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Old 07-15-2014, 10:04 AM   #16
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And a good price per book as well. At 11 books (currently) if you pay $12 that comes to $1.09 per book which isn't a bad price I think. I'm sure that as separate books they would each cost a good deal more than that.
Encounter with Tiber alone costs $7.69 over at Amazon so that's a savings of $6.60 + tax on that one book alone.
Yup, and that's one of the books in the bundle I really wanted.
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One thing I found interesting is that by loading the books into Calibre and reconverting them as (old) mobi files the size of the book files shrinks considerably. Before hand the 11 books took up almost 60 MB of space. After conversion they take up under 10 MB of space. Encounter with Tiber alone is almost 19 MB before conversion and drops to just under 3 MB afterward.
This is likely due to both the loss of the embedded fonts and it's probably reducing the image resolution (not always a good thing) depending on your device settings. Open Road uses a lot of images in many of their books.
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This is likely due to both the loss of the embedded fonts and it's probably reducing the image resolution (not always a good thing) depending on your device settings. Open Road uses a lot of images in many of their books.
Well I've been reading a bit of my reconverted copy of "Encounter with Tiber" on my Paperwhite and haven't noticed any problems with text or picture quality as yet.
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Two new books have been added...

Budayeen Nights by George A. Effinger
Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
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Budayeen Nights by George A. Effinger
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Thanks - I'll update the OP
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Budayeen Nights by George A. Effinger
Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
Nice! So how do I get them? I already bought the bundle before they were added.
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Nice! So how do I get them? I already bought the bundle before they were added.
Log in to the website and they'll be in your library or following the link in the order email should work too (the one that says Humble Bundle URL and Please save this email).
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Log in to the website and they'll be in your library or following the link in the order email should work too (the one that says Humble Bundle URL and Please save this email).
Thanks, I figured it out.
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How many books on average do they add to a Bundle?
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How many books on average do they add to a Bundle?
Between 0 and several are added usually, so there is no real way to guess how many they will add.
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I think that might be the lot this time round. Previously it said there were more coming, and now it doesn't.
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I think that might be the lot this time round. Previously it said there were more coming, and now it doesn't.
Well at 13 books for $12.00 that comes to .92 per book which isn't bad. It's obvious that they aren't superstitious. lol.
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