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Old 03-27-2023, 03:35 PM   #1081
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I think it's well worth spending money on a modern translation of 19th century and earlier books...
That's an interesting point. Sometimes I think the reverse.
I read "The Adventures of Mr. Quixote" in the translation from Tobias G. Smollett.
I would never read an English book in a second language, but I often read a book in a third language translated into my second language in preferrence to my first.
Mmm, this is beginning to sound like Abbott and Costello.
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Old 03-27-2023, 03:42 PM   #1082
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I have a PDF strategy guide published by a German game developer. They forgot to translate a few paragraphs from German. The PDF file security doesn't let me copy the text so I can put it into a translator.
Actually the paragraph you highlighted IS translated! They just didn't remove the German version! (It's the next English paragraph). Maybe that's true for the other German paragraphs as well?
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Old 03-27-2023, 09:56 PM   #1083
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This happens all the time with Amazon: I'm looking for a book with public domain translations, which I don't want. I think it's well worth spending money on a modern translation of 19th century and earlier books; overall the translation reads more smoothly and there are helpful annotations.

But even if I pull up the paper copy of the edition I want (just now it was a Penguin), clicking on the related Kindle link takes me to one of those public domain translations that someone is charging $1.99 for. Why can't Amazon get this right? In fact, I bet they have the Penguin Kindle book, but I can't be bothered to put more effort into finding it.
Add the translator to your search.

Yeah, you shouldn't *have* to.
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Old 03-28-2023, 11:24 AM   #1084
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Why did the Barnes & Noble website make me put in credit card information when trying to buy a free book?
Did you already have an account? I recently downloaded a freebie from B&N with no info required but I did have an (inactive) account from ages ago. If there was a CC attached to it I can guarantee it's no longer valid.

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Old 03-28-2023, 07:50 PM   #1085
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Did you already have an account? I recently downloaded a freebie from B&N with no info required but I did have an (inactive) account from ages ago. If there was a CC attached to it I can guarantee it's no longer valid.

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Old 03-29-2023, 06:22 AM   #1086
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This might not actually be a rant, since it could be doing me a favour, but it does highlight a bête noir of mine - historical romances that don't bother trying to be historical. For that reason, this blurb in a debut work offered at Koobo might have exactly the opposite effect to that intended

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Old 03-29-2023, 07:18 PM   #1087
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That awkward moment when an Overdrive loan becomes finally available and you have no memory of putting it on hold to begin with
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Old 03-29-2023, 09:13 PM   #1088
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That awkward moment when an Overdrive loan becomes finally available and you have no memory of putting it on hold to begin with
I've had that happen with ereaderIQ alerts.
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Old 03-30-2023, 04:02 AM   #1089
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That awkward moment when an Overdrive loan becomes finally available and you have no memory of putting it on hold to begin with
My library card expired (sometime in 2020) and I couldn't renew it (due to a policy change) at the Free Library of Philadelphia and I still get emails saying a title I recommended was purchased, and a book I had on hold is available for checkout (even though I never access the account anymore).
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Old 03-30-2023, 11:16 AM   #1090
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My library card expired (sometime in 2020) and I couldn't renew it (due to a policy change) at the Free Library of Philadelphia and I still get emails saying a title I recommended was purchased, and a book I had on hold is available for checkout (even though I never access the account anymore).
Oof. Can you turn off the emails from that library?
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Old 03-30-2023, 05:57 PM   #1091
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Oof. Can you turn off the emails from that library?
Good idea, I'll have to check.
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Old 03-30-2023, 07:08 PM   #1092
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When the plot seems to be resolved yet you're only 80% of the way through a book.

Maybe around 10% of the time this is some super-long chapter preview of another book. The other 90% it's because one of the characters decided to be an idiot and drag out the plot even more.
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Old 03-30-2023, 07:43 PM   #1093
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When the plot seems to be resolved yet you're only 80% of the way through a book.

Maybe around 10% of the time this is some super-long chapter preview of another book. The other 90% it's because one of the characters decided to be an idiot and drag out the plot even more.
Previews get deleted here before reading with all the other fillers (ads, review begging etc). So in my case it's always the idiot characters.

I've had books where there were 6-8 preview chapters from several different books. No idea what the author/publisher was thinking. Were they that desperate to sell more books??? That's one of the reasons no book will get on my ereader without editing.
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Old 03-31-2023, 05:32 AM   #1094
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Previews get deleted here before reading with all the other fillers (ads, review begging etc).
Previews were worth while nearly 20 years ago before sample downloads, look inside etc. Maybe still some value on paper, but I decided pointless now on ebooks. Just a blurb, link and QR code to site with samples is enough?
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Previews were worth while nearly 20 years ago before sample downloads, look inside etc. Maybe still some value on paper, but I decided pointless now on ebooks. Just a blurb, link and QR code to site with samples is enough?
I delete all ads, blurbs and links to other books. If I like the author, I'm perfectly capable of finding their other books myself, and if I don't, no ad will make me buy more.
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