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Subject: Re: (review) The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 17:02:19 +1300
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On 2/04/25 10:13, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <vshkjo$1pkr$1@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/1/2025 2:27 PM, Tony Nance wrote:
>>> On 3/27/25 9:39 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>> The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold
>>>>
>>>> Efforts to decontaminate a radioactive zone on Barrayar produce
>>>> an entirely unexpected discovery.
>>>>
>>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/yonder-stands-your-orphan
>>>
>>> I spend enough of my work time reading a screen that I don't enjoy 
>>> reading for pleasure on one. But works like this one -- not available on 
>>> paper to this point -- make me sorely tempted to put up with it anyway.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>
>> Ebooks are slowly killing all of the deadtree reprints.  I hate ebooks.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
> 
> Well, you could always print it out yourself.  Of course then it
> wouldn't be "well bound" :-)

Today I bought my seventh new Kindle, (three were for gifts), and the
only possible superior benefit of a dead tree book compared to an ebook
that I can think of is the cover staring back at you from the bookcase.
This 7 inch 300ppi power off screen shows the book cover but not in colour.
With regard to Tony's original point, I occasionally read short stories
on the PC screen which I find tiring but the Paperwhite Kindles screen
is clearer than real paper for me and not tiring. But I usually read
first and read the screen later in the day.