03-28-2023, 10:12 AM | #6946 |
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Your iPhone has a small screen (physical size). Plus, the Kindle app has such wide margins that you really don't have much space left for the images.
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03-28-2023, 01:53 PM | #6947 |
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You can long press on images and it'll pull up the full-sized image sans margins. Then you can do normal pinch/spread zooming on them.
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03-28-2023, 03:47 PM | #6948 | |
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Beyond the Burn Line by Paul McAuley is $1/£1/€1 in the US, UK, EU. (Amazon US, Amazon UK, Kobo US, Kobo UK).
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03-28-2023, 06:01 PM | #6949 | |
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Cool. I didn't remember the first one, and I pity you for the second . Our company, for some reason lost in the mists of my husband's grandfather's time, has April 1 as its tax year start day, and that's bad enough. I can't even imagine April 6.
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03-31-2023, 04:19 AM | #6950 | |
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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang is $3 in the US
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03-31-2023, 06:20 PM | #6951 |
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Vallista, currently the latest book in the Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust, is on sale at Amazon for $2.99. Presumably this is to promote the upcoming release of book 16 in the series.
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04-02-2023, 10:27 AM | #6952 |
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A Symphony of Echoes (Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 2) by Jodi Taylor $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
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04-02-2023, 12:41 PM | #6953 |
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Many books that were finalists of SPFBO (Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off) between 2015 and the present are on sale for $1 each.
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04-02-2023, 03:36 PM | #6954 |
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Master of Furies by Raymond E. Feist is just £0.99 at Amazon UK at the moment. This is the third volume in his new trilogy.
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The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon.com).
Second book in the Culture series by publication order, but (speaking as somebody who's not yet read any Culture books at all) I understand that the “series” is more of a “setting”, i.e. the books can be read in any order – no need to read Consider Phlebas (first published Culture novel) before The Player of Games. If you ask the web, some people apparently rate The Player of Games as the most accessible entrance to the setting. (Others, of course, have other choices.) Quote:
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As I said, I haven't read any yet, so I really appreciate you sharing your perspective. I picked up The Player of Games today but I'm currently reading the first Uplift book so I won't be getting around to the Culture ones quite yet – maybe Consider Phlebas will go on sale before I do. Thanks!
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I never suggested that it is anywhere near the best (it's not, by a lot), only that it has a place in a set of books that otherwise have no order to them.
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