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Old 12-30-2020, 01:02 AM   #31
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Sounds like a compilation of a serialised story.

If published as a single volume, should have all the recaps edited out.
That would be a better enhancement than bolding speech.
Might ask the writer(s) if they want that, it might make a saleable book out of it.

I think Twilight started as online fanfic...
No, Twifright started as a dream. (cough cough). 50SoG started as Twifright Fanfic.

Which just goes to show you--proof positive, Fanfic can be dangerous to your health.

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Old 12-30-2020, 07:33 AM   #32
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No, Twifright started as a dream. (cough cough). 50SoG started as Twifright Fanfic.

Which just goes to show you--proof positive, Fanfic can be dangerous to your health.

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Old 01-01-2021, 02:42 PM   #33
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Actually, a bunch of your people came over to America and brought the language with them and then they decided it needed improving so they improved it. Leaving the language not nearly as good back home.
As recently as when I was in college, there was an island off the North Carolina coast whose inhabitants spoke an evolved form of Elizabethan English. And the hillbillies of the Appalachians still sometimes use terms brought over by the Scots-Irish (Northern Irish Planters) such as Bodacious for "outlandish," being a corruption of Queen Boadicea.

I'm with those who hold that boldfaced conversation is about the worst idea ever advanced in self-publishing, with the possible exception of the Canadian gent who formatted his first paperback in Courier, decided the type was a bit light (which of course it was), and therefore did a Control-A and changed the whole book to boldface.
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Old 01-02-2021, 01:15 AM   #34
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As recently as when I was in college, there was an island off the North Carolina coast whose inhabitants spoke an evolved form of Elizabethan English. And the hillbillies of the Appalachians still sometimes use terms brought over by the Scots-Irish (Northern Irish Planters) such as Bodacious for "outlandish," being a corruption of Queen Boadicea.
NJ, when you were in college, Elizabeth I was still the Queen. :-)

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Elizabeth I is still the Queen in Scotland, as the English Elizabeth I was before Scotland and England had the same King,

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James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.
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That Elizabeth was never ever Queen of Scotland.
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... with the possible exception of the Canadian gent who formatted his first paperback in Courier, decided the type was a bit light (which of course it was), and therefore did a Control-A and changed the whole book to boldface.
Antony Horowitz: Magpie Murders
I'm struggling. Whose stupid idea was it to have the first half of the book in something like monospace courier. Published in 2016.

I know the idea is that the first half of the book is allegedly by Alan Conway. Remind me when Agents and Publishers switched from wanting typed MSS, to Times Roman printouts or files?

Did no reviewer with an ARC say, "Nice idea, but ditch the monospace font?"
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN PAGES of monospace font! Yet fully justified, so looks a bit like a fake monospace font, because it's not actually monospaced due to the justification varying letter spaces.
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Elizabeth I is still the Queen in Scotland, as the English Elizabeth I was before Scotland and England had the same King,

That Elizabeth was never ever Queen of Scotland.
Right. I should have remembered. :-)

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Antony Horowitz: Magpie Murders
I'm struggling. Whose stupid idea was it to have the first half of the book in something like monospace courier. Published in 2016.

I know the idea is that the first half of the book is allegedly by Alan Conway. Remind me when Agents and Publishers switched from wanting typed MSS, to Times Roman printouts or files?

Did no reviewer with an ARC say, "Nice idea, but ditch the monospace font?"
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN PAGES of monospace font! Yet fully justified, so looks a bit like a fake monospace font, because it's not actually monospaced due to the justification varying letter spaces.
The eBook of Magpie Murders is not in monospace.
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The eBook of Magpie Murders is not in monospace.
I'm hardly going to buy the ebook as well as the paper version, but actually the paper version is so hard to read I've been tempted.

Besides even if the ebook version was ghastly, I'd know how to fix it!

Thanks for the tip, JSWolf. I'll check the price.

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Print List Price: £8.99
Kindle Price: £5.90

Save £3.09 (34%)
includes VAT*
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
This price was set by the publisher.
* Unlike print books, digital books are subject to VAT.
A) Why is there STILL no Kindle site/market place for Ireland?
B) I thought UK abolished VAT on ebooks?

There is apparently an option for Irish addresses to transfer their Kindle to USA Marketplace, but that might make some titles unavailable.

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Print List Price: $10.00
Kindle Price: $3.99
Save $6.01 (60%)

Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
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$3.99 vs £5.90!

The UK isn't in the EU either.

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I'm hardly going to buy the ebook as well as the paper version, but actually the paper version is so hard to read I've been tempted.

Besides even if the ebook version was ghastly, I'd know how to fix it!
I did that with The Corner by David Simon. It was bloody long, and the paperback that I'd ordered was somewhere between 600 and 800 pages, if memory serves, but OMG, they must have typeset it in 9pt font. I wear progressive glasses, so that I'm not toting 3 pairs of specs around with me (reading, driving and now Telly), and trying to read the paperback was a nightmare. I was constantly moving either my head or the book, trying to keep the text crisp enough to read. After an hour of that, I'd have headaches or neck-aches or something-aches.

I finally just clicked and bought the goddamned thing in Kindle, so that I could read it without all the physical gyrations and aggravation. Worked a treat. :-)

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And indeed, unlike the crazy "concept edition" paper version, the version bought for a Kindle Keyboard gen 3 is perfect. On my Kobo Libra.
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I once thought I'd aced a trivia question: "Who is the only other reigning monarch in the British Commonwealth of Nations?" I answered Elizabeth I of Scotland, but it seems that the test compilers didn't know that, because it was a wrong answer.
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