I also have this on my pile to read on my Kobo 
Currently finishing off the Starsea Cycle by Kyle West. It’s been really good. 10 books in all, and now on book 10!
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Entresteng book, butt et the shame taime vhery deficult to read. It will mesh up my english skeels and evrey thing I larned if I feenish it.
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For those of you who use a e-reader devices like Kindle or Kobo or something else can you pinch and zoom images, maps, diagrams? If yes can you please provide the details of the e-reader? How does the pinch and zoom feature work?
Comments be appreciated.
kobo bw: Double tap the image, use the slider
Pocketbook era: Pinch to zoom the image, tap the image for adjustments: contrast, γ, brightness
It’s ok for an image here and there, but for me is a bit slow or many missed taps or… But this is my preference.
I haven’t experience with comics/manga, other models or kindles.
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Yeah, I read the whole thing but it falls off a cliff about halfway through Book 2.
I really need that too–as far as narrative tone—with books like these. Patti Smith and Keith Richards’ autobios were like that but Ray Davies (of a band I love called The Kinks) wrote in this cutesie way with fiction woven in that I couldn’t even read his book about the band and his life. “Chatted to” keeps things real unpretentious which you need for the entertainment business.
I digress.
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Thanks for the images. It really helped. I looked at a friend’s Kindle and it does not seem to have such a feature.
Does it works for maps and diagrams too? Like for example some scientific, engineering and statistical books have diagrams, charts, schematics, maps, etc. Can you do pinch and zoom there too?
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Is it because it is like Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged by Any Rand? Too dense and monotonous?
To avoid spoilers, I’ll just say he painted himself into a corner with the plot and the way he got out of it was IMO contrived and lame and this persisted to the end.
An image is an image. The binary gods don’t care what it shows 
Hmm. 6th edition. A shame they have no EPUB download. And NoStarch Press offers the 2nd edition EPUB at $31.99.
I keep my 2nd ed. from 2019 for now (I then got the book+free EPUB bundle).
There will be tools available in Linux to convert PDF to Epub or mob or other e-reader friendly format.
Thanks. Will read this. Please keep such types of books coming.
Tools that promise to be able to convert anything but the most basic PDF to EPUB do just one thing: Produce utter JUNK. Sad but proven.
I finished The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, a public domain novella because I was curious:
Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature.
Currently reading House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds.
By the sea, I re-listen Crime and Punishment in Greek.
(The photo is mine, the place the same but from many years before, I’m not shooting anymore)
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re-reading after quite some time. Pure joy. Finnish professor. Good essays throughout but the essay on Raymond Chandler and one of his stories is probably one of the coolest things I ever read.
[helps if you liked Chandler that is. that an academic would treat Chandler as a gifted, important artist–as I always did–is even cooler).
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An excellent ‘what if’ alternate history novel set in 1952, where Britain had surrendered to Germany in 1940.
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Looks interesting!
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