|
Wedemeyer posted:Is there a website or something better the google to find pictures/scans of book covers? Like not just first editions, but later covers? I'm trying to find all my old books, but it's tricky since most of them have changed to a clone of Bella and Edward on the cover. https://www.librarything.com allows for users to upload cover images and, provided you aren't talking about something that has had literally thousands of covers (I'm looking at you, Huck Finn), you're pretty likely to find the one you're looking for.
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2010 03:12
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 26, 2024 19:47 |
|
|
I just put things on a shelf in whatever order looks nicest, though I do group all of a given author's work together.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 22, 2010 00:17
|
|
|
barkingclam posted:In all seriousness, just hit up goodwill or the salvation army for a used bookshelf. I don't see the point in dropping $60 on something new when you can pick up a used one for a third of the price. Yeah but if everyone took this advice, there wouldn't be any furniture in the used stores. Also, some people like buying new stuff. I'd much rather spend the extra money to get a nice set of new bookshelves, but then I'm at the point in my life where I'm a homeowner and I'm trying to move away from the bachelor lifestyle.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 22, 2010 23:13
|
|
|
rasser posted:I'll stop derailing and ask a question instead: How do you BB goons deal with the loneliness of your literaty taste, which I believe must be common for most of us? Several of my friends are interested in the same genres as me, but I'm the only one that spends the time to discover new authors. It's a continuous game of catch-up if I want to discuss anything I've read with them.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 24, 2010 03:16
|
|
|
angrylinuxgeek posted:The book I really want signed is a paperback. Is getting a paperback book signed a bad idea? Will people glare at me? Nobody cares what sort of book you bring to get signed so long as it is somehow tied to the person doing the signing. That said, I silently judge people that bring paperbacks (unless paperback is the only edition) because I'm kind of a dick.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 17, 2010 02:45
|
|
|
Chamberk posted:So, is anyone looking forward to books in the new year? Besides the previously mentioned Wise Man's Fear and Ghost Story, I'm also looking forward to The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, Ashes of a Black Forest by Chris Evans, and the new edition of Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 14, 2011 04:35
|
|
|
Let The Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist. Changed my post to that because it is a better idea. Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jan 22, 2011 |
|
#
¿
Jan 21, 2011 22:42
|
|
|
Quad posted:I'm going on vacation in a few weeks, and plan on powering through as much of Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard as I can in a cabin in Wisconsin. My summer read will scar me for life. A friend bet me $100 + the cost of the books that I couldn't read all of the Gor books before Dragon Con. There's a stack of them sitting about six feet from me. Let's compare scars in September 
|
|
#
¿
May 27, 2011 04:08
|
|
|
barkingclam posted:Anybody doing a big summer read? I'm thinking when I get some time, I'm going to finally start on Fielding's Tom Jones. A friend bet me I couldn't read all of the Gor books (or rather, the first 26) before Dragon*Con, so there's that for me. I am not particularly proud of it.  Err...I actually posted about that on the last page... Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Jun 23, 2011 |
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2011 03:18
|
|
|
Popular Human posted:
That's not even all of them, just the ones you can find without the naked woman on the cover (just look up one of the titles on Amazon to see what I mean). I think the biggest crime with this poo poo is that Norman is actually a pretty good writer; he has a ton of great ideas and is incredibly descriptive. He just lets that get buried in increasingly long diatribes that have absolutely no bearing on the plot and are full of crazy. From what I can gather, if you ignore the crazy, you go from skipping a handful paragraphs in the first few books to hundreds and hundreds of pages (per book) by the end of the series.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2011 14:00
|
|
I had no idea there were so many of those loving things. Who buys that poo poo? Other than you, of course.
|
Hey guys did you know that a woman can only truly be a woman when she is mastered by a man? Only 20 more books to go! 
|
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2011 17:41
|
|
|
Florida Betty posted:What are you getting if you win the bet? It'd better be something pretty nice. $175 ($100 bet + my half of the cost of the books back) and my friend has to prominently display the series in his living room for six months. It goes the other way if I lose. As you can see, I cannot allow myself to lose.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 24, 2011 18:53
|
|
|
polyfractal posted:How much would someone have to pay you to write a review for a book you just read? In exchange for getting the book for free? For $5? $10? $20? Screw that noise, you hate writing reviews? Unless you're writing the review for a major publication, you shouldn't get anything for your review beyond, perhaps, the free review copy of the book.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 25, 2011 19:52
|
|
|
Pompous Rhombus posted:I'm putting most of So long as you can keep them in a climate-controlled space, you should be fine just boxing them up (though it couldn't hurt to have some pest control measures). But if your folks move and just toss the boxes into Joes Super Storage or something... Well, they're in Florida. Start saving up to rebuy all your books. Saran wrap might work, but I don't know. Actually you may want to look in to some of those vacuum bag things that you hook up to vacuum cleaner.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2011 21:24
|
|
MY BOOKS
|
Mahlertov Cocktail posted:By the way, why doesn't Amazon have to tax their merchandise? This is a very hot political issue in a lot of states. Basically they're passing that task on to their customers, but almost no one actually reports purchases from Amazon on their taxes, so states are missing a fair chunk of revenue. The issue is that whenever a state tries to force Amazon to charge sales tax, Amazon just packs up and moves their distribution centers to another state. Eventually they'll be forced to tax everyone, but not until there are more states requiring it than not. quote:That's a pretty lovely sale for a chain of stores that's closing. This is how it goes for any major chain that goes out of business. They reset their pricing to MSRP, then take a percentage off of that. You won't find a good deal until the last few days they're open, but by then anything worthwhile will be gone because a staggering amount of people will overpay for books and DVDs simply because there's a sign saying "Store Closing Everything Must Go!"
|
|
#
¿
Jul 24, 2011 14:02
|
|
|
Wulfolme posted:inky smudges This reminds me of the poo poo dye that was used to color the binding for Wolves of the Calla. That poo poo gets everywhere when you read the book.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 1, 2011 02:47
|
|
|
That's far from an apex, it just means they're doing pretty steady business at that level so there's no need to bump up the discount just yet. We will eventually see 80% or more off, if only for a day or two.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 14, 2011 01:32
|
|
|
Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Barnes and Noble sells a pretty nice and reasonably priced collection of all of his work. I think it's just called H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. They're selling a newer version of this in-store, with that fake leather binding. It's $20 or $25.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 22, 2011 21:44
|
|
|
barkingclam posted:It's really cool the book of the month club is literally about books that nobody wants to read. What's October's category? In-Flight Magazines? What part of "awful" don't you understand?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 27, 2011 05:02
|
|
|
It's called the "Awful Book of the Month" not the "Something Awful Book of the Month." If you're upset or confused, it's your own fault for not reading A) the thread title and B) the second sentence in the OP ("In the Awful Book of the Month, we choose one work of
|
|
#
¿
Aug 28, 2011 02:34
|
|
|
Radio! posted:Speaking of Zelazny, I recently discovered that I own a signed paperback copy of Nine Princes in Amber (hooray used books!). But because I am a horrible person with negative dollars in my bank account, I want to look into selling it. Does anyone know how to find what the average price of such a thing would be? I trolled ebay for a bit but the price range was just ridiculous. I hate to poo poo on your dreams, but it's probably not worth a lot, unfortunately. The first and major strike is that it's a paperback, which means it's most definitely not a first edition (since that was hardcover and is stupidly rare). Next, since, again, it's a paperback, came from a used book store, and is at least 16 years old, I'm guessing it's not in great condition. Zelazny is popular, but he never attained the level where his signature alone commands high prices, regardless of what it's on. You need the signature on a first edition in fine condition to start raking in real money. I imagine if you could find a sucker, you could get $20 out of him - a collector probably wouldn't pay more than five to ten. For reference, the lowest-priced signed item on eBay is a PBO of Bridge of Ashes, and it's only going for $20. Granted, that isn't as popular a title as anything Amber, but even signed Amber hardcovers are going for less than $50 until you get into the limited edition stuff (and you're paying for that as much as the signature with those).
|
|
#
¿
Sep 6, 2011 14:16
|
|
|
Radio! posted:That's about what I figured. My friend is a huge Zelazny fan and offered to buy it immediately, so I didn't want to be a jerk and ask for a stupid amount of money. Thanks, though! Yeah, it's always nice to find little surprises like that. About ten years ago I picked up a cheap paperback copy of Damon Knight's The World and Thorinn to replace a copy I lost. About a year and a half ago I was entering stuff into LibraryThing and discovered that cheap paperback was signed by Knight. Not really worth much, but a very cool item to have.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2011 03:02
|
|
|
Admiral Ballsack posted:You may want to reconsider this request.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 22, 2011 19:52
|
|
|
Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I liked the Secret Service Vampire series. It's 2 books long, but they are both pretty good with the main character being a vampire who basically eats people and wrecks poo poo. I agree with your recommendation, but you're off a bit in your description; Cade doesn't eat people, it's a major plot point in both books. And apparently the third book is wrapped up and just awaiting dust jacket art, so it'll be out (probably) early next year. Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Nov 8, 2011 |
|
#
¿
Nov 8, 2011 22:39
|
|
|
C2C - 2.0 posted:Anyone know where I can find some Thomas Ligotti without paying an arm & a leg? I've bought the Teatro Grottesco and My Work Is Not Yet Done collections off of Amazon because they were both fairly cheap. Just about all of his other works seem to be in the $80 and up range. It's not due out until mid-2012, but the SubtPress edition of Noctuary is up for preorder at Amazon. If you want to find any of the other books for cheap, you're going to need to check eBay daily. Here are two I found tonight: Grimscrsibe paperback (there are several of these in the same price range, actually) Noctuary HC I should point out that there are some you just aren't going to find cheap. The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales and Death Poems, as well as anything he's done with Current 93, aren't even worth looking for if your budget isn't defined as "large".
|
|
#
¿
Nov 20, 2011 07:20
|
|
|
C2C - 2.0 posted:Thanks for the input, guys. I guess I'll just trawl Ebay for the time being and perhaps reserve the higher-priced tomes as special occasion purchases. Welcome to my world. Far too much quality horror/weird fiction exists only in the realm of the independent publishers and their tiny print runs  .
|
|
#
¿
Nov 21, 2011 03:04
|
|
|
barkingclam posted:Merry Christmas, all. Anybody get books this year? I got My Own Private Spectres by Jean Ray.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 27, 2011 15:53
|
|
|
H.P. Shivcraft posted:Unless there's a recent reprint I don't know about, I am guessing you got the 1999 limited run, in which case, drat, nice. Yep, it's the 1999 edition; it took the better part of two years for my finances to line up with an available copy. The only English-language Jean Ray book I'm missing now is Ghouls in My Grave and gently caress paying $100+ for a fifty-year-old paperback; I know copies have sold for as little as ten bucks, so it's mostly just a waiting game on that one.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 28, 2011 03:03
|
|
|
Hiro Protagonist posted:Does anyone know a good place to start with Charles Stross's material? Should I go Rule 34, Glasshouse, Saturn's Children, or something else entirely? The Atrocity Archives would be my recommendation. You could also start with one of his short story collections to get a kind of overview of how he writes different genres.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 31, 2011 07:37
|
|
|
CornHolio posted:I want a set of really nice-looking bookcases to hold these. Where the heck would I find something? You have three good options here. 1.) Build them yourself. Obviously only do this if you know what you're doing. 2.) Visit a furniture store. You say you're willing to spend some money, and places like Basset, Ashley, Haverty's, and so on will be more than happy to help you with that. They have some pretty fancy book cases, but they can get pricey very, very quickly. 3.) Visit an unfinished wood store. These may be called something else in your area, but basically it is a store that will build you stuff to your specifications - essentially you're paying someone else to perform option 1. This is my recommendation because you're going to get exactly what you want. I find that bookshelves bought from furniture stores are often way too deep - there's no need for a shelf to be 24" deep when 99% of hardbacks are only about nine inches. Having your shelves custom-built also allows you to incorporate wild poo poo like UV-blocking glass and whatnot.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 6, 2012 20:52
|
|
|
Joramun posted:4.) Burn them all and get a Kindle. Biggest space-saver ever. Nowhere in his post did he mention anything about space-saving. Some people like to have large collections of books and show them off  .
|
|
#
¿
Jan 6, 2012 21:03
|
|
|
I've never seen a website with a good recommendation system. Your best bet is to find people that have read the same books as you and have rated them similarly, then see what else they've read.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 7, 2012 04:03
|
|
|
You can get a free ebook from Chizine right now if go you here and follow the instructions. They publish horror and weird fiction.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 13, 2012 20:19
|
|
|
I'd like Good Reads a lot more if every self-published "writer" with a fantasy or horror novel would quit trying to friend me. Yes, I have a passing acquaintance with a few competent writers. No, I won't read your book and recommend it to them.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2012 03:20
|
|
|
Heath posted:Creased spines bother the poo poo out of at least a few people I know, and I'm curious what your opinions are about it? I've drat near mastered the art of reading paperbacks without creasing the spine at all, provided they aren't too terribly thick. That said, I generally don't care if a paperback is creased to hell because to me, it's a reading copy; it's meant to be abused. The one exception I make is for paperback originals - first edition/first printings that were in paperback format rather than hardcover (the first six Dresden Files books, for example, had PBOs). However, such concerns are pretty squarely in the realm of collecting, and not a lot of people care too much about that.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 9, 2012 23:57
|
|
|
I thought the point of mass market paperbacks is that they're cheap and essentially disposable. If you want a durable book, buy a hardcover.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 19, 2012 18:27
|
|
|
futile posted:Well they're also cheaper*. There's nothing wrong with wanting to buy a cheap paperback and keep the book in decent shape beyond a first reading. Plus it's a nuisance to read a book when the cover and pages are tearing off, bent, and dirty. I guess it depends on how cheap we're talking here. If you're paying full price for paperbacks, you'd really be better served making the switch to eBooks. If you're getting them for a quarter a piece at Goodwill, then you could probably just buy another copy for the same price as any sort of protector.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 20, 2012 01:50
|
|
|
A used bookstore that doesn't accept hardcovers is a fairly new concept to me. All the local ones that I visit only stipulate that you need to have a dust jacket, but the last time I was up in DC every one I went to only accepted paperbacks or big-name new releases in hardcover. That largely defeated the purpose of me going since I like to look for those rare finds that the bookstores don't know they have, and those are almost always hardcovers  .
|
|
#
¿
Mar 20, 2012 02:03
|
|
|
It helps to skip every other chapter.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 29, 2012 02:22
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 26, 2024 19:47 |
|
|
Pick posted:Does anyone know the rules for book copyright pre-1978? I want to share some scans from a kid's book from the early 50s (which hasn't been re-printed since) but I know TBB has an anti- You'd have to PM a mod to get the specific rules for the forums, but here's how the law goes: quote:In the United States, all books and other works published before 1923 have expired copyrights and are in the public domain. In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country. So there's probably a decent chance that book is in the public domain.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 30, 2012 14:02
|
|