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| From | jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber |
| Date | 2018-06-21 17:37 +0000 |
| Organization | Public Access Networks Corp. |
| Message-ID | <pggno3$6ub$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <pgcapv$rv1$3@dont-email.me> <pAn2rI.22Mu@kithrup.com> <pgek9v$kri$1@reader1.panix.com> <slrnpinmgc.no6.carlf@panix5.panix.com> |
In article <slrnpinmgc.no6.carlf@panix5.panix.com>, Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote: >On 2018-06-20, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: >> In article <pAn2rI.22Mu@kithrup.com>, >> Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote: >>>In article <pgeckp$qvj$1@reader1.panix.com>, >>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: >>>>In article <pAMyyA.1u20@kithrup.com>, >>>>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>Of the original DunDraCon Committee, one member remains: Steve >>>>>Perrin, co-creator of _Runequest_ and current Seminars organizer. >>>> >>>>Huh. I just bought the new RQ. Waiting for the hardcover to review it. >>> >>>Um ... the _Runequest_ I'm talking about is an old tabletop RPG, >>>not a book. Are we on the same page? >> >> Yes. It's not unknown now for RPGs to have electronic editions and physical >> ones. In the case of Glorantha, buying the pdf* gets one a credit against >> the eventual physical book. Effectively, I get to spread the cost out over >> time and I get to look at the material immediately. >> >> >> 1: I hate pdfs because they are portrait in a world of landscape laptop >> screens but they are handy for searches. > >I co-wrote an edition of RQ once myself. (I was the least important of 5 >authors, >mind you.) > >As for PDFs--they don't have to be portrait, but that's the common format >for reasons that boil down to tradition. You might consider getting a large >tablet. Android tablets are very inexpensive and you can hold them in >portrait mode while reading PDFs. > I have a Kobo for ebooks and a laptop for work and browsing [1]. I am not keen on buying another device just to deal with pdfs. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
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"The Vote is in" by David Weber Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-06-19 20:31 -0500
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber -dsr- <dsr-usenet@randomstring.org> - 2018-06-20 09:23 -0400
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2018-06-20 09:54 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-20 17:26 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-20 18:22 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-20 19:37 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2018-06-21 10:06 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-21 17:13 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2018-06-22 10:32 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-22 17:47 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-22 17:49 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-06-20 12:40 -0500
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-20 19:18 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-20 20:15 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-20 20:40 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-06-20 15:24 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-20 22:33 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-20 16:10 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2018-06-20 17:43 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-22 10:22 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber synthius2002@yahoo.com - 2018-06-27 11:24 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber tsbrueni@gmail.com - 2018-07-13 06:24 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 09:15 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-06-21 09:43 -0500
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-06-21 15:56 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-20 22:26 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-06-20 15:33 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-20 16:12 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-21 00:05 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-21 01:10 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-06-20 21:47 -0400
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2018-06-20 19:16 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-22 10:19 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-21 02:22 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-22 10:19 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2018-06-20 17:44 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-22 10:24 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-21 17:02 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-21 17:37 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-22 13:31 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-22 13:35 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-22 15:52 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> - 2018-06-22 17:45 +0100
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-22 17:00 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-22 17:05 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-22 17:39 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-06-22 14:23 -0400
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-22 21:08 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-06-23 00:01 -0400
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-06-22 19:46 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-06-22 13:24 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-06-22 14:06 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-06-22 21:27 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2018-06-23 10:08 +0100
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-22 21:10 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-06-22 19:45 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-06-24 23:14 -0600
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-25 14:15 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-06-24 23:13 -0600
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-22 10:28 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-22 17:41 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-22 10:43 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-06-22 21:30 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-23 05:36 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2018-06-23 10:49 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-23 18:50 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-06-24 12:25 -0600
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-24 19:17 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-06-24 14:11 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 00:47 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-06-24 23:12 -0600
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 05:57 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 06:16 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 10:01 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 10:32 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 10:43 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-25 17:47 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 11:08 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-06-26 00:09 -0600
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-06-25 14:42 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber synthius2002@yahoo.com - 2018-06-27 11:22 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2018-06-21 09:43 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-06-22 07:04 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-06-22 07:21 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber mvp@web1.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt) - 2018-06-22 23:46 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber MIKEN <burdsman35@gmail.com> - 2018-06-20 18:31 -0700
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-21 01:46 +0000
Re: "The Vote is in" by David Weber Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-06-20 21:41 -0700
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