The Reading Vent & Rant Thread - Page 151

Hitch · 11-08-2023, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by astrangerhere

I'm a washed up academic - I love a good footnote. And I especially like the ease with which I can navigate to them on my Kobo.

I have always loved footnotes and don't see that changing anytime soon. ( I might make an exception for that monstrous Churchill book, however. Whoever did that mess should be hung.)

Hitch

ownedbycats · 11-08-2023, 12:04 PM

Lewisohn's Beatles biography (some 2500 pages and just the first volumn) is 20% footnotes. Most were just "ibids" but there were enough interesting bits in there that I didn't want to skip them.

Freeshadow · 11-10-2023, 06:14 PM

the most known adventure series for kids in Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomek_Wilmowski is choke full of footnotes with actual info regarding flora fauna and history
I loved it. Edutainment pure.

Renate · 11-11-2023, 07:38 AM

Chock full of footnotes...

I tried to read "Casino Royale" as that 007 has made its mark on culture and I thought that reading one (the first) wouldn't kill me.
I'll mark it as DNF. Ok, it's 70 years old and I don't think it aged well at all.
The edition I read even had a disclaimer that some anachronisms (which?) were altered.
Spoiler alert: Mr Bond bores us with explaining the game of baccarat, then plays same. Then gratuitous violence, sadism, murder.

John F · 11-11-2023, 08:01 AM

When you're sure you've read a book. Watch the series on Netflix and don't think the TV series and nothing rings a bell, and then find out you didn't actually read the book.

theducks · 11-11-2023, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by John F

When you're sure you've read a book. Watch the series on Netflix and don't think the TV series and nothing rings a bell, and then find out you didn't actually read the book.

That is why I remove Sample chapters (I just leave the basic reminder: soon...) .
I don't have enough toe to count all the times I suckered myself that way.

ownedbycats · 11-11-2023, 04:39 PM

My cat likes to take over my reading chair.

JSWolf · 11-11-2023, 05:36 PM

When you buy an eBook and the listing mentions nothing about it being useless because it's fix-layout. There's a thread where someone was having trouble converting an eBook bought from Amazon and it turns out to be fixed-layout. The listing says nothing about this.

maddz · 11-12-2023, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

When you buy an eBook and the listing mentions nothing about it being useless because it's fix-layout. There's a thread where someone was having trouble converting an eBook bought from Amazon and it turns out to be fixed-layout. The listing says nothing about this.

Happened to me on a DrivethruBooks release. Luckily it was brand new and the author added an ePub2 version as well as the original ePub3 version.

ownedbycats · 11-12-2023, 10:07 AM

Searching for series on the Kobo store is a pain.

theducks · 11-12-2023, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Searching for series on the Kobo store is a pain.

It is mostly broken. click in the series name under the title in the (general) list and Not found

Open a member of the series , same issue...
BUT scroll down and the 'in this series' thumbs work

Come on Rakuten: Your reader devices support series better than you US website

(I rarely shop by series, which is why I had not noticed until you pointed that out )

Tarana · 11-12-2023, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Renate

Chock full of footnotes...

I tried to read "Casino Royale" as that 007 has made its mark on culture and I thought that reading one (the first) wouldn't kill me.
I'll mark it as DNF. Ok, it's 70 years old and I don't think it aged well at all.
The edition I read even had a disclaimer that some anachronisms (which?) were altered.
Spoiler alert: Mr Bond bores us with explaining the game of baccarat, then plays same. Then gratuitous violence, sadism, murder.

All depends on what you like. I just checked my Goodreads - marked it 5 stars in 2017, so obviously I liked it as I would read it again. For some of these older thrillers, you have to put yourself into the time in which they were written. Published in 1953 - WW2 ended only a few years earlier and he worked in British Intelligence during that period. The books were really popular with my Dad while my Mom didn't like them (and she likes horror). We like what we like.

JSWolf · 11-12-2023, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by maddz

Happened to me on a DrivethruBooks release. Luckily it was brand new and the author added an ePub2 version as well as the original ePub3 version.

Where the ePub version no longer fixed layout?

ownedbycats · 11-12-2023, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Where the ePub version no longer fixed layout?

fixed-layout ePubs are always, or almost always, ePub3.

JSWolf · 11-12-2023, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

fixed-layout ePubs are always, or almost always, ePub3.

But if it works as ePub2, then get rid of the ePub3.

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11-08-2023, 12:04 PM	#2252
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,360 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Lewisohn's Beatles biography (some 2500 pages and just the first volumn) is 20% footnotes. Most were just "ibids" but there were enough interesting bits in there that I didn't want to skip them.

11-10-2023, 06:14 PM	#2253
Freeshadow temp. out of service Posts: 2,818 Karma: 24285242 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Duisburg (DE) Device: PB 623	the most known adventure series for kids in Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomek_Wilmowski is choke full of footnotes with actual info regarding flora fauna and history I loved it. Edutainment pure.

11-11-2023, 07:38 AM	#2254
Renate Onyx-maniac Posts: 4,125 Karma: 18764971 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Nook NST, Glow2, 3, 4, '21, Kobo Aura2, Poke3, Poke5, Go6	Chock full of footnotes... I tried to read "Casino Royale" as that 007 has made its mark on culture and I thought that reading one (the first) wouldn't kill me. I'll mark it as DNF. Ok, it's 70 years old and I don't think it aged well at all. The edition I read even had a disclaimer that some anachronisms (which?) were altered. Spoiler alert: Mr Bond bores us with explaining the game of baccarat, then plays same. Then gratuitous violence, sadism, murder.

11-11-2023, 08:01 AM	#2255
John F Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,006 Karma: 71261339 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Kobo Clara 2E	When you're sure you've read a book. Watch the series on Netflix and don't think the TV series and nothing rings a bell, and then find out you didn't actually read the book.

11-11-2023, 04:39 PM	#2257
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,360 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	My cat likes to take over my reading chair.

11-11-2023, 05:36 PM	#2258
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,786 Karma: 150249619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	When you buy an eBook and the listing mentions nothing about it being useless because it's fix-layout. There's a thread where someone was having trouble converting an eBook bought from Amazon and it turns out to be fixed-layout. The listing says nothing about this.

11-12-2023, 10:07 AM	#2260
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,360 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Searching for series on the Kobo store is a pain.

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