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Lost Metal's the one Sanderson said "from here on out, the gloves are off" as far as cosmere connections are concerned...
Hmmm... I might post the Cosmere idea in the invite thread, and see who bites...I'll give it a few days though... don't want to scare people with two big series at once... see what Dune stirs up...
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Sep 1, 2025 Overgrowth by Mira Grant
Sep 2, 2025 Pale Demon (Hollows #9) by Kim Harrison
Sep 3, 2025 Archangel's Heart (Guild Hunter #9) by Nalini Singh
Sep 3, 2025 House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City #3) by Sarah J. Maas
Sep 3, 2025 The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Sep 4, 2025 The League of Unusual Denizens (Circles in Hell #8) by Mark Cain
Sep 4, 2025 Noah the Red (Neverstone #3) by Ned Caratacus
Sep 5, 2025 Aftermarket Afterlife (InCryptid #13) by Seanan McGuire
Sep 6, 2025 The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle #2) by Peter V. Brett
Sep 7, 2025 Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sep 7, 2025 The King of Plagues (Joe Ledger #3) by Jonathan Maberry
Sep 7, 2025 The Giver of Stars by Jojo Mojes
Sep 8, 2025 We Few (Empire of Man #4) by David Weber & John Ringo
Sep 8, 2025 Spirits, Diamonds, and a Drive-thru Daiquiri Stand (Pyper Rayne #4) by Deanna Chase
Sep 9, 2025 The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4) by Matt Dinniman
Sep 9, 2025 Generation Ship by Michael Mammay
Sep 10, 2025 The Heir of Caladan (Dune: Caladan #3) by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Sep 10, 2025 A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) by Becky Chambers
Sep 11, 2025 The Hod King (Books of Babel #3) by Josiah Bancroft
Sep 11, 2025 Water Sleeps (Black Company #8) by Glen Cook
Sep 11, 2025 Fortune's Ashes (Supernatural London: Firebrand #7) by Helen Harper
Sep 12, 2025 Peacemaker (Foreigner #15) by C.J. Cherryh
Sep 13, 2025 The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Sep 14, 2025 The Jaguar Path (The Songs of the Drowned #2) by Anna Stephens
Sep 14, 2025 Grim Tuesday (Keys to the Kingdom #2) by Garth Nix
Sep 15, 2025 Harmony Black (First Story: Harmony Black #1) by Heather Schaefer (as Craig)
Sep 15, 2025 Ruin and Rising (Grisha #3) by Leigh Bardugo
Sep 16, 2025 Bad Moon (Elizabeth Cage #4) by Jodi Taylor
Sep 16, 2025 Torch of Freedom (Honorverse: Wages of Sin #2) by David Weber & Eric Flint
Sep 16, 2025 The Air War (Shadows of the Apt #8) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sep 17, 2025 Babel by R. F. Kuang
Sep 18, 2025 The Antventure Begins (Chrysalis #1) by RinoZ
Sep 18, 2025 Stormsworn (Steamborn #9) by Eric R. Asher
Sep 18, 2025 Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater #4) by Christopher Ruocchio
Sep 19, 2025 Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen #3) by Steven Erikson
Sep 19, 2025 Betrayer (Horus Heresy #24) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Sep 20, 2025 Dragons of a Vanished Moon (Dragonlance: War of Lost Souls #3) by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Sep 21, 2025 BuyMort: Singularity (Shopocalypse Saga #7) by Joseph Phelps & Damien Hansen
Sep 22, 2025 The Truth (Discworld #25) by Terry Pratchett
Sep 22, 2025 Rando Splicer (Spiral Wars #6) by Joel Shepherd
Sep 22, 2025 Infinite Archive (Midsolar Murders #3) by Mur Lafferty
Sep 23, 2025 Second Hand Curses by Drew Hayes
Sep 24, 2025 Stank Delicious (Hard Luck Hank #5) by Steven Campbell
Sep 25, 2025 A Dance With Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire #5) by George R.R. Martin
Sep 25, 2025 All Dwarf'd Up (Dwarf Bounty Hunter #3) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle
Sep 26, 2025 Sightwitch (Witchlands #2.5) by Susan Dennard
Sep 27, 2025 He Who Fights With Monsters 11 (HWFWM #11) by Shirtaloon
Sep 28, 2025 The Queen of Sorrow (The Queens of Renthia #3) by Sarah Beth Durst
Sep 29, 2025 The Fractured Dark (Devoured Worlds #2) by Megan O'Keefe
In addition to these, the Oh-Crap-We-Bought-It aka Sales Club is reading some standalones for September:5th: The Society of Unknowable Objects
15th: Elder Race
25th: Once Was Willem
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Does anyone use color e book readers like Kobo Color or Kindle colorsoft? Worth it? Any recommendations?I majorly read hard copies or kindle. Read graphic novels quite a bit and so far have been doing so on my ipad (which is dying :D).
P.S.: We don't have kindle colorsoft in India, so will have to get it from the US.
I have a Kobo Clara Color which I bought as a backup to my Kobo Aura. I still prefer my Aura, but then I'm more used to it and the software displays my book formatting choices better.I'll put my ebooks with art on my Clara, and it's pretty cool to be able to admire them in color rather than black and white. The Devils, Sanderson's Secret Projects... sometimes I'll search for fanart and add it to my epubs for the experience.
Otherwise, the reading experience is fairly similar. The touchscreen on the Clara is a bit more sensitive than my Aura, with better refresh time. But it also has slightly shorter battery life for use. I probably have to charge it once every 1-2 weeks, while my Aura is more like 3-4 weeks (and this is with reading 1-2 books a week). The Clara also has more bugs than the Aura... or maybe I should say different bugs. Every now and then the Clara will tell me I don't have authorization to read my sideloaded books, but plugging it in to the computer usually solves that. Every now and then my Aura freezes and I have to hard restart it.
The base page color on the Clara is slightly more yellow than on my Aura, and so color images are also slightly darker than they appear on my computer and not quite as sharp as a black and white. I don't really use the highlight feature much, but the colors are nifty. If you like to mark up the book, being able to choose color differences in highlighting might be useful.
Ultimately, it's a toss up though. I got it because the prices were pretty much the same between color & B&W when I was looking for a backup ereader, and I decided to try something different rather than more of the same. If I'd been able to buy the exact same model as my Aura, I probably would've gotten that instead. The color is a novelty and fun, but it doesn't affect the reading experience for me. I haven't tried reading a graphic novel or manga or anything--the book screen is a bit smaller than a typical manga size, but the resolution is pretty good so it'd probably be fine.
If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer. I definitely prefer Kobo over any other reader, but then I hate proprietary software so refuse to ever get a Kindle.
Got it. Thanks Nirkatze. Nah i don't highlight much.. i just read through. Unfortunately i didn't transfer my books to laptop in Feb when kindle announced it's going to stop allowing transfer of it's ebooks. Let me research a bit, but then otherwise i guess I'm stuck with it. :|
Grrrrrrr... that does sound annoying. But maybe you can find something that will work, after its been out long enough for folks to tackle the issue.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "Can you no longer email ebooks?... Kindle devices and apps have unique email addresses you can find on your Amazon account page, to email epub/mobi files you get from author newsletters to read/etc..."Yes, they still have the email option, I was able to send a free Ryan Cahill book to the kindle.
It's about if I switch to Kobo now, then how much of a pain it's going to be to download the books and load to kobo (I don't know if it's possible, but you might be right that someone would have figured out a hack - I will have to check the steps).
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Mitali wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Can you no longer email ebooks?... Kindle devices and apps have unique email addresses you can find on your Amazon account page, to email epub/mobi files you get from author n..."Can you download the Kindle app to the Kobo?
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To extract with Kindle for PC, you need the old 2.4 version...
I haven't tried in a while but Amazon made a change that the old mod I used to remove the DRM no longer worked on books published after a certain date. I tried a few times to get an updated mod and find the right Kindle version for my PC but I gave up eventually. It was very annoying.
Someone please talk me off the ledge! There is a guy on TikTok that is in the process of reading Stormlight Archives for the first time and he is like 2/3 of the way through W&T and I want to re-read it! He is nearly at the part when the Shallan reveal happens/is confirmed and I keep checking to see if he posted about it because he loves Taln as much as I do and I can't wait foe him to realize Taln didn't break!!!! <3
I need to post my mega-cosmere read-a-thon plans in Buddy Read Invites soon... can you hold out for that?Also, as for the DRM stuff... give it a few months and someone'll crack it.
Nirkatze wrote: "I need to post my mega-cosmere read-a-thon plans in Buddy Read Invites soon... can you hold out for that?"There is a chance I started Hero of Ages even though I got the ending spoiled and initially didn't want to read it but finally figured just suck it up and read it, quit being a baby. I listened to the first 2 parts yesterday so a little more than a third of the way through. I'd be interested in a Cosmere read though. Also the guy finally got to the part I was waiting for him to get to! Spoiler for SA:
https://www.tiktok.com/@jedibrian/vid...
Ann-Marie wrote: "Someone please talk me off the ledge! There is a guy on TikTok that is in the process of reading Stormlight Archives for the first time and he is like 2/3 of the way through W&T and I want to re-re..."I have nothing to add expect ❤️ cuz man I love that series. I say while STILL at 55% through Isles off the Emberdark 😭
Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Ann-Marie wrote: "Someone please talk me off the ledge! There is a guy on TikTok that is in the process of reading Stormlight Archives for the first time and he is like 2/3 of the way through W&T a..."Isles didn't grab me so since a Cosmere read is in the works I think I'll keep it on the side and try again when we get to it then.
I think Isles has a bigger impact the more Cosmere you have under your belt... but also I might have a book crush on Dusk.
Nirkatze wrote: "I think Isles has a bigger impact the more Cosmere you have under your belt... but also I might have a book crush on Dusk."That is what I was thinking, I haven't read enough Cosmere to make this mean something.
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Nirkatze wrote: "I think Isles has a bigger impact the more Cosmere you have under your belt... but also I might have a book crush on Dusk."I’ve read every cosmere book, most of them multiple times. Still couldn’t get into this one. 😞
I finished Hero of Ages last night and I enjoyed it despite how it ended, which i knew going in because it got spoiled for me on Reddit a while back. I wish it had ended differently for sure but overall I really liked it.
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The ENDING sucked, (view spoiler) It was not a bad ending that was rage inducing but I'd have definitely preferred an alternate one for sure :)
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Nirkatze wrote: "Definitely takes balls, to [spoilers removed]"Right???? I went in knowing it would happen and it still sucked! Maybe (view spoiler)
I liked the way it ended. It was totally unexpected. But I also liked the Divergent series ending for that same reason, and I know basically everyone else raged against that one.
Diana Stormblessed wrote: "I liked the way it ended. It was totally unexpected. But I also liked the Divergent series ending for that same reason, and I know basically everyone else raged against that one."I didn't hate it but yeah, I would have been happier if it had ended differently.
Ann-Marie wrote: "Nirkatze wrote: "Definitely takes balls, to [spoilers removed]"Right???? I went in knowing it would happen and it still sucked! Maybe [spoilers removed]"
If you really want to know--(view spoiler)
@Ann-Marie, if you don't want to open Nirkatze's spoiler, you get an answer to your question in post 6530 in another book.
I read the spoiler and in fact I did really want to know and was happy to hear it! Thanks for the less spoilery answer though Narilka but something like this I am like I need to know! lol
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Timelord Iain wrote: "There are 2 main character deaths in the Cosmere that are reversed... and after the second one, Sanderson released a post on his blog on the topic, basically saying "don't expect it to happen a thi..."My guesses: (view spoiler)
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(view spoiler)
That's if you want answers, like I know you do... spoils a bit more than you currently know, and then reminds you of alot you already knew for the second one...
Timelord Iain wrote: "Ann-Marie wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "There are 2 main character deaths in the Cosmere that are reversed... and after the second one, Sanderson released a post on his blog on the topic, basically..."My first guess I knew was returned from the dead, it was implied then confirmed in Wind and Truth and the second guess we discussed when we read the SA, I forget which book but yeah I remembered that "death" that wasn't and I am happy Sanderson realized his mistake and fixed it lol
I need a motivation to read more Czech Fantasy so I have kinda been thinking if I could BR it with people here. Unfortunately they are not being translated to English with some exceptions. Some are translated to other languages, though. So thinking that I came up with a whole idea of creating bookclub where we could read books not available in English. We would still discuss in English as we could be reading different language versions and maybe some would choose to read in language they are still learning. Would people be interested in this idea? And would it be allowed or would that be found too restrictive towards other members? It is why I am suggesting a book club rather than adding the BRs officially. Personally I could read in Czech (obviously) and Portuguese. And possibly something simple in Japanese (haven't spoken or reviewed it for like 6 years so it's very dead).
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Czech version of Dungeon Crawler Carl has it's own cover art and I really love it. I just don't love that they translated absolutely everything to the point of localising Donut's name to Czech pastry lol.
Detail of the art: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Bk...
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That cover is glorious. Kudos to the artist.
I hope the book is a success and whole series gets translated so we get new art for all the books. It seems like the illustrator actually read the book or was given detailed instructions. I am pretty sure the fluff Donut sits on is explicitly in the book, like she wanted to make the ride more beautiful. And ofc the sparkly feet...Edit: The illustrator actually mentions he had read the book in the art description. I wish that was a standard practice but probably not always feasible timewise.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonCrawl...
The full booksleeve is viewable, used in the Hardback as the background to the front cover, inside jackets, and back cover, with blurb and author bio...
That's also in the link I have shared 😉Love the bathroom door inclusion. Just sells the unhinged vibes.
Reddit is really going crazy over the art. I can see people not speaking Czech buying it just for the cover. The sales might be really good lol.
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