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Cherryh - More Ebooks Available; And another pbook
Topic Started: Jan 7 2015, 04:39 AM (1,384 Views)
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Hahaha! I love it!

I'd still go for pbook as a printed book, but why get lost in hb, pb, eb for ebook, ab for audiobook, and so on.

Tbook for a tree-based paper book? Hmm, no.

Just book. But I really like BookBook. -- Loved the parody. So, so true.

Hmm. He could've mentioned the high-definition CMYK color achieved with only four inks.

Or how it supports multiple typefaces and layouts and....

OK, OK! :D BookBook. Definitely.
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Hmm. He could've mentioned the high-definition CMYK color achieved with only four inks.

Or how it supports multiple typefaces and layouts and....


You've reminded me of this old favourite: Introducing the Book: Medieval Tech Support
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Heheheh, oh, thank you, I haven't seen that again in (middle) ages!
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Oh, wow! Just in time for the holidays!

The Faded Sun Trilogy (in a single omnibus edition) is now available for Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks. (And one presumes, for Barnes & Noble's Nook and for Kobo.)

Cyteen: Regenesis is also newly available for the same ebook formats.

However, Cyteen, originally published as a trilogy, then as a single volume, is not yet showing up for ebook formats, but does still show up for printed books. One presumes it will be available soon.

Spanish: The Pride of Chanur (La orgulla de Chanur) and Chanur's Venture (La aventura de Chanur) showed up, but not the other three Chanur books yet; and Foreigner #1 (El estranjero) in Spanish showed up.

German: A number of German-language editions of C.J. Cherryh's books now show up in ebook format, at least for Kindle and presumably for other formats. Titles include several (all?) of the five Chanur books, the Faded Sun Trilogy (in one volume), and what appear to be Merchanter's Luck, Serpent's Reach, and 40,000 in Gehenna.

Alas, Merchanter's Luck in English does not yet show up in ebook formats. However, Downbelow Station does. One could also wish for titles such as Finity's End and Tripoint.

Visitor is showing up for pre-order, but not yet Convergence.

The Morgaine Cycle (complete in one volume) was released in September for ebooks.

So, all in all, there are new titles available in ebooks for Cherryh fans! Great news!
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BlueCatShip,Nov 26 2015
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But I really like BookBook. -- Loved the parody. So, so true.


OK, OK! :D BookBook. Definitely.

so, how many books does a BookBook cost?

or would it be book, book, book, book, book, that's five books.....
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It's a recursive problem. The more it costs, the more you curse.

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string_of_curses = recurse_costs( BookBook[] );

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(Could we say "pbook" for printed book?)


Actually we call it a BookBook.

Here's why...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syd1pKOJ__k

Depending on who their target audience is, they could also say it's completely open-source....
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A libre libro, as it were. And if it's not libre, you pay in libras / librae.

(I'm fairly sure the Latin adjective is liber, the noun libertas, and for book, I think it's libris or librus, when it's not using Greek biblos.)

Most Romance languages have una biblioteca, une bibliotèque, etc., for a library and Spanish has una librería for a bookstore, with libre for the word free, and libra, livre, lirra, (etc.) for a pound (such as a pound of sterling silver). So it gets tricky referring to freedom, books, and pounds.

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There's been movement pro and con on open-source libre fonts, from organizations and designers both. There've been moves by the big boys out there that have limited how "open" even using webfonts can be. Very exasperating. There needs to be a common set of fonts, larger than what's out there now, for everyone to use on the web, freely, standard. I understand both the urge to make money at it and not be copies, and the urge to make free options available. I *like* having those free options, to know it can look good on anyone's web page.

I've been irritated lately at limitations of the "Office" suites, and really wish they were better at typographic options and creating and reusing colors. -- I'm going to have to learn Scribus and Inkscape to get around the problems.
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