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Glad to hear from you Choko! Hope you continue to improve! đź’–
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Hey, Nirkatze... what was the process/requirements from your email with the librarians in New Orleans?... did they want photo proof of address or something?...
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Says you need to appear in-person in 30 days to finish sign up for a permanent card...
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I think I'm going to use the Box Set listings, so I can easily just request 14 threads for book 1-54, 4 books a month, from January 2024 to February 2025... and just tack on the extra material in the threads they fit in chronologically... if the book happens to be in a gap between months (like #12.5, the Andalite Chronicles), it'll be a bit optional which month you do it in, but it's probably best to err towards whichever month doesn't already have an extra book... doing 4 books a month gives some leeway on the 1 book a week structure, and the books are super short at about 200 pages and only 3-4hrs on audio before increasing speed... but the extra material tends to be longer...
Megamorphs, which are larger stories that jump between character POVs, instead of sticking to a single POV per book...
Chronicles (Andalite, Hork-Bijar, Ellemist, Yeerk/Visser, which gives backstory on important alien characters and generally covers a much larger time frame)...
I think I only read about 60-75% of this series as a kid, and read up on the ending years later... this is my chance to hopefully do the whole thing... hopefully I'm not the only one interested (I HAVE been badgering you guys with the idea for months now)...
There are some real nice nostalgia reviews for the series, and how it sparked a love of sci-fi and time travel... and it might be true for me, too... it's definitely one of the earliest sci-fi books I remember... Animorphs & the Magic Tree House...
I guess I'm trying to come up with ways to do bulky BRs like this without just making a Book Club thread... and also to avoid having to edit the thread title, every couple weeks... and to get all the book titles on the BR tracker...
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I'll at least give it a try :D
Timelord Iain wrote: "Also, Nirkatze, are you 100% signed up for the year?... because on the website's new to the library page, I saw this in the sidebar... maybe that's just for local residents, tho?..."Here's what the website says:
https://nolalibrary.org/new-to-the-li...
Non-Residents who do not own property in New Orleans can obtain a Library card online for the cost of $50.00 annually. Use our Ask A Librarian service or email circulationteam@nolalibrary.org for more information.
I'm guessing that the physical ID etc is for checking out physical items--that's where fines come in--for out-of-state folks, it's all digital, and they don't need to worry about sending fines to your home...
All I did was email the contact people and express interest. They sent me a link to an application and I filled it out. They emailed me back with a library card number. I logged in and paid the fee. I was able to log in to Libby right away. The application didn't ask for any identification beyond address and contact info.
Not sure if I'll join animorphs or not... I might try, and see if I like. Hoopla seems to have most of it, but I'm a little leery about a middle grade series, especially since I have no personal nostalgia attached.
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Not sure if it matters, but not mentioned there is the fact that the web player defaults to some OGG file format I don't know anything about, but offers a switch to MP3 a few seconds after loading... I waited for that, before following the rest of the steps, just to be on the safe side...
And you NEED to follow the step to remove &rs=68 from the URL, if you don't want your downloads throttled... seems to make downloading take most of the length of the audiobook, and generally fail at some point... removed, you can download in 5-10 minutes max, depending on your internet speeds...
If you find a solve like that for Kobo, I could use it... lol
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It's a fork of a fork of the Kobo DownLoader (KoboDL)... but
Once you jump through all the hoops, tho, and know your audiobook IDs, I think, you can download your audiobooks with "kobodl get [gibberishNumbersAndLetters}" kind of like how book links work on Goodreads:
[book:Somewhere Beyond the Sea|199444129]
[ book : Somewhere Beyond the Sea | 199444129 ]
would be like saying kobodl get 199444129...
Anyway, there's documentation on that github install page... since I don't use Kobo, I can't be more help... it looks like it's harder, in general, because Kobo doesn't have a browser player...
EDIT: I was wrong about installing python... you can use the pre-build bundles to avoid needing to install python... it's still not a beginner solution... and the maintainer stopped using the program awhile ago, so isn't maintaining it the way he used to... it's going to breakdown eventually...
I am totally saving these comments and will definitely be exploring these... Thank you!!!
So, I have so many BRs linked in my tracker for October that GR is telling me I have hit the character limit for a single comment and won't let me add any more... >.< LOL
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Read 31 books / Buddy Reads already, this month, so I only have 12ish left over the next 13 days... 1 to 1 or less, finally... I keep adding extra, tho...
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So I started digging through my unreads, and one vague extra spooky plan:
Gil's All Fright Diner
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Finwell Bay
Desert Runner (1-3 omnibus, actually)
A Disappearance in Fiji
A Manor of Life & Death
Timelord Iain wrote: "People call me a machine, but you're reading more than I am, and living on basically no sleep..."LOL your page count is higher than mine--I just actually read physical books too.
I'm trying to get over the mid-month hump, then planning on jumping in to the remaining spooktobers...
Though your list is awfully tempting... I still want to get in to those other LitRPG teases from last month... Unorthodox Farming... I would almost just say YES to Gil's All Fright Diner, but none of my libraries have it...
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Puatera is one of my oldest TBR series… I read a few 5 years ago and resisted abandoning, despite the long break… they’re KU read & listens…
Work and life's been super busy lately, haven't had much time to come comment! I've still read some of the BRs, but I haven't been keeping track too well, woops lolHopefully I can spam some of the threads soon!
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LOL your page count is higher than mine--I just actually read physical books..."
And my pagecount wouldn't be higher if you read as much as you have since June, in January thru May, as well...
I ride mostly on consistency, with occasional dips... most months this year I read about 15k pages... had a few strong months, and one weak month...
You read 11-13k pages/month from January to May, and 17-20k/month since then...
We're riding pretty even this month... but you already took a 50 point lead after you filled in everything for September, because ebooks like you said... 25% bonus points...
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... maybe I'm a smidge competitive with competition points/stats tho... at least when someone is close to me... I don't worry about it when someone is way ahead or behind me, but when positions can move/flip, I get a bit more competitive...
Soo generally read 50-100% more than me, so it wasn't worth being competitive about, when she was reading all the time...
Only a smidge? LOL
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Timelord Iain wrote: "Having more mega-readers around to Buddy Read with is great...... maybe I'm a smidge competitive with competition points/stats tho... at least when someone is close to me... I don't worry about i..."
LOL I love the gif, and the nagging...
I am definitely guilty of checking the main points page on occasion, and looking at everyone else's statistics...
Timelord Iain wrote: "You read 11-13k pages/month from January to May, and 17-20k/month since then..."
Huh... I think that was when I bumped up my listening speed from 2-2.5 to 2.7-3.5... spent some time training over the summer, finally got more-or-less used to audiobooks while multi-tasking... I guess it doesn't hurt that since I'm getting less sleep, I'm awake and listening or reading more... >.< I'm sure it'll die down eventually...
Your both reading machines!!!! I try to keep up but y’all and Soo are at another level Lol
Oh gods, Soo is in a level all by herself. I remember when I first joined the group... I used to think I read a lot--3-4 books a week, eyebook only... but then I met y'all and I was like... nope.So when Iain was talking about competitive spirit... yeah. It was probably partially a similarly kindred competitiveness that drove me to train my audiobook skills... *cue Eye of the Tiger training sequence with audiobooks*
Hahaha. Yep the competitiveness gets me too. I think the best thing about Choko, Iain, and Soo is they make me read books I might not have even considered.
Yeah I don't have enough time in the day to keep up the reading machines :D I also can't function on less than 6 hours of sleep, I don't know how you do it Nirkatze!
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I get to do some reading at work, tho... I think that's the other difference...
Yeah... I can't exactly sneak an audiobook in while lecturing to students... I've definitely thought about it some days though... but it keeps me sane during hours of grading and planning...re: sleep... not sure how I do it either... I think it's just necessity... and I'm on my feet all day at work, which helps keep awake... I probably am vampiring energy off my students... I usually crash for a 2 hour nap when I get home, then am grading/planning/creating until wee hours of the morning, get as much sleep as I can, back up rinse & repeat... and I sleep for like, 14 hours on weekends.
@Iain I finally did it. Finished book 10 of Malazan. Amazing series
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Now you can fall down the rabbithole that is the wiki... it has a bunch of trivia and stuff from author interviews/etc...
Example: The Crippled God's name is Kaminsod (not sure if/where that's mentioned in the books)... Kaminsod = Cam & Steve = Ian C. Esslemont & Steven Erickson :D
Interesting. Yeah I’ve been surfing fandom Glad I finished it. Now I can get back to some BRs
Grats Brian! That's a huge accomplishment!
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Really wasn't feeling my options today, after finishing Black Jewels, and jumped over to a re-read I've been wanting to do for awhile, so I can read the finale:
Bobby Dollar / Doloriel, and angel-focused series by Tad Williams:
The Dirty Streets of Heaven
Happy Hour in Hell
Sleeping Late on Judgement Day
I also just discovered this epilogue exists, and I have to read it:
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlepig
I have Dirty Streets of Heaven. Might start it too today
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Jumping back into the BR game with both feet...
I read the first 2 of these several years ago, but honestly remember almost nothing about them... some names sound vaguely familiar, but that could be from vague biblical knowledge and/or the blurbs...
The MC has read Sandman Slim vibes (Richard Kadrey)...
Oh yay, more TBR fodder! Shame none of it in my libraries (again)... grr...
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@Iain. About halfway though the Dirty Streets of Heaven. Pretty good premise and characters with some decent humor. A little concerned with book 2 reviews but will probably keep doing
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Re:2nd: invading hell seems pretty common in angelic Urban Fantasy… can think of at least 3 other series where it happened…
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Main concern is it's only up to floor 8, so far, and it sounds like it'll be going to floor 18, if he doesn't exit early... altho anything past floor 10-12 is going to be bonkers, since nobody has ever survived for more than 5 minutes on floor 13+?...
Sounds like the first book covers the first 2 tutorial floors, then each book is it's own floor, which gets to have it's own theme... from the cover/blurb, book 7/floor 8 is a card battler...
This also lends the series a Books of Babel vibe: Senlin Ascends
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What is Running Man? Foot Fetish... sounds weird.
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And the foot fetish stuff is in super short bursts... the messed up AI seems to have a foot fetish, and you can hear it biting it's lip when it explains the skills the MC has unlocked for barefoot combat... the MC was vastly unprepared when the world changed and he entered the dungeon... it was 3am, and he was outside in boxers and a jacket, barefoot, trying to get his (ex's) cat back in the house...
The whole world/game has a sense of humor, so he remains largely stuck in his boxers for at least the first couple books if not the whole series, because he complained so much about wanting pants in the first half of the first book, before learning how the lootboxes are tailored for ratings on the game show aspect... also, I think he keeps getting skills/traits that reward him for not getting pants/shoes... so getting them later on would weaken him when he can't afford it...
That does sound pretty funny! Looks like things are slowing down come December... I'll probably finally have time for some of these random BRs...re: Running Man--only reference I'm familiar with is the marathon... have to look it up...
I really liked Running Man! One of the first audiobooks I ever listened to funnily enough.. I got into audio originally because my mom had a bunch of Stephen King in her library..But glad you liked Dungeon Crawler Carl Iain! I've been wanting to continue it since I read it.
October was ridiculously busy for me.. Hoping November will slow down a bit.
Congrats on finishing Malazan Brian! Have you read Esselmont's stuff yet?
LOL Emily, that sounds suspiciously like "Grats on Finish... but are you sure you're finished?"
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