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ok so my friend got me a book for my birthday and it made me appreciate ebooks so much
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(terrible pic care of an old bb camera)
nook is on top. i'm pretty sure that when i'm done reading my ancient tome, it can double as a coffee table and possibly a boat.
the book is jonathan strange & mr norrel by susanne clarke.
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ok so my friend got me a book for my birthday and it made me appreciate ebooks so much
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As soon as I saw what book it was I began chuckling at your expense. That book gives me mixed emotions like none other. I think I posted some delirious opinions about it somewhere on this board.
I survived the pointless anecdotes, the worst opening 300 pages in the history of literature and the grating style and came out more or less regarding it as the most delightful, unique, poignant and worthwhile novel I have read in years.
Ohh, and if I were you I would just pirate the ebook version.
P.S. enjoy your month of hell.
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ok so my friend got me a book for my birthday and it made me appreciate ebooks so much
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Actually, the ebook version might be unbearable. Half the book takes the form of footnotes.
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ok so my friend got me a book for my birthday and it made me appreciate ebooks so much
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After a few months of reading books in ebook format, I'd just like to say that I don't think I'll ever read an ebook again. Paper books for me thank you very much.
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ok so my friend got me a book for my birthday and it made me appreciate ebooks so much
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the ebook i downloaded for it has proper links in it, so it should (hopefully) have proper links to the footnotes. if it doesn't i might just buy it cuz there is no way in hell i'm reading the physical book.
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Well, I just thought it would drive you to distraction accessing multiple footnotes every page.
The book really is preposterous.
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After a few months of reading books in ebook format, I'd just like to say that I don't think I'll ever read an ebook again. Paper books for me thank you very much.
I am the opposite. I love e-books so much I've actually picked up my reading habits. It is like reading books was exhausting to me and e-books are freeing. I've read 39 books in the last two months that I have had an e-reader.
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as i have started to read this now, because i had to sit around for an hour at the doctor's office, i've realized that it's exactly like reading a book as narrated by a 95 year old at an old folks home. this bitch rambles about nothing and goes off on seemingly inconsequential tangents. i only managed to read like 20 pages in that hour because my brain kept wandering off. i was sitting there going i wonder what i should do for lunch. there are 18 tiles covering the ground in here. i shouldn't have worn this shirt. i forgot they use betadine before injections. god now it's going to get ruined. this is my favorite shirt. i wonder what my dog thinks about all day. *turn page* ... what did i just read? sigh.. *turn page back and reread page.* <insert 40 more random things> *turn page* GOD DAMMIT *turn page back* how the fk old is the bitch that wrote this. jesus christ let's meander about some more.  *open up discworld novel and read 100 pages in the remaining 20 minutes.*
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The first 300 pages are a scourge upon humanity they are so bad.
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ok so my friend got me a book for my birthday and it made me appreciate ebooks so much
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it's going to take me FOREVER to read this. and thankfully the footnotes are all linked like they are for all the death gate books. i think there's more footnotes in death gate than there is actual story so i'm used to clicking a link and reading it, then going back to the story.
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I average two books every three days and it took me twelve days to get through that abomination. I believe at least a week of that was the first 300 pages.
The upside is it picked up for me a great deal once it got to Jonathan Strange's sections.
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well at least i can use the physical copy as a boat when the world floods.
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I don't agree that the first 300 pages are horrendous. I will certainly agree though that the rest of the book after those 300 or so pages is a lot better. It's a slow read written in a detailed and fleshed out style that you simply don't see in literature anymore. It was a really good book though, and I'm honestly looking forward to a followup more than any other right now.
And yes, it's a big book, however it's not that huge, I own bigger. I couldn't imagine it on an e-book reader though with all the footnotes and such, of course I still prefer a real book over an e-reader anyways. I use an e-reader when on the move, but at home I still prefer the real deal.
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