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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 4727, "subject": "This Makes Little Sense to Me", "messages": 3, "voices": 2, "first": "2006-10-04T08:14:45+00:00", "last": "2006-10-08T12:09:12+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<20061004081445.2312.qmail@web52006.mail.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Fred Kiesche", "address": "godel2escher2bach at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2006-10-04T08:14:45+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Makes Little Sense to Me", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Greetings:\n\nI have a lot of books in electronic format. Generally,\nI'll own both \"dead tree\" and electronic formats,\nespecially if they're published by certain authors\n(Baen, no snickering please, comes to mind).\n\nSo before embarking on a re-read of the \"New Sun\", I\nthought I'd see if they were available in electronic\nformat. I've found it a good way of making notes,\n\"dog-earring\" the text, etc.\n\nDang. It ain't so. And the selection that **is**\navailable puzzles me:\n\nThe Knight (but not The Wizard!)\nStrange Travelers (O.K., an independent)\nReturn to the Whorl (volume 3 of the Book of the Short\nSun...but not the first two?)\n\nI'll never understand why publishers do things like\nrelease one book electronically...and not the\nfirst...and never follow it up.\n\nMaybe these wouldn't sell like hotcakes in electronic\nformat, but I'll bet if I were a dishonest soul who\nsearched the seamy side of the internet, I could\nprobably come up with pirate editions of what I'm\nlooking for. But I won't. I am willing to spend money\nto buy electronic versions. But I guess I'll have to\nscore some more paperbacks (used or new) and mark,\nnotate and dog-ear them.\n\nGrumble.\n\n\n\n\n Fred Kiesche (FPK3)\n \n My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain, \"Notebook\")\nOver 7,000 postings served! See The Eternal Golden Braid (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/ ).\n\n \n " } ] }, { "message_id": "<1566768244.20061007110821@poczta.fm>", "from": { "name": "Stanislaus", "address": "sbocian at poczta.fm" }, "date": "2006-10-07T09:08:21+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Makes Little Sense to Me", "in_reply_to": "<20061004081445.2312.qmail@web52006.mail.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Hello Fred," }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 10:14:45 AM, you wrote:\nGreetings:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I have a lot of books in electronic format. Generally,\nI'll own both \"dead tree\" and electronic formats,\nespecially if they're published by certain authors\n(Baen, no snickering please, comes to mind)." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "So before embarking on a re-read of the \"New Sun\", I\nthought I'd see if they were available in electronic\nformat." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "....." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Maybe these wouldn't sell like hotcakes in electronic\nformat, but I'll bet if I were a dishonest soul who\nsearched the seamy side of the internet, I could\nprobably come up with pirate editions of what I'm\nlooking for. But I won't. I am willing to spend money\nto buy electronic versions. But I guess I'll have to\nscore some more paperbacks (used or new) and mark,\nnotate and dog-ear them." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Grumble." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": " Fred Kiesche (FPK3)" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I have a simple solution. Buy some paper books\nby Wolfe - new, not used, he doesn't get any money from used books -\nAND get pirated texts. It is NOT legal - but as the author gets the\nmoney anyway, it is not so important - unless you want to strictly\nobey the law." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Best regards,\n Stanislaus mailto:sbocian at poczta.fm\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nJestes kierowca? To poczytaj! >>> http://link.interia.pl/f199e" } ] }, { "message_id": "<20061008120912.829.qmail@web52013.mail.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Fred Kiesche", "address": "godel2escher2bach at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2006-10-08T12:09:12+00:00", "subject": "(urth) This Makes Little Sense to Me", "in_reply_to": "<1566768244.20061007110821@poczta.fm>", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Greetings:\n\nI do have his books, sometimes in as many as three\nformats (hardcover, trade PB, mass PB). \n\nI'd rather encourage legal purchases of eBooks and get\nMr. Wolfe a few more duckets. \n\nI could go the route you suggest, but I'd rather go\ntotally legit.\n\n\n\n Fred Kiesche (FPK3)\n \n My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain, \"Notebook\")\nOver 7,000 postings served! See The Eternal Golden Braid (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/ ).\n\n \n " } ] } ] }