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[Kat]

Yeah, I don't care about pagecount, just want "a book" counted. I think I will choose a duology of hers and just mark them as re-reads.

[Kat]

I asked the author, and she said since each book is about 1k pages long, she thinks I can clock 3 re-reads of about 330 pages each. We'll see how it goes :-)

[Kat]

Welcome to what feels like my personal thread :-)

So who is playing WoW Classic at the moment? I know that Rob is. I'm still on the fence, to be honest. Don't have a subscription at the moment, but am considering a one-off month perhaps...

I'm mostly intrigued by trading on the auction house. I remember making some good money on there before all the cross-faction items became bound-on-account, rather than bound-on-character.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

I've never been good at making money through the AH. I never know what sells, or how to price stuff.

In retail I use a mod to help track prices a bit, but I'm mostly a buyer, not a seller. I tend to just vendor most stuff.

I need to figure out a good way to make some money so I can get the 100g for my level 40 mount. Again. I'm already skipping a lot of my spells to save up, but I feel like I'm way behind where I need to be.

One big difference of Classic and Vanilla that you may appreciate is they left the Auction Houses in each major faction city instead of requiring you go to Orgrimar or Iron Forge. I kind of wish they didn't do that, but I've already taken advantage of the one in Thunder Bluff.

[Kat]

You need gold?

Okay, here is how you make gold on the AH.

Unless you have 2 accounts, get into cahoots with a trusted friend who plays the opposite faction (he can make money, too). Go on a shopping spree and get pets from the vendors (cats, hamsters, whatever they are). Meet at the neutral AH in Booty Bay at 3 am on Wednesday, when nobody is around.

Sell your pets to your accomplice for 1 copper, and buy HIS pets for 1 copper. Make sure nobody swoops in and steals them, so you have to make sure you coordinate your sales so that they're only up there for a few seconds.

Put the opposite-faction pet on the AH for 50 gold. (Don't put all, put them one after the other)

The same works for faction-only cooking recipes, and faction-only sewing patterns etc.

If you have the patience to camp for little Timmy (or whatever his name is) in Stormwind to get a White Kitty (or 2), smuggle that to the Horde and sell it for at least 150 gold.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

That sounds like an expensive investment. Not sure people have enough money yet to drop 50g on pets either. But down the road that could be worth looking into.

I think our server is like 70-30 Alliance-Horde. I'm playing horde. So it might be best moving Horde stuff to alliance than the other way round.

[Kat]

Nono, the investment is very small. You buy the pets from the NPC vendors. There is one for every race/city. They cost some silver, not more. For example, the Alliance humans have a pet vendor who sells 4 or 5 differently coloured cats for like 50 silver each.

You trade them to the other faction via the neutral AH for 1 copper each (to your accomplice).

Then you SELL the Alliance pets for 50 gold on the Horde AH, for 49+ gold profit each.

Because Horde do not have a cat vendor, and even if they fight their way to the actual cat vendor, they cannot buy from the Alliance NPC. And people luurve pets.

[Kat]

....or sell them for 30 gold or for whatever people are willing to pay.

Point is, if you have an accomplice to help you shift them through the neutral AH (or have 2 accounts and do it yourself) for 1 copper without someone else buying them while they're up on the neutral AH, you'll have merchandise that costs you way less than 1 gold, and will bring you profit on the AH.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

So you're volunteering to be my accomplice? And how do I get the money back to horde if I'm selling pets so cheap on the neutral ah?

Or is that why you sell alliance pets on horde too?

[Kat]

Exactly. If you have an accomplice on the other side, and "swap" merchandise, you both make money.

I assume you're on a US server - I'm not sure I can get onto those if I'm registered to EU servers. Otherwise I'd be happy to do business with you :-)

[Kat]

I caved in, I'm a level 6 hunter now :-)

[Sky]

Kat wrote: "I caved in, I'm a level 6 hunter now :-)"

Now we just need you to make one of those "My name's _____ and I'm a ______" commercials so that we get the true classic experience.

[Kat]

I just had such a good laugh! Way back when I was young, I left school with GCSEs, and never did my A-Levels. I decided it's time to rectify that, and signed up for a prep course that I'm forced to take in order to register for the exams.

They just sent me my first study materials in the post, and I got an English book, and it starts with:

"...In this section you will be learning how to introduce yourself in English, and how to ask for directions to a place."

Okay. I think I'm gonna ace English 101 like a shooting star.

[Ctgt]

:)

[Kat]

Did Alex leave Goodreads completely?

He's no longer in the group, and he's also disappeared from my friends list.

Edit: his book blog and twitter are also gone.

[Kat]

Okay, question time:

Do you guys watch booktube?

And if yes, would you find it weird if I made an English booktube channel, but would also discuss German books I've read that haven't been translated into English, and might never be translated?
Or should I just not discuss those at all?

[Ctgt]

Don't watch much booktube. I would say it's your channel, you do as you please.
As long as there are cookies!

[Kat]

Okay, I've done it.

Here's a link to my first video, which doesn't discuss any books at all (booo!) but where I answer some questions before launching into bookish videos.

https://youtu.be/Os6BL_OKqvA

[Suzanne]

Kat! I'm watching it now. I'm so impressed that you have done this - that's great! And I love the bookshelf behind you!

[Kat]

Thank you! <3

[Kat]

Hello, and welcome to what feels like my personal discussion thread :-)

How are you all doing during the pandemic? Do you find yourself reading more during these times? (Or - less?)

Don't want to start a virus discussion on here (we have enough of that everywhere else), but am interested if your reading habits are affected.

[Lindsay]

I’m reading about the same, about 7000 pages a month, although a larger portion of my reading is in audio. The lockdown in my country allows going outside for exercise so I’ve been doing a lot of walking, and I use that time for audiobooks.

[Suzanne]

I've still been reading, but less than normally, and some only because of obligation. Much of that is due to being fixated om the news, but even more is that I've had to translate and do all my college classes to online. That has been very time consuming. Doing online school for the 7-year-old in the house at the same time has also taken a lot of time.

BUT finals week is this coming week, so there is light and more reading at the end of the tunnel.

[Kat]

Oh yes, homeschool! I salute every parent who has to manage homeschooling kids AT THE SAME TIME as having to work from home. It's not like you can send them to bed until your work day is over....

My brother is seriously considering getting his 10-year-old twins their own computers, because they keep hanging around their parent's desks while they're in zoom work meetings, bugging them about computer time to do their online homework.

[Suzanne]

Yes the computer access is a real pain! And I think kids are starting to feel the stress of nothing much to look forward to with certainty, etc. However, we've progressed from daily meltdowns to bargaining and bribery. I'll take it!

I bought her Animal Crossing - maybe it'll be her "World of Warcraft". Need to create a gamer :)

[Kat]

Awesome!

[Ctgt]

I'm still working so I'm reading less than normal because we have been busier.

[Mark]

I have a lot of home decorating done, unpacked 60% of boxes since I moved house last June, keeping the rest in case this goes on after May.

Reading a lot and doing my wargaming painting.

Binge watching Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR and the hobbit extended versions. Just finished Harry Potter films.

Not sure what’s next to binge.

[Mark]

Ctgt wrote: "I'm still working so I'm reading less than normal because we have been busier."

I have been lucky my place of work is shut and I am been paid by my work to stay home and safe. I am better off then family and friends who are having to claim unemployment.

[Ctgt]

Mark wrote: "I have been lucky my place of work is shut and I am been paid by my work to stay home and safe. I am be..."

Wow, that's great Mark! Even though I am considered essential my personal exposure risk is still fairly low....unlike retail, I have very little everyday interaction with anyone outside of my immediate work location.

[Kat]

Mark wrote: "I have a lot of home decorating done, unpacked 60% of boxes since I moved house last June, keeping the rest in case this goes on after May."

Hahaha, I have also unpacked a few boxes this week from my move last May. Also still have some left....

[Kat]

I have read more since I quit work in February, but I've been on sick leave since then, so having more time had nothing to do with the virus in my case.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Necroposting now since apparently I missed all the notifications from a month ago. Or I guess almost 2 months ago.

I was reading a lot less in April. Mostly I didn't read at all in April and dramatically lost audiobook time due to lack of a daily commute.

Since late May I've been back to work part time (every other week) and I was finally able to read again in May.

I've mostly been playing video games or watching TV with the extra down time.

I hope everyone is doing OK.

[Kat]

I'm in a reading slump this month. Started several things, haven't finished any of them.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Yeah, I totally get reading slumps. I was having some before all this started. I can barely bring myself to read the news since it always makes some combination of mad and depressed.

It doesn't make for a good headspace to read recreationally.

[Suzanne]

So true! I thought I'd perhaps read more, but I'm too distracted by world events, I guess. I tried to get back into WoW, and leveling a new character was fun, but I just couldn't get into the end game. I've been playing a little Path of Exiles this week, which is fun so far (and free).

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

I've been playing WoW classic and revisiting raids I did 15+ years ago. I didn't plan to raid again with any regularity, but that sense of nostalgia has really helped me during all this.

[Ctgt]

We bought a Switch just as the lock down was beginning and we have been playing Animal Crossing...my wife is addicted and I have been more engaged with the game than I anticipated. It's oddly relaxing.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Yeah, seems like a lot of people are doing AC. I have a switch, but it just doesn't look that appealing to me. Glad you guys are enjoying it though!

[Ctgt]

I wasn't all that interested either, those types of games never really caught my fancy so I'm not sure if it's the "current state of the world escapism" or what but I have stayed engaged up to this point.

[Kat]

My WoW game time just ran out, and I'm too broke to buy more right now.

I'm also trying to do my A-Levels, because it has always bugged me that I droped out of school after GCSE's. But they're making me re-do the entire 3 years of high school that I didn't do back then, and it's boring as hell. I'm doing it as correspondence course, and I haven't been submitting homework as much as I should have....

So reading slump plus study slump.

[Suzanne]

Boring doesn't help. I bet you wouldn't be in a slump if the learning was exciting! But wow good for you - that's a great goal.

[Kat]

It's super annoying, to be honest.

I already studied at university in the UK. I sat an entry exam, and did a trial semester, and after that I was free to study what I wanted. But I did not finish my bachelor degree, because I moved away.

But Germany doesn't do entry exams. Your entry exam is your A-Levels. And if your highest high school achievement (that you can prove on paper) are GCSE's, then they make you sit half of high school again.

Having studied 4 semesters worth of Chemistry and Physics at university level doesn't count for shit, because as far as Germany is concerned, I had no permission to even study in the first place without A-Levels, so none of it counts.

If I had finished the degree, THEN it would count.

[Suzanne]

That is a perfect example of how policies can be so very wrong/stupid.

[Kat]

SHADOWLANDS!

[Suzanne]

Are you playing? My time is super limited, but I've enjoyed it so far - a lot of lore!

[Kat]

Not yet - I'm ITCHING to get started, but the last few days were just too busy. I'm planning to plunge in tomorrow during the day. Only have to go to the post office and put the laundry on, and then it's playtime. CAN'T WAIT!

[Suzanne]

Great plan! Have fun!

[Mark]

Hi everyone been watching these book/author panels thought you guys may enjoy them.

https://fanfiaddict.com/tbrcon21/?fbc...

[Ctgt]

Mark wrote: "Hi everyone been watching these book/author panels thought you guys may enjoy them.

https://fanfiaddict.com/tbrcon21/?fbc..."

I saw some ads for them but haven't been able to catch any yet.