Posts by recordari
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Ahh, an unseen post. There's life in it yet.
But I find screens easier to read than a paperback book.
Can't say I'm there yet. While these online communities have meant I'm reading much more on both computer screen and phone, and the mobility factor is a definite plus, if I use my phone for bedtime reading, someone reminds me where the spare room is.
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Forgive me for trying to drag this out, but it's my first experience of jump-starting a thread, so I'm hanging on to it...
Quality Standards. They are updated regularly, and if you take for example the Health & Disability Standards, they are huge. Add the Laboratory and Environmental Standards, and there's a forest right there. Being searchable would make them easier to navigate also. You can order PDF versions already, but it is as a second option to the printed form.
Oh well, I mentioned Quality, so I guess this sucker's a gonna.
Time...6.06
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Islander - Yes the technology will be 'self-regulating' for some time while readers of different types of books either adopt or reject it. I've held a Kimble, and it didn't grab me.
I suspect though that a generation is fast sneaking up who spend hours everyday reading on 1.5 inch screens, or 2 inch iPhones, who may think we're all just being old school.
The Academic Textbook is another opportunity in this field. It seems some are already on to it. That, if it catches on, might actually save some trees.
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A major focus of Reality Hunger is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
Let's hope that Shields never writes a book about, say, genocide.
Exactly. Did he actually read that sentence?
Perhaps this is also apposite.
'Author Skips Publisher'. Is he doing a 'Radiohead' on the publishing industry? They must be petrified, which, as the article suggests, will involve lawyers.
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Thanks Jolisa. Will look lustily for your new book thread. Hmm, this could get out of hand...
Meanwhile, Giovanni, yes very apposite. The issue of originality and ownership of the written word is not going to go away any time soon.
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Has this been dead-threaded? Must be a Defibrillator around here somewhere. Hang on.
Clear....
Well, I'm far from a thread doctor, but just feel there's more books that we could cover. Is there another book thread hiding somewhere?
Honourable mention to Iain Banks Transition. It is either so obvious it is probably not noteworthy, or so clever I no longer know what is real.
The Patrick Rothfuss sequel to Name of the Wind, Wise Man's Fear, released April 2009, according to Amazon from as early as Oct 2008. But of course it wasn't. The Author wasn't happy with it, and the ensuing 'flame war', for want of a better description, on his own discussion forum was quite entertaining.
With reference to the original topic of this thread, I prefer my authors to take the time to get things right, rather than rushing them to print to appease their publishers, or the impatient reading public. Some of his 'fans' abused him quite vehemently.
Next projected release date is May 2010. Needless to say I am a bit of a fan myself, as the first was a pretty decent début, IMhO.
Maybe we could start the Christmas Wish Lust (Freudian slip, but decided to keep it).
Or, as this was just me loitering in an abandoned thread, we could call it, and move on...
Happy Jollies everyone.
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Being from WHakatane, I can't get particularly excited. The lazy always screwed it up, or some might have done so for 'sub-cultural' effect I suppose, but we didn't 'rain down' any hell on them.
Oh ye wicked sinners...
“Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup” (Psalm 11:6)What you want in a Mayor is a balanced sense of perspective and rational response to issues of public import.
Hey *HWanganui, happy much?
(*I'm searching, unsuccessfully, for phonetic integrity) ;-)
Footnote; and this news item from 2008 was just bloody funny.
Whakatane NSFW -
Think this has to be here, right?
Also found Arcade Fire doing this with U2, but I want to pretend I didn't, so won't mention it.
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"Anyone that comes and starts pronouncing 'Wanganui' as 'WHanganui' is in a serious lot of bother, and you will get hell raining on you from both houses." TV3 Link.
Really Michael?
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I think there's something about that cocky yet awkward boy-man that makes me come over all motherly.
Are you my mother?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Well I could have, but I didn't ;-)