Alexx: We haven't watched "Ironman 2" or 3 yet ( Read more... )

One of my narrative fetishes is occult mysteries, especially if they were written in the 1970s or early 1980s. While _The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia_ by Amy Petulla is categorized as true crime and was published in 2016, it has all the earmarks of the trashy occult fiction I love: the overblown language, the almost inseparable tangle ( Read more... )

Is there a difference between a ( Read more... )

The title is _The Far Forests_, and I found it in digital format on the library for the blind Web site. It's a digital recording made from an audio recording, done in mono, and in the '70s, so I'm getting a paper version to scan ( Read more... )

While my cataloguing system for ebooks is quirky but efficient, organizing my paper and ink books remains an annoyance, mostly because the braille labels I make for the books keep flaking off ( Read more... )

There was an out-of-print paper book not available in ebook format that I really wanted to read, so I ordered a paper copy intending to scan it, but it's been a month since it shipped, and it still hasn't showed up (I blame this ont he fact that the title is _The Wandering Scholars_ ( Read more... )

cvirtue and I have been talking about scanning books, and this reminded me of a question I wanted to ask.

What is your favorite book that you haven't been able to find in digital form, either as an etext from a source such as Project Gutenberg or as a commercially available ebook?

This entry was originally posted at http://kestrell.dreamwidth.org ( Read more... )

Just in case you hadn't heard of this yet ( Read more... )

The blurb mentions lesbians, the title is _Torchlight to Valhalla_, so why aren't there Viking lesbians? Am I the only one who thinks Viking lesbians would be awesome with extra awe on top ( Read more... )

This is the epigraph to _The Encyclopedia of the Dead_ by Danilo Kis; I am including the translation given by Google, but it doesn't entirely make sense to me, so I wanted to make sure the translation was correct before I banged my head against it some more ( Read more... )