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Path: ...!news.snarked.org!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Adventures in Book Archiving Date: 23 Apr 2025 19:31:47 GMT Organization: loft Lines: 37 Message-ID: <m6sth3F45sU1@mid.individual.net> References: <robertaw-0310E7.09502323042025@news.individual.net> <vube4m$3oplm$1@dont-email.me> X-Trace: individual.net WpN0CnFENox94Ll3U7uwJAvdkUCGZQInDIgVZcnyxHfn2b1GaZ X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:lcrUK0148yPxm1kIu5JERVMj9Dg= sha256:SBxlNO4yJ6sWNHein/I0svuPzcKulsPul0s0cqpjUfM= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Bytes: 2417 In article <vube4m$3oplm$1@dont-email.me>, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote: >On 4/23/25 12:50 PM, Robert Woodward wrote: >> I have run out of space for new books on my shelves and have no place to >> put new shelves. Since I don't want to move, I have been preparing to >> put books in storage. Thus, I have been downloading e-book editions of >> books (so they will still be available to me when the hardcopy is in >> storage). However, I have run into cases where books, published since >> the late 1990s, don't have e-book editions. For example, Patricia >> McKillip's _The Tower at Stoney Wood_, doesn't have one, while _The Book >> of Atrix Wolfe_ and _Song of the Basilisk_, published before it, and >> _Ombria in Shadow_ and others, published after it, all have e-book >> editions. BTW, all were published by the same publisher. >> > >As Ted mentioned, you may do better with "Stony", but I also wanted to >point out that sometimes the e-book is part of an omnibus or collection. > >The isfdb listing for The Tower at Stony Wood >( https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?21395 ) >says there is an e-book edition as part of a three-book omnibus.[1] > >Tony >[1] Which may or may not be available in the US, if that matters. It's definitely available from amazon.com.au if you want to VPN it: https://www.amazon.com.au/Tower-at-Stony-Wood-ebook/dp/B015DSVP1Q also, you can read it for free online from https://archive.org/details/toweratstonywood0000mcki if you create an account, and if nobody else is reading it at the time. -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..