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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
One of the best ways to thank me is... to not call me Jimmy.
Just a pet peeve from childhold.  I started using 'jimm' (Jim + last initial) 20 odd years ago when I started a new job and the user name 'jim' was already taken. |
I don't know why, for some reason, maybe because of the X, even though I know it's JimmX, I think Jimmy. Have since I first was on the boards, I'll try not to make that mistake again.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
I just tried that and the existing book being hidden in the current VL made no difference--still detected as already in the library.
If you have a series of steps to duplicate the problem, I'd love to hear about it. So far, all I have is hearsay that any problem even exists.
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I know it's happened to me several times, (at least 6) I'll see if I can't replicate it. It's usually only a few books since it (generally) has only happened when I use the email update and was using the library for something else before. I'll spend some time on it this week when I have time. It's never really bothered me, just an annoyance that I figured was my mistake, and that's why I suggested maybe that was the problem.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
In the next test version.
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Excellent.
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I (obviously) don't have a problem helping make fanfiction easier to read--neither the authors nor the sites have any great moral high ground to stand on. And I've made it a point to never accept money for FFF or FFDL.
But I worry mildly about the legality of all these Wuxia sites in general. As far as I know, these are translations of published works, not fanfiction, yes? Are the original authors/publishers getting paid for them?
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I obviously don't know the legality of all the sites, I'm not a lawyer, never wanted to be one. Though my cousin is, he's spent so many hours reading such dry crap I don't know if I'd survive.
I'm not sure about the authors getting published for them, but I know there is some setup for some of it having to do with the amount (chapters?) published on some of the sites, I read something about it quite a while back. I don't know if it's just the translator that makes the revenue though, I don't recall if it spoke about how much the original author made for translated work. *But* there is generally some sort of agreement with the authors before it's actually translated - so I'm sure they make some sort of revenue.
However, the original chinese/japanese/korean sites have some pretty draconic rules about who owns the work and how it's published. Plus, as I understand it they generally have a really weird setup that's a combination of number of words (which is why there's a LOT of long stories and lots of repeating the same thing chapter after chapter), visits and frequency of publishing.