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What are EU people's non-Amazon options now? I used Wordery but they stopped delivering outside the UK after brexit
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# ? May 4, 2021 19:41 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 07:45 |
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American eBay hasn't let me down for secondhand books, and I presume European eBay is comparable. For new books, I like to order directly from the publisher's site, which also probably works just as well in Europe.
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# ? May 4, 2021 19:53 |
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Ras Het posted:What are EU people's non-Amazon options now? I used Wordery but they stopped delivering outside the UK after brexit Antikka.net, antikvaari.fi, kirjapino.fi, and finlandiakirja.fi Oh and adlibris.com, but it's kind of poo poo. E: clicked on a link for a bookshop I'd never heard about, saw that it had a separate section for "profane books", and noped the gently caress out when I realized what that meant. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 01:52 on May 10, 2021 |
# ? May 4, 2021 20:06 |
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Can anyone recommend a small business book store with a robust website I could use to order books from instead of Amazon? If not, I'd settle for an affiliate amazon link. In the South, maybe New Orleans or Mobile, would be ideal, but otherwise anywhere in the USA is fine. I already googled my area and the only private book store I know of doesn't have a web site. I asked my irl friends and we've all just bought books on Amazon for decades, oops.
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# ? May 13, 2021 16:33 |
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Jack B Nimble posted:Can anyone recommend a small business book store with a robust website I could use to order books from instead of Amazon? If not, I'd settle for an affiliate amazon link. In the South, maybe New Orleans or Mobile, would be ideal, but otherwise anywhere in the USA is fine. I already googled my area and the only private book store I know of doesn't have a web site. I asked my irl friends and we've all just bought books on Amazon for decades, oops. BetterWorldBooks and HalfPriceBooks are my go-to sites. BookShop.org may have a local offering near you, but I haven’t found it helpful for my city.
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# ? May 13, 2021 16:44 |
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Jack B Nimble posted:Can anyone recommend a small business book store with a robust website I could use to order books from instead of Amazon? If not, I'd settle for an affiliate amazon link. In the South, maybe New Orleans or Mobile, would be ideal, but otherwise anywhere in the USA is fine. I already googled my area and the only private book store I know of doesn't have a web site. I asked my irl friends and we've all just bought books on Amazon for decades, oops. Depending on your definition of "small" (they have several storefronts/warehouses locally but they're not, like, Barnes & Noble) Powells.com has a good online store.
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# ? May 13, 2021 17:46 |
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Jack B Nimble posted:Can anyone recommend a small business book store with a robust website I could use to order books from instead of Amazon? If not, I'd settle for an affiliate amazon link. In the South, maybe New Orleans or Mobile, would be ideal, but otherwise anywhere in the USA is fine. I already googled my area and the only private book store I know of doesn't have a web site. I asked my irl friends and we've all just bought books on Amazon for decades, oops. https://www.indiebound.org/
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# ? May 13, 2021 18:27 |
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Garth Marenghi makes a good point: https://twitter.com/MrHolness/status/1392876751924219910?s=20
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# ? May 13, 2021 18:28 |
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Tbh, there are maybe 5 good book covers in the history of publishing. They are worse than film posters, which are already almost universally poo poo
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# ? May 13, 2021 21:03 |
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Neil Gaiman has actually recently paid Robert McGinnis, a classic illustrator of this type of pulp covers who's now 95(!!!) years old, to paint covers for all of his books. They're pretty dope. More here: https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/tagged/robert-mcginnis
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# ? May 13, 2021 22:18 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:Tbh, there are maybe 5 good book covers in the history of publishing. They are worse than film posters, which are already almost universally poo poo Have you ever even seen a book?
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# ? May 14, 2021 00:51 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Have you ever even seen a book? I have seen the book club bookshelves that my parents have
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# ? May 14, 2021 01:23 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:I have seen the book club bookshelves that my parents have Other books are available. e: Here, for instance - now this is art: 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 01:30 on May 14, 2021 |
# ? May 14, 2021 01:28 |
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I was pitched by a friend to use the Biblio.com. Website, which is basically exactly Abebooks model, but (afaik) not (yet) owned by Amazon. Other than that, I use Powell's for any non-sf books, and my hometown's SF bookstore Dreamhaven books for horror/scifi. They also have a bitching collection of vintage smut. Lots of 'She was a bad girl...' sorts of stuff, which sadly is expensive and collectible. Makes for great gifts though... The Tenement Kid
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# ? May 14, 2021 02:27 |
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The book cover as lock screen feature on Kindle has finished rolling out today, any remotely recent device should see it under device options after a restart while connected to the internet.
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# ? May 17, 2021 17:17 |
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Aardvark! posted:The book cover as lock screen feature on Kindle has finished rolling out today, any remotely recent device should see it under device options after a restart while connected to the internet. Ayyyy. I've been waiting for this since I saw it on the Kindle subreddit like a month ago. Figures I'd check it a few times today and then find out about it coming here. The staggered rollout for such a seemingly simple thing seems really odd.
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# ? May 17, 2021 17:36 |
https://twitter.com/DreadCentral/status/1396243543845396482?s=20
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# ? May 23, 2021 00:38 |
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I'm reading Empire of Pain right now, about the Sackler family and the Oxy crisis they started, and it's really good, very Godfather in a way -- an immigrant patriarch comes to America and makes a name for his family in the 1920's through hard work, only to see his descendants ruin it through ambition and cruelty. The research is deep and the prose is straight-forward in a way I wish fiction writers would take up. I'd be happy to make a thread about if there's enough interest.
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# ? May 31, 2021 20:27 |
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Does anyone know a book about the Yugoslavian experience in WW2 that is not written by a British person, that does not have some particular stance to it??
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 02:28 |
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All British history writers are bad and should be thrown in a volcano, even the "good" ones
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 02:29 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:All British history writers are bad and should be thrown in a volcano, even the "good" ones I started reading a British (cultural) history book that was published to coincide with a BBC television series, and it pretty much started like this: Book: See these African statues? Me: Yeah yeah they're cool tell me about them! Book: I think we can all agree that they are literally poo poo that came out of someone's bumhole, when compared to European art! Me: Wät? e: I think it was Kenneth Clark's Civilization, but possibly not. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jun 1, 2021 |
# ? Jun 1, 2021 03:16 |
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Hey someone somewhere (possibly ITT) said that 2010 was more a sequel to 2001 the movie than the novel. Is this true? Because I have 2010 and I've only seen the movie so that would be perfect.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 22:35 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Hey someone somewhere (possibly ITT) said that 2010 was more a sequel to 2001 the movie than the novel. Is this true? Because I have 2010 and I've only seen the movie so that would be perfect. Yes, in the book 2001 they go to Saturn instead of Jupiter, but in 2010 it’s Jupiter like the movie. I think Clarke said that each Odyssey book was really its own continuity and not strictly connected to the others.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 00:41 |
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Action Jacktion posted:Yes, in the book 2001 they go to Saturn instead of Jupiter, but in 2010 it’s Jupiter like the movie. I think Clarke said that each Odyssey book was really its own continuity and not strictly connected to the others. OK, cool. Currently I'm lmaoing at how really loving awkward Cradle is. I'm really hoping that's Lee's doing not Clarke's. After I finish that and 2010, I'll only have one more science-fiction book left to read (Dune Part II). e: Also the cover is way cool:
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 00:57 |
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It's practically stand alone and only somewhat a sequel. The feel and aesthetic is worlds apart from 2001, especially the movie version of 2001. It's very straightforward and safe, albeit still very good -- a solid but forgettable 3 out of 4 star sci fi flick. But hell, s3e08 of Twin Peaks feels more like a 2001 sequel then does 2010.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 00:59 |
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regulargonzalez posted:out of 4 e: OK Cradle was way creepy, and the creepy bits weren't even interesting. Or relevant in any way. Beginning to see why my sister discarded it. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Jun 3, 2021 |
# ? Jun 2, 2021 01:02 |
https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1401335814257250309?s=20
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# ? Jun 6, 2021 01:31 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLUdKoCganU
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# ? Jun 6, 2021 01:40 |
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I've been meaning to get the Penguin clothbound of this one as part of my "let's own a copy of every book we ever really enjoyed and get rid of the others" initiative.
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# ? Jun 6, 2021 01:57 |
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Which one of you recommended the novel Wanderers by Chuck Wendig? I know for a fact it was someone on this message board who told me to read it. I'm 9% of the way through and this is just terrible. I paid money for this book! I mean I'm still going to read the whole thing, I just want to warn people away from it.
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# ? Jun 7, 2021 04:49 |
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I was reading about the lawsuit between Tom Clancy's widows, and they very first thing that seemed strange to me was that Clancy transferred the rights for The Hunt for Red October to the US Naval Institute in 1984. Apparently there was another author (Stephen Coonts) who did the same and also had to enter into mediation with the USNI to get his rights back. Has Clancy ever said why he gave them the rights in the first place? I can't find anything on this because all of the search results are about later rights issues over the Jack Ryan character separately, and about the fight between the widows.
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# ? Jun 7, 2021 08:06 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Which one of you recommended the novel Wanderers by Chuck Wendig? I know for a fact it was someone on this message board who told me to read it. I'm 9% of the way through and this is just terrible. I paid money for this book! I mean I'm still going to read the whole thing, I just want to warn people away from it.
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# ? Jun 7, 2021 17:25 |
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I'm 4ecd3dq reading horror novellas and they're all just making me chuckle at best. I guess the lovely fever I got from the jab might be to blame.eb E: ok I'm pretty sure a storyl about a guy whose ex-wife finds out he thinks he's dating Kylie Minogue, and in the end it's revealed he's dating Kylie Minogue, isn't actually horror, and the book is just mislabelled. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jun 9, 2021 |
# ? Jun 9, 2021 21:45 |
https://twitter.com/nataliesurely/status/1405960843481726978?s=20
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# ? Jun 19, 2021 00:22 |
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Just read one of the shortest novellas I've encountered outside of Örkeny, and it amused me for some reason:quote:Mutiny of the Carpets (Bagge, Tapani. Hukkareissu. Turku: Turbator 2013. [Translation mine]) e: I've been reading a lot more novellas this year than ever before, really. Fits my "be reading five books at all times" technique. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Jun 20, 2021 |
# ? Jun 20, 2021 03:22 |
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Some of those books are great, especially the biographies.
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# ? Jun 22, 2021 06:41 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Which one of you recommended the novel Wanderers by Chuck Wendig? I know for a fact it was someone on this message board who told me to read it. I'm 9% of the way through and this is just terrible. I paid money for this book! I mean I'm still going to read the whole thing, I just want to warn people away from it. How bad? The premise sounds close Stephen King's The Stand.
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# ? Jun 23, 2021 17:59 |
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Started reading The Clan of the Cave Bear and boy does the whole ancestral memory thing sound stupid as gently caress. How did this become a best-seller series? e: Oh gently caress Auel's into phrenology big time stylee lmao. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jun 24, 2021 |
# ? Jun 23, 2021 23:50 |
3D Megadoodoo posted:Started reading The Clan of the Cave Bear and boy does the whole ancestral memory thing sound stupid as gently caress. How did this become a best-seller series? I think mostly it ws the (relatively ) graphic sex scenes, though I haven't read it since I was like 13.
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 00:42 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I think mostly it ws the (relatively ) graphic sex scenes, though I haven't read it since I was like 13. Oh, poo poo, haven't got to any caveman sex scenes yet. I will probably hate them. I'm only in like chapter four in the first book and I already kinda prejudiciously loathe the whole series
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 00:51 |