Just a little advertisement on the e-book-reader front -- Not Another E-Book (NAEB, which just happens to be Baen backwards) is getting in their second batch, tomorrow, of the Bookeen Cybook open-format reader, 6 oz and the battery lasts for 8000 page-turns, they say. They are currently taking orders at http://store.naebllc.com for their batch for May delivery. They are essentially a buyer's club and have negotiated a nice discount from Bookeen.
I know this because MINE is in this batch! so I am not excited, no of course not. I made bold to insert this ad because nonDRM devices need to be promoted, and Naeb are just a bunch of readers who got together and made themselves into a company to do it.
About your assignment, Kinzel, well of course you have to reread Local Custom and Scout's Progress very advertently. I should think that you can skim some in rereading the rest of the books that come after them, as long as you focus on picking up every reference to historical events. I mean, I don't THINK that there is very much about Val Con and Miri's daily life on Vandar you need, unless there are reminiscences on Val Con's part.
Chapbooks, now. I have never read all the chapbook stories in strict historical order, although I could now that I have the Big Bang e-collection. I'm sure some of those are important. And didn't you put little snippets in diary-extract at the chapter heads often? Some of those are probably very necessary.
But Hey, It's not my universe, I just vacation there (with very great pleasure), so what do I know? I look forward with glee to the outcome. And if one person doesn't remember history quite the way another does elsewhere, well, history's like that.
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ninetydegrees
Re: rereading
2008-04-10 22:21 (UTC)I know this because MINE is in this batch! so I am not excited, no of course not. I made bold to insert this ad because nonDRM devices need to be promoted, and Naeb are just a bunch of readers who got together and made themselves into a company to do it.
About your assignment, Kinzel, well of course you have to reread Local Custom and Scout's Progress very advertently. I should think that you can skim some in rereading the rest of the books that come after them, as long as you focus on picking up every reference to historical events. I mean, I don't THINK that there is very much about Val Con and Miri's daily life on Vandar you need, unless there are reminiscences on Val Con's part.
Chapbooks, now. I have never read all the chapbook stories in strict historical order, although I could now that I have the Big Bang e-collection. I'm sure some of those are important. And didn't you put little snippets in diary-extract at the chapter heads often? Some of those are probably very necessary.
But Hey, It's not my universe, I just vacation there (with very great pleasure), so what do I know? I look forward with glee to the outcome. And if one person doesn't remember history quite the way another does elsewhere, well, history's like that.
Abigail