The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[Cactus Chef]

Note to future self: do not decide you are going to track down every book in a long-running series just because they go on sale frequently, without checking whether you actually enjoy the series first.

I bought like 3 collections of Witch World novels by Andre Norton, spanning 11 novels total, and after finishing just the first two from the original trilogy I really don't think I like this series at all.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by issybird

For all the complaints about US sales taxes (which are by state/locality) added at the time of purchase, at least you know exactly what you're paying in tax. I live in a tax-free state myself so I admit there's a certain element of "I wuz robbed" when I buy elsewhere, but I know what to expect. It's also why two of my sisters have their online purchases sent to my house. And ending up with a rant, albeit not a reading rant: their carp tends to pile up.

Tell them that you are going to sell or donate their carp if it isn't picked up within 30 days of delivery.
Apache

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Apache

Tell them that you are going to sell or donate their carp if it isn't picked up within 30 days of delivery.
Apache

Or just have the carp for dinner.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Or just have the carp for dinner.

I have a recipe for baked carp stuffed with plums if you're interested.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by maddz

I have a recipe for baked carp stuffed with plums if you're interested.

Give that recipe to issybird as she has the carp.

[Martinoptic]

Watch you don’t get carp(eted)

I have to say that Maddz’s recipe sounds as if it could be rather nice.

Back to reading rants: typos on the first page of a book, particularly factual ones. A history book said the Battle of Hastings was in 1606!

[icallaci]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Note to future self: do not decide you are going to track down every book in a long-running series just because they go on sale frequently, without checking whether you actually enjoy the series first.

This, exactly. I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who does this.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Martinoptic

Watch you don’t get carp(eted)

I have to say that Maddz’s recipe sounds as if it could be rather nice.

Back to reading rants: typos on the first page of a book, particularly factual ones. A history book said the Battle of Hastings was in 1606!

A typo (or other factual error) that early in a book is an automatic bail for me.

[nabsltd]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Note to future self: do not decide you are going to track down every book in a long-running series just because they go on sale frequently, without checking whether you actually enjoy the series first.

I've started several long-running series that I enjoyed the first N books, and then done the track down, but took a while to get book N+1, and when I finally did, found out that's when the series started the downhill slide.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Note to future self: do not decide you are going to track down every book in a long-running series just because they go on sale frequently, without checking whether you actually enjoy the series first.

I've done the same thing!

I bought like 3 collections of Witch World novels by Andre Norton, spanning 11 novels total, and after finishing just the first two from the original trilogy I really don't think I like this series at all.

Yeah, I read The Sioux Spaceman and enjoyed it. But I don't think I'm an Andre Norton fan.

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by nabsltd

I've started several long-running series that I enjoyed the first N books, and then done the track down, but took a while to get book N+1, and when I finally did, found out that's when the series started the downhill slide.

Yes, I try not to buy more than one book ahead in a series any more unless I'm really certain. They'll probably go on sale again.

[maddz]

Simultaneous device usage not enabled on purchased Kindle books. It now means the download can't be imported into Calibre, the metadata updated, and the file sideloaded onto my Kobo.

I have a bunch of old Regency romances in paperback which I'd like to switch to ebook - but can't because of this. I don't own a Kindle and have no desire to; I would have to purchase and register an old e-ink Kindle to use the download-and-transfer-via-USB functionality (and how long before that gets cut off).

[ownedbycats]

In the first book of a cozy mystery series well over a dozen books, a character went (paraphrased from memory) "Thank God these kinds of things don't happen very often in [fictional small town]."

I cackled.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

In the first book of a cozy mystery series well over a dozen books, a character went (paraphrased from memory) "Thank God these kinds of things don't happen very often in [fictional small town]."

I cackled.

At least Miss Marple travelled.

[rkomar]

Originally Posted by Quoth

At least Miss Marple travelled.

Thank goodness she had about a hundred nieces.