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Jun 12, 2011 12:48

The Endurance/Shackleton chantey went over extremely well at the Chantey Sing--a couple of people professed to find it quite moving, and the folks at the afterparty even requested an encore. I am always talking up the chantey sing to people, and it is awesome, but I suppose the afterparty is a big part of why I'm so enamored of it. The same couple ( Read more... )

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isabelknight June 12 2011, 20:04:57 UTC

I hear you on the qualms about Kindle books (or really, any electronically published book). I've mostly been dealing with my profound discomfort with the book licencing thing by only purchasing the types of books I couldn't get in real-book form. I have a handful of books by living authors put out by major publishers that leave the uncomfortable feeling you describe on my nook. I stopped buying those on the nook because it did frustrate me that it was usually more expensive and less convenient to have them in electronic format than as a physical book ( ... )

ceph June 13 2011, 01:55:08 UTC

Where do you go to find awesome e-only/long-out-of-print books? I'm looking to build up my electronic library.

Amazon will, for some textbooks, sell you the print version and then throw in an e-version for a nominal extra fee. I wish they'd do that for every book with a Kindle version; buying the paper book for $10 and getting the Kindle book for an extra $3, or whatever, would seem a lot more worth it. But perhaps there's not much demand for that.

isabelknight June 13 2011, 03:00:33 UTC

I've been using the B&N store for the nook, so I've found e-only books mostly through lj, where people post reviews of independent books, and if they sound good, I buy them through B&N (who gets them from smashwords, where I should go directly, but I'm lazy). Long out of print stuff I found by searching for the author or title in the B&N store. They'll have cleaned-up versions for sale at various prices (the more work went into formatting them tidily and the more editorial material - intros, commentary, and the like - is included, the more they cost) but there's often a free scan from the google books project or similar program available through the store as well. The free scans often have some weird character issues where the transliteration software couldn't read a smudged letter correctly and decided it was something else, so they're good enough to read for pleasure, but not good enough to use as your source if you're writing a paper for publication. That's how I got hold of the works of M.R. James, actually ( ... )