Re: Aftermarket Afterlife by seanan McGuire

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 13:13:43 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

In article <cb4ofj9g8ue4sj46q3pfm1chk97fbk4qkn@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:54:36 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
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I just do not have shelf space for hardbacks.

I do mostly Kindle books now, as my bookshelves are quite full.
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But my experience with the Kindle edition of /From Hell/ showed me
that Kindle is not really suited to graphic novels, manga, art books,
and similar items. So I still get them, on rare occasions, in paper.
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And in paperback when possible. But a lot of times it is not possible,
or at least inconvenient for various reasons, I then I get hardback.
Generally at unbelievable expense, I might add.

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Alton Brown would no doubt berate me for having a unitasking
device but I have enough ttrpg material in PDF, and enough
of it is double-columned, a pain in the ass to read in PDF
on a laptop, that I picked up a 12.4 inch tablet on sale.
Filled up 200 GB of its 250 GB memory already.

Multicolumn PDF files are another category that, in my experience,
doesn't work very well on a Kindle.

My Fire HD 6 was /bought/ to be a single-purpose device (an electronic
picture frame that actually shows all 2098 images, one after the
other, sorted randomly, instead of just the first 50 or 60 and that
has a screen that doesn't go irretrievably white after a few months --
both of those defects are from the reviews of actual electronic
picture frames). It has since expanded to a receiving-end streaming
platform.
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