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StrixNebulosa posted:So I went ahead and bought myself a copy of this translation used and uhhhhh this is more used condition than I was expecting! still definately readable, at least you don't have to worry about keeping it nice while reading it
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StrixNebulosa posted:it was listed as "used - good" 
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:what happened to the horror thread? It's now in the Halloween subforum. I still find myself wandering around TBB looking for it, because I am stuck in my strangely bookmarked ways.
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I randomly remember to seek updates on Gurrm and his unfinished book. Pretty funny at this point https://www.nationalworld.com/cultu...es-book-4246753 Lol? Along with Doors of Stone or whatever the Rothfuss book is
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Picked up The Age of Scandal by T. H. White, and wow, this is really hard to reconcile with what I would have expected from the author of The Once and Future King:quote:Well, we have lived to see the end of civilization in England. I was once a gentleman myself. When I was an undergraduate at Cambridge, the Master of a college was a fabulous being, who lived in a Lodge of breath-taking beauty and incalculable antiquity, tended by housemaids, footmen and a butler. There he consumed vintage port, wrote abstruse treatises if the spirit moved him, and lived the life of an impressive, cultivated gentleman. Such posts were among the few and noble rewards rightly offered to scholarship by the civilization which then existed.
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Rand Brittain posted:Picked up The Age of Scandal by T. H. White, and wow, this is really hard to reconcile with what I would have expected from the author of The Once and Future King: I find it perfectly easy to reconcile with the version of TOAFK which interpolates a bunch of rants about communism via Arthur being transformed into an ant.
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Google has become aggressively unwilling to pull up the Goodreads pages for books as results.
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FPyat posted:Google has become aggressively unwilling to pull up the Goodreads pages for books as results. Google in general has become trash for searching. News seems to give me the worst articles first. I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo as my default, no regrets
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I used to use google for very specific work related searches and it just stopped working sometime this summer. I am now, may Allah forgive me for uttering that word, on bing.com
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It's funny that I've lived through: 0) Gopher 1) there aren't that many websites so you just remember them 2) you look them up in a catalogue book 3) Altavista works but you still save bookmarks 4) Google works but you still save bookmarks 5) No-one uses bookmarks because you can just "Google" it. 6) CAPITALISM 7) Google doesn't work, Bing gives me porn, I wish I had bookmarked everything  e: This is on-topic as it's about bookmarks 
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If you're willing to pay a premium for quality search, then Kagi is genuinely fantastic. You could even set it to rank Goodreads pages higher in the search for you.
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General chat: every book should have nice endpapers. If it's a paperback, the inside covers should be decorated, like many comic albums' used to.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:General chat: every book should have nice endpapers. If it's a paperback, the inside covers should be decorated, like many comic albums' used to. I love when I encounter high-quality physical books. I finished Le Carre's collected letters a few weeks ago and among the many interesting letters was one wherein he ripped his publisher a new orifice because of the poor quality paper they were using to print his books.
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Rand Brittain posted:Picked up The Age of Scandal by T. H. White, and wow, this is really hard to reconcile with what I would have expected from the author of The Once and Future King: this is deeply in keeping with fallen upper class Britain of the time, and the resentment over that loss of wealth, status and class. I mean the whole story is of a country that needs a saviour and it's found in an unexpected youth who is the chosen one
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 https://terrypratchett.com/news/a-stroke-of-the-pen-published/
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Oh poo poo, thanks! Boyfriend is a big Discworld fan and I need Christmas presents for him. Maybe I'll read the series one day, he has all 40(?) of them.
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King ALMOST managed to write a book without underage loving.
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Hi! I don't lurk or poke around here ever but this is the only relevant space I can think of to share this -- After about twenty years of searching based on vague memories of books I read when I was eight years old at a summer camp out of state (with not a single soul I'd ever met before or have seen since to ask), I finally identified the titles of two of the books. ...they are both out of print. Amazon has one used copy of one for over $900, one of the authors is dead, and the other seems to have veered into being big into the Iraq war so I feel like that's probably a dead end as far as tracking copies down. But hey! Confirmation I didn't imagine them!  They're Spinetinglers #13 and #30.
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Well if nothing else you've compelled me to look up a childhood book I was told at the time was super rare and it's good news for me: copies of Dean Koontz' Oddkins are pretty cheap on ebay. I remember it being pretty hardcore for a kids picture book and to this day it remains the only Dean Koontz thing I've ever read.
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i wish i had been able to have gone thru with my idea to make a wide format flatbed printer and start slamming out copies of books
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Turbinosamente posted:Well if nothing else you've compelled me to look up a childhood book I was told at the time was super rare and it's good news for me: copies of Dean Koontz' Oddkins are pretty cheap on ebay. I remember it being pretty hardcore for a kids picture book and to this day it remains the only Dean Koontz thing I've ever read. Whoa, also the only Koontz book I've ever read, that was excellent if very creepy
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branedotorg posted:Whoa, also the only Koontz book I've ever read, that was excellent if very creepy Exactly. It was technically read to me in my 4th grade class, and I'll forever remember the teacher having to explain what gun recoil was to us kids. Wasn't there also an illustration for that event, sending all the evil toys who tried to use it flying? Or at least evil toy leader, I've forgot what he was, some magician doll? So many details lost, I just remember mostly general plot and some of the injuries the good toys got going on the epic quest for a new creator.
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I'm reading To The Lighthouse and American Tabloid right now. I like both in, um, very different ways. I haven't gotten to the 'Time Passes' section of To The Lighthouse yet, but so far I really, really love getting pulled into the flow each character's thoughts, and there's just something about getting submerged in the density and the texture of it all. To me her prose feels crisp and precise (the occasional baffling search for a pronoun referent notwithstanding), while - thinking back to As I Lay Dying - I sometimes find Faulkner feels extremely slippery. American Tabloid is weird, lurid, and heightened to a degree that shouldn't work. But it does work somehow, and I appreciate this specific style of secret history fiction, where what passes for 'Conspiracy to control US politics' is actually just one years-long ongoing clusterfuck of shitheads tossing out ill-advised, hasty plans. DrankSinatra fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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Algernon Blackwood is finally receiving some long overdue hardcover treatment — this edition from Flame Tree Publications on October 24th: https://www.flametreepublishing.com/algernon-blackwood-horror-stories-isbn-9781804177099.html
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Giga Pet giveaway posted:They're Spinetinglers #13 and #30. I had to look this up. Jim DeFelice, who I know of as the guy who wrote the plot to the 'real world' Ace Combat game, wrote #30 lmao, incredible
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I miss Hilary Mantel so loving much. That is all.
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Is there some software that is completely identical to Calibre, except it doesn't duplicate every book in your collection like a dumb piece of poo poo? I don't want or need its stupid rationale for why the dev's braindead file organization is better, I just want something that displays all my books, offers metadata editing/downloading, and has a local content server to transfer the files to my iPad without having to touch iTunes. Calibre has all that, but I don't want it moving all my files around.
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Annath posted:Is there some software that is completely identical to Calibre If there was a program that is identical or better than Calibre, we'd all be using it.
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Armauk posted:If there was a program that is identical or better than Calibre, we'd all be using it. RIP Oh well, I guess I'll just designate a "Calibre input folder", which is the only way to make it delete the originals when you add them to the library, and then dump all my files into that. No idea how long it'll take - the transfer itself wouldn't take long, but parsing the metadata will slow it down.
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Annath posted:RIP Yeah, I have an incoming folder that I drop stuff into and just forget about because Calibre takes care of it. It’s really easy, there’s not much point in attempting anything else.
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just finished Gideon the Ninth cause my cousin really wanted me to read it to discuss it with her. I Liked it, the tumblresque quirkyism sentences ("she noped out of there", "she had the depression", cursing and use of the word "bitch" in silly places) kinda grated on me but as I read on it reminded me a lot of homestuck(positively) and how the conversations were written. anyone else read it and would like to discuss?
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Well I know one person who is making sure to never read it now.
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Gaius Marius posted:Well I know one person who is making sure to never read it now. Nopeing out of it I see
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There's actually a whole Locked Tomb thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3937069 Although beware of spoilers I guess. Or just read the next two before you read the thread!
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ShutteredIn posted:Yeah, I have an incoming folder that I drop stuff into and just forget about because Calibre takes care of it. It’s really easy, there’s not much point in attempting anything else. I made the folder, designated it in Calibre, dumped the books in, and Calibre started chugging. It got through 178 files before Calibre crashed lol. I guess it balked at 2500 files at once. When I reopened it, it didn't start processing the files in there, so I just started dropping them in manually by author. I have to manually delete the originals, but it's not that bad.
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Is there a way to do it in reverse? I have a kindle book that I have read and would love to pass on to a friend. With physical books, its no problem but I can imagine Amazon doesn't want to let any potential cash slip through its fingers
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Bilirubin posted:Is there a way to do it in reverse? I have a kindle book that I have read and would love to pass on to a friend. With physical books, its no problem but I can imagine Amazon doesn't want to let any potential cash slip through its fingers If you mean defeating the Amazon DRM so you can share the e-book, it is possible but so convoluted that simply buying a copy for your friend would be a better use of your time.
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