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Old 02-25-2014, 11:49 AM   #16
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Nothing's missing. I like things the way they are. I have more choice than I'll ever use in my lifetime.
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Old 02-25-2014, 12:32 PM   #17
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Nothing's missing. I like things the way they are. I have more choice than I'll ever use in my lifetime.
Yes, yes. But what would you rather OTHER people appreciate more of?
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Old 02-25-2014, 01:27 PM   #18
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Old 02-26-2014, 08:03 AM   #19
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I wish science fiction would make a real comeback. Even in film it's a seldom seen genre.
Yeah. One of the problems with science fiction at the moment is categorising it. Just look at any ebook store and you'll find that science fiction categories range from the dubious to the absurd. I think Amazon even categorises steampunk under science fiction. While I'm sure there are a few industrial era science fiction books that might appeal to steampunk readers, the central idea of the genre is to ignore the progress of science and have fun with zepplins and steam engines.
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Old 02-26-2014, 02:17 PM   #20
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Old 02-26-2014, 04:08 PM   #21
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I don't know about literature itself but it would be nice if Amazon would put the text to speech option back in its ereaders. The k3 had it and I don't know why Amazon took it out when the brought out the PaperWhite. I think ereaders in general should have that as a feature.
They probably took it out of the later Kindle readers because they now also own Audible.

Professionally read audiobooks are much better than TTS books, but for quite some people, TTS might be just good enough. These people wouldn't pay the higher prices for the audiobooks.
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Old 02-27-2014, 06:46 AM   #22
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Yeah. One of the problems with science fiction at the moment is categorising it. Just look at any ebook store and you'll find that science fiction categories range from the dubious to the absurd. I think Amazon even categorises steampunk under science fiction. While I'm sure there are a few industrial era science fiction books that might appeal to steampunk readers, the central idea of the genre is to ignore the progress of science and have fun with zepplins and steam engines.
Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, and I have my HG Wells and Jules Verne books to back me up on this
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Old 02-27-2014, 06:48 AM   #23
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If we're talking about literature as in litfic, I'd like to see Modernism taken out behind the barn and finally put out of it's misery.
I'd like to see the same happen to people who put apostrophes in possessive pronouns . Honestly, is it REALLY so difficult to remember that "it's" is an abbreviation for "it is" or "it has", and that "its" means "belonging to it"?
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Old 02-27-2014, 09:58 AM   #24
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They probably took it out of the later Kindle readers because they now also own Audible.

Professionally read audiobooks are much better than TTS books, but for quite some people, TTS might be just good enough. These people wouldn't pay the higher prices for the audiobooks.
I would agree if they had taken out TTS but kept audio, but they deleted audio entirely. It is likely that Amazon removed audio capacity from the e-ink readers because it saved money, and not that not enough people were buying e-ink readers to listen to audiobooks to justify the added cost of the audio equipment.
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Old 02-27-2014, 10:07 AM   #25
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I'd like to see the same happen to people who put apostrophes in possessive pronouns .
I think its something thats causing people to overreact. Its not that big a problem. If an entire group of people had it's apostrofe placement wrong, thatd be cause for concern, but I think their iceolated incident's. Eye for one place most of the ape-ostrophe's correctly, and dont make to many spelling mistakes, fortunately. Too bee honest, eye'm ferry proud of that

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Sorry. Couldn't resist

(I do sometimes make style blunders, such as putting the first part of the sentence in the past, and the second part in the present. Hail to copy and paste and careless editing of posts! )
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Old 02-27-2014, 10:29 PM   #26
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I can't imagine how I could ever be familiar enough with the hundreds of thousands (or is it just tens of thousands?) of fiction books released annually to say something was missing from the content. So my content answers have to be in terms of non-fiction topics not covered.

We have a child living in Taiwan and have been been reading books on the island's history. There are not enough that are well-researched, highly readable, and in English.
First off I would have said everything was good enough. But you made me think dammit.

There is a definite shortage of books both fiction and non about other (non-English speaking) cultures. Even a fiction book written by a non resident or a translation, provides some insight into lives and lifestyles we are unfamiliar with. Many good ones exist but not enough and not many for some cultures.

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I would like to see more of European fantasy and sci-fi translated into English. Especially Russian, Polish, Ukraine, Czech, Bulgarian, Romanian etc. Eastern Europe mainly.
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Old 02-28-2014, 10:33 AM   #28
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Digitize more out-of-print books and make them cheap.
I agree with this.

Also books need to be more consistent, with the characterizations and details. It's troubling to see how details mentioned earlier in the book don't match up with the latter part because you'll be wondering what happened with that.
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I take it that the Original Post asks what's missing in books/literature in general, and in that broad sense, I don't have anything to indicate because it varies with the specifics.

There are books where everything is perfect except that the protagonist lacks a backbone. Or like I said earlier the characterization is off. Or there's problem with the editing.

There are books where everything is perfect, period.

I guess we can all determine all of that after reading a particular book, not to speak as a whole.
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There are books where everything is perfect except that the protagonist lacks a backbone.
I don't think we should necessarily criticise books about invertebrates merely for that reason.
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