The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by theducks

Time is of the essence in these cases.

In Nova Scotia, there was one case where a teenager was known to be missing with an adult for nearly a week before they sent an Amber alert... in the middle of the night? If you're going to wait this long, at least wait until people are awake to send it out. (the whole case was pretty mishandled by the RCMP, honestly.)

[issybird]

Back on topic, please.

[Deskisamess]

Lack of basic research in books is so frustrating. I stopped reading a book that started off with a tornado in Texas farm country. The 3 sisters took grease pencils and fly masks and ran out to their barn to write their phone number on the horses and put their fly masks in place, before setting them free.

Then they drove to a neighboring farm ½ mile away to do the same to the horses, pigs, and chickens at that farm. Because you know you have time for that when a twister is touching down.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Deskisamess

Lack of basic research in books is so frustrating.

The number of books even in later 20th C where if someone gets cold and wet they automatically get a cold. Jane Austen wasn't a reference work writer.

Or a blow on the head or punch knocks someone unconscious without other medical issues.

No-one ever seems to try stripping the insulation with scissors on a cut telephone wire and twisting the ends together. The polarity doesn't matter.

Calling an electric shock an electrocution (potential injury vs death).

Instant knock-out drugs or darts don't exist (or police wouldn't use real bullets). At least one novel I read had an author's note at the end that the instant knockout dart was fantasy, but he left it in because it was fun That's sort of reasonable.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Instant knock-out drugs or darts don't exist (or police wouldn't use real bullets).

Yeah. The whole premise of Dexter (the TV series, at least - I haven't read the books) was built on the existence of such drugs.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Yeah. The whole premise of Dexter (the TV series, at least - I haven't read the books) was built on the existence of such drugs.

Of course if you are a Komodo dragon?

Allegedly they can bite a prey animal and then follow it maybe for days wait for it to die from the infection.

So if you are being followed by a Komodo and you have a scratch it's best to get a course of antibiotics.

[nabsltd]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Instant knock-out drugs or darts don't exist

There are many drugs that can render you unconscious in less than 5 seconds (which isn't instant, but would be fast enough for something like a kidnapping), but all require an intravenous injection.

Maybe an incredibly lucky dart shot would work.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by nabsltd

There are many drugs that can render you unconscious in less than 5 seconds (which isn't instant, but would be fast enough for something like a kidnapping), but all require an intravenous injection.

Maybe an incredibly lucky dart shot would work.

Really? None when I researched a few years ago. Also likely the body weight is needed to decide the dose. Also even fatal nerve agents take more than 5 seconds.



It's also why they shoot large animals wandering in urban areas etc, even in UK or Ireland.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by nabsltd

There are many drugs that can render you unconscious in less than 5 seconds (which isn't instant, but would be fast enough for something like a kidnapping), but all require an intravenous injection.

Look into Rapid Sequence Intubation - the goal is to get the patient knocked out as quickly as possible to get them intubated.

[issybird]

It's annoying that Kindle (and Audible too for that matter) doesn't let you mark a book unread and erase any reading progress. The best you can do is go to the beginning, but it still looks like a book in progress. I have so many books marked with that idiotic 1% that I'm not reading! And the only possible reading status is either unread or read; there's no way to differentiate between not started and in progress.

[nana77]

I was wondering why there are not available options as digital subscriptions for some ebook series (outside Kobo Vip, in my case), while on physical versions those options are there already.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by nana77

I was wondering why there are not available options as digital subscriptions for some ebook series (outside Kobo Vip, in my case), while on physical versions those options are there already.

I'm not sure what you mean by physical vs. digital versions and digital subscriptions? Do you mean support on an ereader compared to support in a reading application? Ebooks vs. pbooks? An auto-purchase wishlist?

[ownedbycats]

Yeah, I not understand post either.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by nana77

I was wondering why there are not available options as digital subscriptions for some ebook series (outside Kobo Vip, in my case), while on physical versions those options are there already.

Because you cannot keep a copy of the pBook. Where with the digital version unless there is DRM you cannot remove, you could keep a copy for yourself.

[nana77]

E.g. "magazine subscription" .
"I forgot to renew my magazine subscription."
Digital subscription for one year, to pay early and save 15$.
LOL "Because you cannot keep a copy of the pBook."?