Re: (review) The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold

On Apr 2, 2025, Titus G wrote
(in article <vsicsc$q40p$1@dont-email.me>):

On 2/04/25 10:13, Ted Nolan<tednolan> wrote:

In article<vshkjo$1pkr$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>  wrote:

On 4/1/2025 2:27 PM, Tony Nance wrote:

On 3/27/25 9:39 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Efforts to decontaminate a radioactive zone on Barrayar produce
an entirely unexpected discovery.
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/yonder-stands-your-orphan

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I spend enough of my work time reading a screen that I don't enjoy
reading for pleasure on one. But works like this one -- not available on
paper to this point -- make me sorely tempted to put up with it anyway.
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Tony

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Ebooks are slowly killing all of the deadtree reprints. I hate ebooks.
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Lynn

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Well, you could always print it out yourself. Of course then it
wouldn't be "well bound" :-)

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Today I bought my seventh new Kindle, (three were for gifts), and the
only possible superior benefit of a dead tree book compared to an ebook
that I can think of is the cover staring back at you from the bookcase.
This 7 inch 300ppi power off screen shows the book cover but not in colour.
With regard to Tony's original point, I occasionally read short stories
on the PC screen which I find tiring but the Paperwhite Kindles screen
is clearer than real paper for me and not tiring. But I usually read
first and read the screen later in the day.

I read ebooks on my iPad. The Kindle app is annoying but usable. Apple’s
own Books is better that the Kindle app, not a high bar to pass. Other ebook
readers are available. My favorite, Marvin, is now dead. Pity. It seems that
calibre is not available for iOS/iPadOS for reasons of GPL, so it will
probably never be available. Its ebook reader was not the best, but it was
better than Kindle apps. Barnes &  Noble have killed Nook for Mac and older
Windows and Nook for newer Windows is only available from the Microsoft
store, ensuring that it will never be on one of my machines and that I will
never buy an ebook from B&N.