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Don't bother with Time Traders as the entire series is not available as eBooks since the series switched publishers.
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05-23-2008, 11:51 AM | #17 |
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pilotbob, yes, it's a stand-alone book.
wallcraft, ``better formatted'' is arguable --- the .pdf I made doesn't have any stacks, orphans or widows, and if read 2-up (I formatted it initially for my Fujitsu Stylistic 2300) the facing pages base align. William |
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I was comparing MOBI versions, i.e. better formatted than the MOBI version on the web site (which for example has no TOC).
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For the search, you need to wait a little while before your Kindle finish indexing everything. It'll work once it's indexed. If you'd like to browse SF or Fantasy only, I'd recommend using the mobile website instead. Inside the Kindle Guide if you click on Fantasy or Science-Fiction you'll be redirected to the right page, or you could use the browser and open the following URI: http://feedbooks.mobi Although you can't filter with multiple types while browsing, you can already make advanced search queries. In the search field you could for example enter: type:"Fantasy" author:"Kadrey" You could enter multiple types this way too. I need to extend the number of results you can get from the search (I'll let the user select a value and use multiple pages to display them). |
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Andre Norton's SF and the Heinlein juveniles were what got me into SF in the late 1960s - I can still picture that particularly exciting shelf in the local children's library. Haven't seen them for years, but they're now on the virtual read-pile of my iLiad. I wonder if I'll still enjoy them? |
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Baen have recently released quite a few of Heinlein's "juvenile" books. I still find them great reading, personally - echoes of a more "innocent" age. Having said that, though, I'm a big fan of juvenile fiction anyway, so others might not share my tastes.
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I've started reading the Baen Books version of Time Traders, and discovered that it's been revised for this edition, as compared with the old out-of-copyright version available on feedbooks. Just minor things -- the bad guys are no longer the Soviets, but a resurgeant "Greater Russia", and there are rather less atomic-powered vehicles (probably a good thing!). Presumably this is to make them tie in better with the new volumes; it certainly makes them feel less dated. Volume 6, Echoes in Time, is available as an ebook, though not from Baen (I've spotted it on Fictionwise and Books On Board), but not volumes 5 and 7.
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Most seem to be relatively minor edits, tho. Jason |
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Time Traders while a good series is one of those really annoying series. You can get into it and then you hit a brick wall as you'll then have to purchase pBook editions as not all are eBooks. If you don't mind, go for it. If you mind, give the series a miss. I've read the first two books so far and am still deciding if I want to continue.
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