Threw my head back and vomited

[Timewalker]

The Harry Potter series is a lot funnier if you replace all occurences of the word "wand" with "wang."

I have never read the books or seen the movies. But I've seen a lot of photos, and never once was I aware that Hermione is really a guy.

 

[Captaindemotion]

When do Kindle readers find an opportunity to reread a book, to even not notice that the spelling has already been corrected for their second or third run-through? My pile of unread books threatens to keep growing, and to stay unread until I die. Or, at least, until I retire.

Same here. Along with my unwatched DVD boxed sets.

 

[JWolf]

I certainly don't approve of changing an authors work, but I've got something on my reader with a misspelling. How do you correct Kindle errors ?

It's not all that easy. You can correct the error, but then there is more chance of the eBook not being quite right when put back together. Plus, you first have to strip the DRM. If you don't know how to do that, then you cannot correct errors in most eBooks and definitely not a Star Trek eBook as there is DRM.

Stripping DRM is illegal and we would never do that.

Legally, that's actually never been proven. There is fair use which was around before the DMCA and even the DMCA has some exceptions to DRM stripping for eBooks. What we do not know is if the DMCA trumps fair use or does fair use trump the DMCA? Also, until it's set in stone in a court of law, there is no way to say for certain that stripping DRM is illegal. So please don't go spreading possible falsehoods that could scare some people into not stripping DRM when they should be doing so.

When do Kindle readers find an opportunity to reread a book, to even not notice that the spelling has already been corrected for their second or third run-through? My pile of unread books threatens to keep growing, and to stay unread until I die. Or, at least, until I retire.

I use Calibre to keep track of my eBooks and I have created a custom field for a version number and a custom field for if I've read the book. If the version field is a certain number or higher and the read field says I've read the book, then I know I've corrected any errors I've found while reading. Quite easy to keep track.

^ Ironically, I don't plan on buying a Kindle either. Disliking Amazon's DRM strategy aside, I don't like e-ink screens (I often read at night, so a screen that needs an external light source is inconvenient, and the slow refresh drives me nuts) and I find it inconvenient to have to put up with an extra device just for reading. I think it's better to have a single, more general-purpose device. That also lets me use my own/modified software for reading. Right now, the Nexus 7 is really attractive ...

Slow refresh? Nope. By the time your eyes are at the top of the screen, the change has already occurred. Remember, that a tablet is going to be heavier then an eink reader plus, the battery life for a tablet is measured in hours. You can get a Sony Reader and a nice light case and have your light to be able to read in bed.

 

[Sho]

^ I'm talking about actual personal experience guiding my preferences.

And FWIW, Sony is not a company I intend to give my money ever again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_America_v._George_Hotz

 

[ATimson]

Slow refresh? Nope. By the time your eyes are at the top of the screen, the change has already occurred.

On modern readers, yes, but not on older ones like the Kindle 3 and earlier, or the original Nook.

 

[Sho]

With the latest gen you get speedy partial updates, but every couple of them it still initiates a slow full screen reset. That's almost more jarring IMHO.

 

[ATimson]

With the latest gen you get speedy partial updates, but every couple of them it still initiates a slow full screen reset. That's almost more jarring IMHO.

I can see how it owuld be. But even the full resets seem faster to me.

I could also be deluding myself.

 

[Thrawn]

I dunno, I got used to that really quickly. Just learned to hit the button around about the beginning of the last line of text, instead of when I reached the end. It took maybe one full novel for me to stop noticing that entirely.

 

[Jarvisimo]

That's a classic internet thing, aye: http://www.bash.org/?111338

Dreadfully delightful! How did you find this?

He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.

 

[Sho]

That's a classic internet thing, aye: http://www.bash.org/?111338

Dreadfully delightful! How did you find this?

bash.org is a pretty popular quote collection website for users of the IRC chat system. I guess the answer is "word of mouth" .

 

[Daddy Todd]

If Isabel Allende wants to write her own version of Zorro, drawing on the earlier versions, more power to her, but when I reprinted Johnston McCulley's original novel a few years back, I didn't go back and revise the prose to make it read more like a modern novel.

If only L. Sprague deCamp had felt the same about REH's original Conan texts (and fragments). It took decades to make the original versions available to anyone but scholars and collectors of moldering copies of Weird Tales.

I certainly don't approve of changing an authors work, but I've got something on my reader with a misspelling. How do you correct Kindle errors ?

You would have to use something to strip out the DRM, then something to convert it to HTML or RTF or whatever, make your changes, then you would convert it to MOBI (which is the Kindle format). From there, you upload it or email it to your Kindle. Like I said, not a simple process, especially if you are doing it to correct one or two spelling errors.

Sigil is a great application for editing DRM-free e-books. When Samuel R. Delany's new novel (Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders) came out recently, there was an entire chapter left out of both the print and e-book versions. Delany's agent made the missing text available as a PDF file.

As the e-book version was DRM-free, I was able to open it up in Sigil, insert the missing chapter (and re-number all subsequent chapters) as well as clean up assorted other errata that Delany's representatives published on the internet. Thus, when I read the book, I had a better, more perfect representation of authorial intent than anyone who read the printed codex or the e-text.

I was very pleased it was possible to do this. Delany is a meticulous craftsman, who used to walk around bookstores in NYC and insert an errata sheet into copies of Dhalgren, which was riddled with typos for much of its publishing history.

...two upcoming novels co-written by Larry Niven, who's of interest to Trek audiences from his work on the animated series and the LA Times Syndicate comic strip: Bowl of Heaven with Gregory Benford (about a megastructure that's a cross between a Ringworld and half a Dyson shell) and Fate of Worlds with Edward M. Lerner (the finale to their Fleet of Worlds series and the Ringworld series).

The Fleet of Worlds series has been really entertaining. After reading the first four, I re-read Niven's four Ringworld books. I finished that exercise with an inescapable conclusion that the four books co-authored with Lerner were better than the four Ringworld books written by Niven alone (especially The Ringworld Throne, which was a big snore for me.) I'm really looking forward to Fate of Worlds!

 

[Starbreaker]

I really don't have the time to edit books that I am reading. I have noticed errors when I'm reading books, but I usually just skim over them and go ahead with the story. I rarely reread books anyway. I think I've done it twice in a decade.

 

[The Borg Queen]

It's gotten to the point that I've had to do a search and replace on my kindle files and fix it.

Wait a sec. People are rewriting books to their own specifications now?

Am I the only one who gets a bit of a chill at that idea?

Ever heard of the book "Of Pandas and People"?

Or just ask professional Basketball player, "Rudy Homosexual".

 

[Ben Sisko]

for your consideration, proof of KRAD's writing tick from the Gorkon Books:


, Klag throwing his head back and bellowing his amusement to the ceiling.

Klag threw his head back and laughed at the chancellor’s remark

Throwing his head back and laughing, Klag said, “Do not worry, my friend. I suspect that you will find all the fighting your heart desires

Throwing his head back, Klag laughed heartily. Oh, I like these people!

Klag threw his head back and laughed the throaty laugh that Kornan
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At that, Klag once again reared his head back and laughed heartily.

Then he threw his head back and laughed.

Triak stared incredulously at Hevna for a moment, then threw his head back and threw a hearty laugh at the ceiling.

Klag threw his head back and laughed. “Toq is ahead of you, Rodek.

Throwing his head back, Klag laughed. “The general is a bigger fool than I thought. He risks—”

She then reared her head back and howled.

Klag threw his head back and laughed. Vekma was an adventurous lover.

Suddenly, Klag threw his head back and laughed.

Klag threw his head back and laughed. “You, who claim to be of the same family as that fat old toDSaH, can truly stand there and call him a greater warrior while maintaining an even composure?

Worf turned to see Klag, his head back, his laughter cascading up toward the ceiling.

Throwing his head back and laughing, Klag said, “Things are never what they were on this ship, Bekk


Throwing his head back, Klag laughed to the ceiling. “Excellent! I’m glad I’m able to provide you with a d’k tahg to sink into this Dr. Kowag’s chest.”

Klag threw his head back and laughed. “Indeed he did. Ship’s status?”

Throwing his head back, Lokor laughed heartily toward the ceiling.

. Instead he simply threw his head back and screamed to the ceiling.

Throwing his head back, Klag laughed heartily, as did everyone else at the table.

As he fell to the floor, Klag threw his head back and laughed.

Throwing his head back, Klag laughed heartily.

He still pried L’Kor’s eyes open, growled low in his throat, then threw his head back and screamed to the heavens, his voice echoing off the stalactites.

Klag threw his head back and laughed heartily. “I intend to return home.



Again, Klag threw his head back and laughed, and they left the chancellor’s study for the Great Hall’s transporter room.

Rodek threw his head back and screamed to the heavens.


Lak threw his head back and laughed heartily, his guffaws echoing off the merchant stands.

 

[Jarvisimo]

Ben Sisko, if this were in a visual media, there would be a wonderful youtube video to be made of it, possibly with cheesy music. Since it is in text, you have done an excellent job of making a kind of graphic art-parody/critique. That is an extensive pattern of essentially overuse of throwing his head back and laughing. It reads like how i use 'enframing the object' in my research

 

[Tiberius]

I saw a rewritten version of Peter Pan once. "All little boys, except for one little scalliwag, grow up."

I threw back my head and vomited.

 

[Sho]

Tiberius is kind of stealing my thunder here, but if you'd kindly forget his post for a brief moment: I just read that post Ben Sisko, and I threw my head back and laughed.

 

[Starbreaker]

Klag is one party animal!

 

[JD]

I don't know, it does seem like a very Klingon kind of thing to do a lot.

 

[Sho]

if this were in a visual media, there would be a wonderful youtube video to be made of it

Aye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78RzZr3IwI