Technowoez
Last week a book I had been much looking forward to (latest in a series that has not been as prolific as perhaps one might desire) theoretically became available to one's ebook reader.
Except, upon opening it, the version one had received had an author's note saying it was a Pre-order/Preview unedited draft version, not the final, ready for sale version, and to contact the publishers.
Well, there has been a certain amount of back and forth, and being sent an epub file in email that did not have this note, but did not play nicely with my e-reader and skipped chunks of text.
And allegedly they have uploaded it anew to the relevant site, so I have downloaded it again, and behold, it still has the note, so I do not know where we are with this, at all.
And on ebooks not playing nicely with my e-reader, there is something really odd happening with the Project Gutenberg file of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, which just jumps over vast stretches of the text. (Is also in a font and layout v unlike the PG standard, which may be a factor?)
Meanwhile, on the home front today, the internet was down for substantial swathes of the morning and early afternoon and a chunk of the mid-afternoon.
Also, last week I came in to partner saying there had been a call on the landline from some mysterious person about our router, which I suspected (and later confirmed) to be a common scam, and this pm there was another call which although not entirely on the same lines, referenced BT Internet, which is not our ISP, and I put down the phone. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2979908.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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