If you haven't already tried it, may I recommend Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) for managing your downloaded ebooks.
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
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."
bennett - Feb 15, 2025 12:22:59 pm PST #28182 of 28194
meara - Feb 16, 2025 8:39:42 pm PST #28183 of 28194
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 28194
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 28194
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 28194
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 28194
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.
-t - Feb 18, 2025 10:12:08 am PST #28188 of 28194
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I really liked Alien Clay, both for the alien stuff and the strictly human bits. Very thinky.
JenP - Feb 18, 2025 12:41:35 pm PST #28189 of 28194
I agree. And interesting how he kept me rooting for the home team even after the effects of the long march home -- you know, normally that's be "Oh, no! How do we fix our heroes!" But they... didn't actually need fixing. I mean, I guess maybe we're supposed to feel a bit ambivalent... maybe reading it in the current state of the world pushes me to the side of Kiln biology!
Point of order: What's the whitefont rule of thumb up in here? I mean, obviously, Moby Dick, I don't need to WF, but is there a...dare I say the word... consensus? General vibe? Preference?
-t - Feb 18, 2025 12:48:14 pm PST #28190 of 28194
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The current state of the world certainly makes the human politics (and effects on scientific inquiry) seem extremely relevant! Kiln biology and what usually gets explored in transhumanism make an interesting dialog, for sure.
JenP - Feb 18, 2025 1:09:02 pm PST #28191 of 28194
The current state of the world certainly makes the human politics (and effects on scientific inquiry) seem extremely relevant!
Eerily and frighteningly so.