If you have Calibre (free download) you can download off Gutenburg or whatever onto your computer or pad, then translate into the standard for your chosen reader, transfer into the device. I've done it for over two hundred books, and it works.
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dask
dark and stormy knight
Thanks for the info. The thing I don't want to do is read large quantities of print off my desktop. Otherwise I'd have gotten a microfiche machine a long time ago. No matter how John W. Campbell raved about it back then it sounded horrible. But if I could get a little hand-held or small tablet it'd almost be worth it for the archives, or the Gutenberg thingy. Need to check out Calibre. I've heard of it but don't know exactly what it is or what it does.
Even as a real book reader I kinda wish page 403 went the way of 404.
Even as a real book reader I kinda wish page 403 went the way of 404.
Getting back to hauls I had quite a good Saturday.
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe - I already have (like many here) a collection of Poe's Stories and Poems but this Penguin Black Classic collection also includes over 100 plus pages of Poe's correspondence and another 100 pages of Critical Principles and Observations along with the usual introduction, chronology and annotated text. Good value. Apparently this 'anthology' was last published in 1945.
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays - James Wood *Woods is one of my favourite literary critics, so this should be a thoughtfully entertaining and wide ranging read.
Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose and Rose Alchemica - W.B. Yeats *Dover Thrift continue to produce some interesting and highly affordable stuff. Blurb: Written in the musical speech of the poet's home region of Kiltartan, County Galway, this collection of stories centers on country schoolmaster Red Hanrahan and his supernatural experiences. William Butler Yeats recounts "The Twisting of the Rope," "Red Hanrahan's Curse," "Hanrahan’s Vision," and other enchanting tales.
Additional fables include those of The Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica, featuring Yeats's personal interpretations of Celtic mythology and occult legends
The Jew's Beech - Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff *Another welcome addition from Alma Classics. Droste-Hülshoff is one of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century and this novella is her only completed work of prose fiction Blurb: Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history.
A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny - ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgängers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest - as well as a famously ambiguous climax.
Jaberwocky and Othe Nonsense Collected Poems - Lewis Carroll *I have some of Caroll's other works including Jaberwocky but not a collection like this. A nice Penguin Black Classics edition. Blurb: Lewis Carroll wrote verse throughout his life, for fun and to give pleasure to his friends and family. This is the first collected and annotated edition of his poems, bringing to light a fresh array of his verses including childhood rhymes, favourites from the Alice books, parodies, satires, riddles, nonsense and later works such as Sylvie and Bruno. Imbued with high spirits, wit and sometimes sadness, these verses show Carroll's imagination at its most subversive.
Bombay Stories - Saddat Manto*I've never heard this name before but according to Salman Rushdie he is 'the undisputed master of the modern Indian short story"..and that's good enough for me. This edition is published by Vintage. Blurb: Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like no other. A metropolis for all, and an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. A journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Manto is best known as a master of the short story, and Bombay was his lifelong muse. Vividly bringing to life the city’s seedy underbelly—the prostitutes, pimps, and gangsters that filled its streets—as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame, here are all of Manto’s Bombay-based stories, together in English for the very first time. By turns humorous and fantastical, Manto’s tales are the provocative and unflinching lives of those forgotten by humanity.
And last but not least...
Skylight - Jose Saramago *This is a lost and apparently forgotten...or should that be misplaced? manuscript by one of my favourite Latin American (actually Portuguese) writers and previous Nobel Prize winner. I had collected all of the late Saramago's translated works, so it was a pleasant surprise to discover this newly published 'lost' manuscript. Blurb: Called ‘the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English.
Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music; and the beautiful typist whose boss can't keep his eyes off her. Poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip and love Skylight brings together all the joys and grief of ordinary people.
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe - I already have (like many here) a collection of Poe's Stories and Poems but this Penguin Black Classic collection also includes over 100 plus pages of Poe's correspondence and another 100 pages of Critical Principles and Observations along with the usual introduction, chronology and annotated text. Good value. Apparently this 'anthology' was last published in 1945.
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays - James Wood *Woods is one of my favourite literary critics, so this should be a thoughtfully entertaining and wide ranging read.
Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose and Rose Alchemica - W.B. Yeats *Dover Thrift continue to produce some interesting and highly affordable stuff. Blurb: Written in the musical speech of the poet's home region of Kiltartan, County Galway, this collection of stories centers on country schoolmaster Red Hanrahan and his supernatural experiences. William Butler Yeats recounts "The Twisting of the Rope," "Red Hanrahan's Curse," "Hanrahan’s Vision," and other enchanting tales.
Additional fables include those of The Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica, featuring Yeats's personal interpretations of Celtic mythology and occult legends
The Jew's Beech - Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff *Another welcome addition from Alma Classics. Droste-Hülshoff is one of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century and this novella is her only completed work of prose fiction Blurb: Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history.
A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny - ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgängers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest - as well as a famously ambiguous climax.
Jaberwocky and Othe Nonsense Collected Poems - Lewis Carroll *I have some of Caroll's other works including Jaberwocky but not a collection like this. A nice Penguin Black Classics edition. Blurb: Lewis Carroll wrote verse throughout his life, for fun and to give pleasure to his friends and family. This is the first collected and annotated edition of his poems, bringing to light a fresh array of his verses including childhood rhymes, favourites from the Alice books, parodies, satires, riddles, nonsense and later works such as Sylvie and Bruno. Imbued with high spirits, wit and sometimes sadness, these verses show Carroll's imagination at its most subversive.
Bombay Stories - Saddat Manto*I've never heard this name before but according to Salman Rushdie he is 'the undisputed master of the modern Indian short story"..and that's good enough for me. This edition is published by Vintage. Blurb: Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like no other. A metropolis for all, and an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. A journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Manto is best known as a master of the short story, and Bombay was his lifelong muse. Vividly bringing to life the city’s seedy underbelly—the prostitutes, pimps, and gangsters that filled its streets—as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame, here are all of Manto’s Bombay-based stories, together in English for the very first time. By turns humorous and fantastical, Manto’s tales are the provocative and unflinching lives of those forgotten by humanity.
And last but not least...
Skylight - Jose Saramago *This is a lost and apparently forgotten...or should that be misplaced? manuscript by one of my favourite Latin American (actually Portuguese) writers and previous Nobel Prize winner. I had collected all of the late Saramago's translated works, so it was a pleasant surprise to discover this newly published 'lost' manuscript. Blurb: Called ‘the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English.
Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music; and the beautiful typist whose boss can't keep his eyes off her. Poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip and love Skylight brings together all the joys and grief of ordinary people.
Mangara
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Made it to Barter Books - Alnwick
Picked up:
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Zoo City Lauren Beukes
Antartica Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
The City and the City China Mieville
King Rat China Mieville
The Kraken Wakes John Wyndham
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
The Worm Ouroboros E.R. Eddison
Mythago Wood Holdstock, Robert
Jennifer Government Barry, Max
Picked up:
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Zoo City Lauren Beukes
Antartica Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
The City and the City China Mieville
King Rat China Mieville
The Kraken Wakes John Wyndham
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
The Worm Ouroboros E.R. Eddison
Mythago Wood Holdstock, Robert
Jennifer Government Barry, Max
dask
dark and stormy knight
No facsimile this time but the real deal and cheaper than the Gernsback facsimiles posted earlier (yeah yeah, I know, supply and demand). The cigarette ads on the back covers are more than precious, they're sacred. Especially the one with the talking pack of Lucky Strikes that tells us flat out, "I do not irritate your throat." Captain Eric Loch in another ad assures us "Camels give me a 'lift' in energy when I am weary or feeling low."
Who needs doctors on the payroll with first hand testimonies like these?
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Just received a box of books to see me through 2 weeks in a remote yurt in Southern France in what appears to tbe the least populated commune in the least populated Departement of that fine country.
It has been a long and rather tiring year, so I am not asking too much of my literature over the fortnight:
Railsea China Mieville
On Basilisk Station David Weber
Fevre Dream George RR Martin
Costume Not Included and Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes I have enjoyed Hughes' Vance-esque Hengis Hapthorne stories. These books are the second and third in a trilogy starting with The Damned Busters, which I found amusing:
After accidentally summoning a demon while playing poker, the normally mild-mannered Chesney Anstruther refuses to sell his soul... which leads through various confusions to, well, Hell going on strike. Which means that nothing bad ever happens in the world - and that actually turns out to be a really bad thing.
There's only one thing for it. Satan offers Chesney the ultimate deal - sign the damned contract, and he can have his heart's desire. And thus the strangest superhero duo ever seen - in Hell or on Earth - is born!
It has been a long and rather tiring year, so I am not asking too much of my literature over the fortnight:
Railsea China Mieville
On Basilisk Station David Weber
Fevre Dream George RR Martin
Costume Not Included and Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes I have enjoyed Hughes' Vance-esque Hengis Hapthorne stories. These books are the second and third in a trilogy starting with The Damned Busters, which I found amusing:
After accidentally summoning a demon while playing poker, the normally mild-mannered Chesney Anstruther refuses to sell his soul... which leads through various confusions to, well, Hell going on strike. Which means that nothing bad ever happens in the world - and that actually turns out to be a really bad thing.
There's only one thing for it. Satan offers Chesney the ultimate deal - sign the damned contract, and he can have his heart's desire. And thus the strangest superhero duo ever seen - in Hell or on Earth - is born!
Extollager
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Arrived today, the book with the dullest cover of any that I own:
These give essays that were presented at a mid-century Oxford discussion club, in which prominent speakers for various philosophical persuasions appeared by invitation to speak their piece and defend it afterwards.
A replacement copy of a book I had as a college freshman many years ago --
--which looked like the above, unlike the replacement copy. : (
These give essays that were presented at a mid-century Oxford discussion club, in which prominent speakers for various philosophical persuasions appeared by invitation to speak their piece and defend it afterwards.
A replacement copy of a book I had as a college freshman many years ago --
--which looked like the above, unlike the replacement copy. : (
Extollager
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Today arrived The Best of Entmoot, a 1970 fanzine drawing on the four issues of the late Greg Shaw's noted Tolkien fanzine.
There's a thread on vintage Tolkien fanzines here:
http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/547043-vintage-tolkien-fanzines.html
Some of you younger Chrons people might not know what a fanzine was... or have heard of mimeograph machines....
There's a thread on vintage Tolkien fanzines here:
http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/547043-vintage-tolkien-fanzines.html
Some of you younger Chrons people might not know what a fanzine was... or have heard of mimeograph machines....
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Picked up this little gem today at a charity sale in Wilkos.
Edited by Brian Aldiss it contains classic stories by Asimov, Eric Frank Russel, John Steinbeck and Bertram Chandler etc! I never knew Chandler strayed into SF!
Edited by Brian Aldiss it contains classic stories by Asimov, Eric Frank Russel, John Steinbeck and Bertram Chandler etc! I never knew Chandler strayed into SF!
As far as I'm aware, Bertram Chandler predominantly wrote SF. Looks like a good collection.
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He was probably thinking of Raymond.
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JunkMonkey
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Not Bing?
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Bing?? Crosby?
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What's that got to do with Raymond Chandler? I fail to see a connection
Bridges Jones... [I'll get my coat]
Best to get back to book hauls though, methinks - the lounge is the probably the place for this kind of lunacy?
Best to get back to book hauls though, methinks - the lounge is the probably the place for this kind of lunacy?
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