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Yes, it's surprising, but I've answered the question you've all been earnestly pondering: what's the difference between the Penguin and Oxford editions of Polybius?

Comparing the Penguin and Oxford editions of Polybius

Quick note: these editions are divided into large sections termed as books, so if I refer to a ‘book’ then that effectively means what most ...
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Thad's on a roll!


@Dan Jones press ganged me to do some content while he gallivants around the place with his family

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Guest Blog by Peat Long: Let the Truth Lie

My name’s Peat and Dan’s asked me to write a post for him while he goes skiving off to the wilderness with his family. I gladly agreed as it seemed the ideal opportunity to give a response to a pos…
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My video review on the new Kobo Elipsa. I perform an in-depth demonstration of it's note-taking capabilities using 6 criteria. And answer why authors, student's and anyone who writes on paper, should 'take note' of it's capabilities.

  1. Likelihood to lose the pen
  2. Boot speed to ‘write-ready’ state
  3. Note-Taking experience
  4. Handwriting conversion effectiveness
  5. Ease of transfer to computer
  6. Annotations of documents

Link here -> Kobo Elipsa Note-Taking Review
 
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Friday Five: My Cat Wants Under The Couch Edition

Hello all. This morning, Murray came up to me and indicated he might like some food. He seems very enthusiastic about the idea. So I fed him, left him to it, and went to fix the couch. You see, my …
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Thud by Sir Terry Pratchett

(some spoilers, particularly in second time reader) A confession. I have long believed that the City Watch series peaked with Night Watch and that the books after it are, in a way, superfluous. Whi…
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I'm publishing a novella, called The Gigantomachy Of Antonios Costas, on my blog. It's kind of a Lovecraftian Indiana Jones style adventure story set in Athens. It follows two Greek academics who embark upon an archaeological dig to find ancient Greek treasures and antiquities after a giant sinkhole appears in the centre of the city. Of course, down in the darkness they find a great deal more than they bargained for. I'll publish a chapter a week over the next 13 weeks.

Chapter 1 - The Gigantomachy Of Antonios Costas
 
Juliana said:
I took a brief look at different types of backstory. I may also have had a bit too much fun naming them... ;)

What’s Your Backstory?
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Really enjoyed this one! Never really thought of it all this way but it makes a ton of sense.

A pedantic thought - "just like Budapest" comments can be removed without harming the narrative, but I do think their removal harms the story as it removes something of a sense of wonder and connection. It's like how removing a sauce from a meal doesn't harm the ingredients - and you might never feel the need for it if you never knew it existed - but once you have it, you know it makes things better and removing it makes things worse.
 
The Big Peat said:
A pedantic thought - "just like Budapest" comments can be removed without harming the narrative, but I do think their removal harms the story as it removes something of a sense of wonder and connection. It's like how removing a sauce from a meal doesn't harm the ingredients - and you might never feel the need for it if you never knew it existed - but once you have it, you know it makes things better and removing it makes things worse.
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I agree 100%! You don't NEED them in a story, but personally I love these little throwaway bits of the past. :)

(And thanks for the nice comment!)
 
Just posted Chapter 2 of my novella The Gigantomachy of Antonios Costas.


Juliana said:
I agree 100%! You don't NEED them in a story, but personally I love these little throwaway bits of the past. :)

(And thanks for the nice comment!)
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I also liked this post very much. The Budapest line reminds me of the backstory between Indy and Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark - there are a couple of lines like, "I was a child! I was in love!" - "You knew what you were doing." And that's it! That's all we get, yet it adds a very real dimension to their relationship, and their chemistry is all the greater for it (perhaps it's telling that the other "Indy girls" in Temple of Doom and Last Crusade are met "en route" during the adventure and thus didn't have that element of backstory for the writers to play with).
 
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