the skulls of big monsters like oldschool safari hunters. Some remember that Khorne is the god of war, not the god of axes, and amass artillery like crazy to turn hives into craters. Some hold massive events of bloodsports. But in the actual Black Library, every traitor is either Jarson Vorhees on meth or a 'Muahahaha!' egomaniac. Some personality would go a long way.
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On one hand, heretics exist to be shot. On the other hand, interesting heretics are much more entertaining to shoot.
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War of Secrets is so disappointingly bad. The big Tau lore poo poo with the fifth expansion is so poorly handled and so dumb
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Finished The Infinite and the Divine, it's really good, I'm impressed that's the author's first BL book.
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Came across a fun fan theory that Sanguinius killed Horus, flew into the black rage and then wounded the Emperor. Was there witnesses to these fights?
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Ego-bot posted:Came across a fun fan theory that Sanguinius killed Horus, flew into the black rage and then wounded the Emperor. Was there witnesses to these fights? I really hope this is true now
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Definitely one of the better theories, would be really dope to uncover in the book. I’ll make sure to get the collectors edition that releases 6 months early so I can spoil it for you. Did we get 4 siege books in 2020?
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Ego-bot posted:Came across a fun fan theory that Sanguinius killed Horus, flew into the black rage and then wounded the Emperor. Was there witnesses to these fights? There's a very old short story in the PoV of the Emperor that shows the whole fight but that's about it.
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The new books are gonna reveal Grimgor showed up, kicked the big E in the nuts, then ran off victorious.
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Angry Lobster posted:Finished The Infinite and the Divine, it's really good, I'm impressed that's the author's first BL book. it's fun, except for the overuse of specific numbers when it's not necessary. "500 cubits" "1000 leagues per hour" gently caress off already. A: if these are actually meant to be the human definitions of cubits and leagues they're way off vis a vis the vastness of space. B: if they're not meant to be the human definitions, and they're just "archaic" sounding measures of distances, why the gently caress do we care about whether it's 5000 leagues/second or 5 million? It's all technobabble anyways. Just a really inelegant use of numbers. a fun book otherwise though.
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All the battles were a bit poo poo. The end was loving amazing, with the way it handled time and how things evolve in that time.
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drat it drat IT they put the Night Lords LE collection up on the site out of the blue a couple days ago and I missed it
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The Iron Rose posted:it's fun, except for the overuse of specific numbers when it's not necessary. 
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Arquinsiel posted:How else will you know that they are Space Egyptians though? Well I'm sure their accents were 100% accurate.
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Ego-bot posted:Came across a fun fan theory that Sanguinius killed Horus, flew into the black rage and then wounded the Emperor. Was there witnesses to these fights? I’m pretty sure Gork and Mork saw Horus clubbing da emprah like a baby seal, so they cunningly brutalized Horus, then tossed that humie warboss into the fancy chair to keep things interesting.
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I really want to find out that someones corpse other than the emperor is sitting on the golden throne, but I’m afraid that ship had already sailed.
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Bucnasti posted:I really want to find out that someones corpse other than the emperor is sitting on the golden throne, but I’m afraid that ship had already sailed. But if it weren't the emperor, the Astronomican wouldn't work
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:But if it weren't the emperor, the Astronomican wouldn't work It sucks the soul out of thousands of psykers each day to power a brightly shining lock in the warp for all the reader knows.
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We do have direct confirmation from Roboute Guilliman that it's the big E.
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Any chance Bobby G would fib to hold the entire empire of humanity together?
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