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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2012 11:37:17 am PDT #18432 of 28686
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, I like real books! But it would also be nice to have e-versions sometimes. Except I already paid for the book! It's the same reason I don't usually buy mp3s because I don't want to pay for the same music twice if I want to buy the CD.

And I do understand that e-books don't magically appear, and they take work to convert and make awesome for e-readers, but I can't see why they should cost as much as a physical book. It was nice when I bought Machine of Death, and they sent us all free ebook versions in multiple formats.

Atropa - Apr 11, 2012 11:59:48 am PDT #18433 of 28686
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

There should be someway to sell e and paper versions together for a discount. Say the e-book went dead in two weeks unless revived by a code found in the printed version.

I wish this would happen. Usually the only e-books I buy are ones I already own in paper, but want to be able to carry them with me wherever I am. (Why yes, I have e and paper versions of all the Parasol Protectorate books, The Night Circus, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. And Dracula, of course, but that's a given.)

Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2012 12:03:36 pm PDT #18434 of 28686
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Does Anathem have graphs and charts and shit? I am considering it for my next audiobook (almost done with Ready Player One, so I am in a Neal Stephenson mood now), but I don't want to miss out on any great visual aids like in Cryptonomicon. Although actually Reamde seems like an even more appropriate follow-up to that book. Any graphs/charts in that one?

Tom Scola - Apr 11, 2012 12:07:56 pm PDT #18435 of 28686
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.

Anathem has a few illustrations, but more importantly, it has a glossary that will need to be referenced often.

hippocampus - Apr 11, 2012 12:17:31 pm PDT #18436 of 28686
not your mom's socks.

P-C, no. Not that I recall (for REAMDE)

Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2012 12:18:45 pm PDT #18437 of 28686
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Anathem has a few illustrations, but more importantly, it has a glossary that will need to be referenced often.

Ah, that is a good point.

P-C, no. Not that I recall (for REAMDE)

Ooh, well, maybe that would be better.

Liese S. - Apr 11, 2012 2:18:08 pm PDT #18438 of 28686
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

If it's annotated properly, using a glossary in ebooks is perfectly simple.

I wish there was a secondary market where I could *give* ebooks away. I'm happy to do without it, I just feel there should be a way I can legally transfer my drm!

erikaj - Apr 11, 2012 2:27:21 pm PDT #18439 of 28686
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal

Until that happens, people won't convert fully. Signed, didn't want to pay $12.99 for Why We Suck

le nubian - Apr 11, 2012 2:59:41 pm PDT #18440 of 28686
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

God. I need to finish Reamde.

Strix - Apr 11, 2012 4:48:40 pm PDT #18441 of 28686
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Bad me -- I read the last Parasol Protectorate weeks ago!

When others are finished, we can geeble!

And yep, P-C, there's a tie-in. Little, but there. I will try to read the rest of the stories tonight, if I have time.

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