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From: BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Aftermarket Afterlife by seanan McGuire
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:14:19 -0500
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On 9/26/2024 9:04 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 9/26/2024 6:45 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> On 9/26/24 15:59, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 9/22/2024 12:58 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>> Just finished yesterday
>>>>
>>>> "Aftermarket afterlife" by Seanan McGuire. this is an novel of a 
>>>> series about a groups of scientists who attempt to preserve cryptid 
>>>> life forms from dragons to boogeymen. They are heretics and escapees 
>>>> from the Covenant of St.George which as you might guess is quite 
>>>> interested in making dragons extinct. They are also the object of 
>>>> worship by the Aeslin mice which talk a lot. I believe that they 
>>>> pretended death and escaped to North America where they do their 
>>>> best to protect the strange creatures most of us ignore. The 
>>>> Covenant in this novel attacks the Dragon Nest in New York City but 
>>>> only kill a female dragon. The male dragon is safe but one of the 
>>>> family members is injured and her husband is killed. Now the main 
>>>> POV here is of one Ghost named Mary Dunleavy who as explained in the 
>>>> story is the Family's babysitter and they can call on her in the 
>>>> dase of distrees. Oliva is a 5 year old human child living in the 
>>>> Dragon nest and Mary rescues her with the aid of Sarah, a cuckoo 
>>>> (not a bird) who has the power of teleportation. And the story goes 
>>>> on from there with Mary assuming the role of a general in protecting 
>>>> her family for which she has been baby-sitting for over 100 years. 
>>>> All in all a very satisfy read.
>>>>
>>>>      The background remark are intended for a person who is
>>>> not reading the series currently.  I try to keep the SA of
>>>> the Team Amiga mailing list well entertained with notes
>>>> about this sort of thing and manga.
>>>>
>>>>      bliss
>>>
>>> Bummer, my cousin's MMPB does not come out until February 25, 2025 
>>> which I have ordered.  Are you reading the ebook or the hardback ?
>>>
>>> https://www.amazon.com/Aftermarket-Afterlife-Seanan-McGuire/ 
>>> dp/0756419727/
>>>
>>> And the next book in the 14 book series comes out in ebook / trade 
>>> paperback on March 11, 2025.  I would guess that the MMPB will be out 
>>> in 2026.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>      Whatever I find in the San Francisco Public Library Genre racks.
>> Some of is on real book shelves. I believe this was a hard cover book.
>>
>>      I do not care for reading text online as it is very hard to
>> reproduce the page format of real books.  I have an excellent computer
>> but the display is 17 inches which I chose because my vision is
>> getting poorer.
>>      On the other hand it is better for manga than for text but
>> even then I prefer the solid paper versions.
>>
>>      bliss
> 
> I spend 10 to 12 hours per day on the computer.  The last thing that I 
> want to do is read a book on the computer.  Dead Trees Rule !
> 
> Lynn
> 
I prefer print, but eBooks will do in a pinch.  In fact I
am trying to build up my digital library because if I have
to go into some kind of care facility I won't be able to
take my personal library with me.  I am building it on a
tablet.  Not as good as a book, but reasonable.

One of the big problems with eBooks is that sometimes the
original book is not available in a word processor format.
Very little before the end of the 20th century is available.
So the book has to be scanned, one page at a time, and then
converted to digital format.  This involves a lot of errors.
So it then has to be proofed carefully to try to get rid of
them.  Sometimes this is not done as carefully as it needs
to be.  So the eBook can have some rather bad errors.  I
have one book that I bought which has quite few errors.
Digitizing a book is pretty good job in and of itself. I
know this for a fact because I have a lot of books in my
library that are out of print, and not available as eBooks.
So I have scanned a bunch of them myself.  There is a lot
of work required to do it right.

Notice that any books that are still in copyright are for
my use only.  Distributing them is strictly against the law.

Bill