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12-30-2014 | #1 | |||||||||||
Mystic
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eBooks swelling like dead corpses, offered like buffet.
"Pay a flat fee and whatever junk or treasure is inside this massive container of stuff belongs to you!" | |||||||||||
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10-07-2015 | #2 | |||||||||||
Mystic
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Re: eBooks swelling like dead corpses, offered like buffet.
I'm not against ebooks as a technology as I think in some cases it offers the opportunity to read works I couldn't otherwise have afforded.
That being said, I found this headline quite uplifting... Waterstones to stop selling Kindle as book sales surge | Books | The Guardian | |||||||||||
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”
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10-07-2015 | #3 | |||||||||||
Acolyte
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Re: eBooks swelling like dead corpses, offered like buffet.
I can only afford e-books. I would gladly pay a bit more though. I live in Norway so many books are only easily accessible through Kindle. I agree too that there is a lot of self published garbage, specially in the military fiction, post apocalyptic genre- Abysmal stuff.
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"I myself have never seen the Red Tower - no one ever has, and possibly no one ever will. And yet wherever I go people are talking about it. In one way or another they are talking about the nightmarish novelty items or about the mysterious and revolting hyper-organisms, as well as babbling endlessly about the subterranean system of tunnels and the secluded graveyard whose headstones display no names and no dates designating either birth or death"
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10-07-2015 | #4 | |||||||||||
Grimscribe
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Re: eBooks swelling like dead corpses, offered like buffet.
I love books as physical objects (for example, S by J.J. Abrams may not be a good novel, but it is a thing of beauty), their smell, the feeling of pages in my fingers, but it is true that with an electronic reading device dust, lack of availability, lack of physical space and affordability are no longer a problem.
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Your fall should be like the fall of mountains. But I was before mountains. I was in the beginning, and shall be forever. The first and the last. The world come full circle. I am not the wheel. I am the hand that turns the wheel. I am Time, the Destroyer. I was the wind and the stars before this. Before planets. Before heaven and hell. And when all is done, I will be wind again, to blow this world as dust back into endless space. To me the coming and going of Man is as nothing.
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10-17-2015 | #5 | |||||||||||
Grimscribe
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Re: eBooks swelling like dead corpses, offered like buffet.
I couldn't agree more, especially with the first part of your sentence! | |||||||||||
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