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What specifically does Mobi lack when all you need in a book is headlines, paragraphs, bold, italic, and normal words?
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Incidentally, I bought the book. Lord knows when I'll read it. I'm midway through the never-ending For Whom The Bell Tolls, then I'll likely read Stephen King's Revival. So many books, so little time...
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Now that Christopher Tolkien, who is now in his mid 90's, has relinquished control of the Tolkien literary estate, many have expressed a hope that the family will open up to either allowing, or perhaps hiring writers to novelize many of the earlier parts of the Tolkien universe, or at least open up the material for movies and TV. It's going to be very interesting to see if Amazon's miniseries dips into that material for their LOTR prequel mini-series, or if much of it is made up whole cloth. One hopes the former, but we will see. |
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I'd say it was more cause, than any excuse on his part.
Could be due to senility or dementure etc for all we know. He also always seemed to me, to be pretty meticulous with his writing. Last edited by Timboli; 08-27-2019 at 09:13 PM. |
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