Comments | hypatia: shiny news in the mail tray

hypatia

shiny news in the mail tray

Jan 16, 2008 00:26

http://www.orbitbooks.net/matter-extract

Will they change the format again...more uneveness on the bookshelf.

Comments 8

bfrb January 16 2008, 06:03:31 UTC

Probably, but it's going to be the first Banks hardback I buy, so for me it's a certainty.
I'm *not* waiting an extra year...

hypatia January 16 2008, 09:33:19 UTC

You were in fact the very person I was thinking of...however I don't see myself hanging around for PB either.

bfrb January 16 2008, 19:43:17 UTC

Mind you, some of his recent SF stuff hasn't been great, so, he's loitering around the last chance saloon.
Here's hoping...

coughingbear January 16 2008, 08:57:13 UTC

Oooh! (Am hoping someone I know will buy the hardback so I don't have to.)

hypatia January 16 2008, 09:34:16 UTC

Well I will be if young Marcs Nelius is going to be a sluggard about getting it read ;)

renarde January 16 2008, 10:36:22 UTC

Yay! New book.

Boo! Hardback. Despite my impatience, I won't buy it: I'm not lugging the bloody thing on the train. No, not even for Banks, love him though I do. I'll stick with me knittin', and wait for the paperback. :)

hypatia January 16 2008, 23:33:25 UTC

I haven't seen one of those Amazon ebook gizmos which are reputedly like reading an actual book yet - I've wondered if they would substitute for weighty tomes on transport. How on earth do you get space for knitting on the tube??

I've never been sold on ebooks yet, other than as the only option available. Imagine the stress of being 6 pages from the end when the battery runs flat just as the signals/runways/points fail and adding hours to the journey.

renarde January 16 2008, 23:43:48 UTC

If the Amazon ebook doodad could also allow me to change the font size, or even just the brightness, I'd bite their arm off.

Yes, the sudden battery death thing is a bugger. But since the gizmo that keeps me alive runs on one AAA battery, I'm sorta used to dealing with that one. *g*

*imagines ebook dying at penultimate page of Matter, and frantically swapping battery from insulin pump to ebook* Priorities, priorities...

I get on the District line at the 2nd station, and get my needles out. I'm practically at Mile End before anyone's brave enough to cramp my style. :o)