For those who (like me) still buy ebooks from Amazon: Amazon is cutting off the ability to download ebooks to a computer/laptop (and then convert them).
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Consuela - Feb 15, 2025 8:16:18 am PST #28178 of 28195
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Dana - Feb 15, 2025 8:28:08 am PST #28179 of 28195
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Saw that last night. Fuck them.
P.M. Marc - Feb 15, 2025 11:02:33 am PST #28180 of 28195
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, two pages out of twenty now downloaded. Sigh.
amyparker - Feb 15, 2025 11:54:22 am PST #28181 of 28195
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
If anyone else is still in the Barnes and Noble ecosystem and needs to fill in some of their Discworld collection, most of the Nook editions are on sale for $2 each today; Amazon is matching the price and does have The Wee Free Men on sale as well, but the other Tiffany Aching books are conspicuous by their absence.
Also spending time pulling down my Kindle books, bleh.
bennett - Feb 15, 2025 12:22:59 pm PST #28182 of 28195
If you haven't already tried it, may I recommend Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) for managing your downloaded ebooks.
meara - Feb 16, 2025 8:39:42 pm PST #28183 of 28195
I haven’t yet but guess I better work on downloading the kindle stuff. I also don’t have whatever it is to de-DRM my purchases anymore so gotta look at that too. Hrm.
-t - Feb 17, 2025 3:30:55 pm PST #28184 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I should do that.
Meanwhile - I just came across The Orb of Caraido, a new novella? novelette? Shorter work of some kind set in the Goblin Emperor world. The mc seems to be a new character, a historian. I’m only a couple of pages into it, but I’m liking it so far
Consuela - Feb 17, 2025 10:38:05 pm PST #28185 of 28195
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
-t, I read that last week, it was nice. Not as emotional as TGE or the other novels, but a nice bit of world-building and characterization. Maybe the character will show up in one of the other novels.
-t - Feb 18, 2025 8:28:51 am PST #28186 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have totally forgotten anything I ever knew about how names and titles work but I'm just rolling with it hoping I'm not missing too much nuance.
JenP - Feb 18, 2025 9:50:28 am PST #28187 of 28195
I just finished Alien Clay by Adrian T, and I liked it. I generally have liked his books; they're inventive. Then I read a short, fun romp called Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke about a guy who gets stuck in Slack. Cute.
Now I want to find my next read, but I don't know what I'm in the market for. I mean, I'll always read sci-fi, but I'm feeling like I should branch out. Maybe I should browse my own damn shelves. I have a few audio books on hold from Libby, but I'm way far back in the queues.