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  • Re: (review) The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold

    From The Horny Goat@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Jun 1 17:00:41 2025
    On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 14:54:08 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    Dude, we agree on something !

    Except when the book smells of mildew. That is just nasty. I threw out
    a couple of thousand books after the Great Flood Of 1989 because they
    were immersed and then mildewed.

    Wow - when my aunt died, she had two barns full of books in boxes in
    10' high racking. My cousin got the 'privilege' of going through it
    and a few weeks after that she mailed me a package containing my
    father's high school records (originals not copies - some of the
    documents were hand written in pencil) from the early 1950s including
    IQ tests. Given I've seen his college transcripts (where his grades
    went from marginal to honor roll the year my parents married - given
    my mother was an excellent typist I asked her if she had been typing
    his papers after they married and was told yes) I suspect he'd do well
    now given something like the PC I have now.

    I suspect a portion of my aunt's books became mildewed given the
    climate in our part of the country....

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  • From Robert Carnegie@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jun 2 08:42:38 2025
    On 04/04/2025 21:22, WolfFan wrote:
    I read ebooks on my iPad. The Kindle app is annoying but usable. Apple’s own Books is better that the Kindle app, not a high bar to pass. Other ebook readers are available. My favorite, Marvin, is now dead. Pity. It seems that calibre is not available for iOS/iPadOS for reasons of GPL, so it will probably never be available. Its ebook reader was not the best, but it was better than Kindle apps. Barnes & Noble have killed Nook for Mac and older Windows and Nook for newer Windows is only available from the Microsoft store, ensuring that it will never be on one of my machines and that I will never buy an ebook from B&N.

    It appears here
    <https://www.barnesandnoble.com/h/apps>
    that "Nook" software exists for Apple phones,
    tablets, and Apple Watch, and for Android but
    no mention of Microsoft Windows - and
    Microsoft Store, searched for Nook, seems
    to offer only other reader software, or at
    least other names. Like when artificial
    intelligence apparently understands what was
    asked for, but does not understand that it
    doesn't exist.

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