Re: Aftermarket Afterlife by seanan McGuire

In article <nerqfj1mu6jcl1hb3bdci9jdkberc1p2g9@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

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

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Multicolumn PDF files are another category that, in my experience,
doesn't work very well on a Kindle.
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Ages ago, I was sent a double-columned PDF from Haikasoru, which
I dutifully converted to Epub and imported to my Kobo. I don't
know what I expected Calibre to do with two columns but what it
actually did was treat them as one column. Oddly, the resulting
mess was more readable than you'd expect. It took me a couple of
pages to realize it was not a bold stylistic choice.
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