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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."
One not-King book I want to reread is Peter Straub's Floating Dragon. I remember it scaring the shit out of me
Oh, hell yes. There are images and moments from that book that still stick vividly in my mind after my single reading nearly 30 years ago.
Another fun (and scary and gruesome) read is The Talisman, which Straub and King co-wrote. It's a wonderful quest/pursuit/road-trip novel about a teenaged boy who is trying to save his mother's life.
Ha! Guess who just won an ARC of the new Gail Carriger novel, Etiquette and Espionage?
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No!
When is it coming out?
Soonish, I hope.
When is it coming out?
Her blog says Feb. 5, 2013.
XKCD on 50 Shades of Gray:
Just came frighteningly close to spewing Mountain Dew (Code Red) on my monitor at work. Awesome.
Damn. Want it NOW.
Help? I hate that I'm so clueless about tech stuff. I DL'd Great Expectations from Project Gutenberg, the Kindle edition, but ... how do I put it on my Kindle? Or was I supposed to do it *on* the Kindle?
Didn't need to say it twice.
Amy, I don't know whether the Kindle can read a .txt file without it being converted to MOBI. If it can, you can email the file to your Kindle through Amazon.
If it can't, you need to convert it and then email it.
I use Calibre, which works kind of like iTunes for ebooks. It's a free application, regularly updated, and you can use it to manage your ebooks, and convert the files to and from MOBI (the Kindle format), EPUBS, TXT, HTML, DOC, and so forth. That way I have a bunch of fic from the AO3 filed the same way as regular books are.
One of the advantages of Calibre is that you can get an extension that strips the DRM from Amazon books, so you can load them on a different type of ereader (like a Nook) if you want.
It is a MOBI file. So can I email it to my Kindle from my laptop?
Good to know about Calibre, though. I should DL that. And thank you!