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Tracker Spoilers; Abandon suspense all ye who enter here
Topic Started: Apr 1 2015, 11:52 PM (2,939 Views)
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Yes, you can keep plenty of ebooks in the Kindle Cloud E-reader app and access them from whichever device you want, reading in a browser. It may or may not be fast, depending on the device's browser and the app's interface in the browser. But it is a handy solution. Your laptop or a tablet or cell phone will work. Best of all, it's readily available, as long as you have a web connection for the device. (Wireless hotspot or 3G or 4G.)

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You can have the ebook download to each computer or device (iPad, Kindle, other tablet) on which you want to read it. From Amazon's site, go to My Digital Library or Manage My Kindle (they have renamed it a couple of times) then select the ebook you have bought, then select the destination device to which you wish it to download. You can set the default to one computer or device and then download specifically to others.

When you have the Kindle app on a given computer or device, then you can connect it to your Amazon Kindle account, and then you can get the downloads on demand: Either you choose when to download them, or set up to auto-download them. The title appears in the app, you tap or right-click it, and have it download. Very handy.

The Kindle readers themselves have gotten cheaper lately. An iPad remains fairly expensive.

My iPad has been complaining lately that it gets nearly full, and wants me to remove more items. So this summer, I may buy a new Kindle, if i can squeeze it into the budget. Ebooks and audiobooks are two of the things I use most on my iPad.
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Devoured it. Wow. One of the best in the series.

So what was mother-of-Irene really up to? She seems to have been in cahoots with Braddock. Is Braddock Irene's dad or grandpa or something?
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Also I feel like packing the kyo and human threads together in one book suggests that she's starting to wind the series down.
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Also I feel like packing the kyo and human threads together in one book suggests that she's starting to wind the series down.

Well, they will be sharing the same small bit of real estate anyway. But I am wondering how much longer Ilisidi will be around.

Louis Baynes Braddock. Even the name is pompous. Wonder what would happen if someone called him Louie.
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I wondered if Irene might become the next paidhi-in-training. She needs somewhere to go and her apparently precocious facility for learning Ragi already seems to have been remarked on.
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I had the same thought about Irene. She is definitely a Force in this episode!
Loved the kids and Caijeiri.
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I currently have over 800 books on my kindle, and there is plenty of room for more. I like having a dedicated reader, and it is much lighter than my tablet computer.

One word of advice though - DO get a reader capable of using the cell phone network and not one that only works with wireless! Free wireless isn't nearly as accessible and 'everywhere' as cell coverage.

Some people do read on their phones, but the screens are impossibly small (my opinion).

All that means is: you can download and read your books from the Cloud on any device you wish. I prefer the portable e-reader myself.

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I enjoyed Tracker quite a lot - good insights into and scenes with Mospheirans (which is generally something rare in any of the books) and of course the kids were great - all of them. Bjorn has shown up again -

I am, however (as always) bothered by continuity glitches - wasn't Irene supposed to be included originally because she was a sister to one of the boys?

Now they are all individual and apparently single children.

WONDERFUL scenes with Cajeiri! ALL of them! and he has such excellent insight into the nature of his human 'aishid', each of them individually.

Plus I'm understanding even more why Ilisidi values Tatiseigi so much - he is far, far more than a one-note hide bound conservative (although he is that, too).
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I see they finally put up a blurb for the book, but it doesn't say much, does it? :/
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agricola,Apr 9 2015
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I am, however (as always) bothered by continuity glitches - wasn't Irene supposed to be included originally because she was a sister to one of the boys?


I'm pretty sure she was Bjorn's sister, but can't find the quote. The fair hair from Protector has now been explained as bleached from dark hair.

Then resourceful Irene because a dark-haired "boy." Girl has smarts. :flower:
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In Destroyer, I think it's explained that "Irene wasn't a girl, she was Artur's sister", in that period when Cajeiri was trying to get a slumber party arranged for his birthday on the ship.

It was also mentioned in one of the books that she was a black girl. That was lost as well. :/
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And what's this about her "becoming a boy"? :P Come on guys, spoilers.... don't be shy now!
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In Destroyer, I think it's explained that "Irene wasn't a girl, she was Artur's sister", in that period when Cajeiri was trying to get a slumber party arranged for his birthday on the ship.

It was also mentioned in one of the books that she was a black girl. That was lost as well. :/

Yes - she was dark skinned originally and ALSO Artur's sister (I think) but Artur isn't/wasn't dark-skinned -

Then in a later book she was fair -

But in Tracker she is clearly dark skinned, and the blond hair was a bleach job, apparently.

But then, so is the black hair a dye job -

She is clearly the best defined of the kids at this point, with the most 'lines'.

Perhaps Bren acquires an apprentice!

TRULY enjoyed the scenes with Cajeiri and Damiri, and Cajeiri's sudden realization of the gaps in his memory from childhood. Spooky.
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So Tillington is the human version of Baiji in this book, but I suspect that there's another shoe to drop. The intransigence seemed too desperate to me -- he knows *something*, possibly misled by a machination of Ogun (who *definitely* knows something damaging).

I sort of wonder what the Guild Observers are thinking, and perhaps that will figure in the next book (otherwise, plotwise, why are they there?) -- they've seen a little taste of how Mospheiran procedures are run, and I wonder what they surmise about dealing with humans at close quarters and how a stationside Guild office would need to operate.
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But now we know Jago's verdict on the human refusal to assassinate: c'mon, it would be so much easier if they could just get rid of Tillington!
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The Tracker cover Bren is Todd Lockwood himself, along with Herself as Ilisidi. Neither Todd nor Bren are spring fresh faced any more.
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