kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (wood cat)Kate ([personal profile] kate_nepveu) wrote,
@ 2011-07-27 07:45 am UTC
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Certainly by the time SteelyKid is old enough to read Bujold, she will have an e-book reader or equivalent of her own (and thus access to the entire Vorkosigan saga).

(The "B" paperback shelves will also look much different now that the NYPL has the first twelve Dresden Files in two omnibus e-book editions.)

Not sure what this means for our Pratchett paperbacks, which she might read younger, though. Hmm.


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mkozlows: (idol)


[personal profile] mkozlows
2011-07-27 05:11 pm UTC (link)
I would think that by the time she can read Pratchett, you'd trust her with your old, antique e-readers.

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marydell: My hand holding a medusa head sculpture (by me) that's missing its snakes (medusa)


[personal profile] marydell
2011-07-27 05:59 pm UTC (link)
+1

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kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (wood cat)


[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2011-07-27 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, realistically it's not _that_ soon . . .

. . . and oh, hey, look at that, even now there's a bunch of his backlist at the NYPL too, though not all of it (and in mobi, which I had a little difficulty with in the past, but I'll try again).

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marydell: My hand holding a medusa head sculpture (by me) that's missing its snakes (medusa)


[personal profile] marydell
2011-07-27 06:00 pm UTC (link)
I just had this same epiphany about my own book weeding.

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kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (wood cat)


[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2011-07-27 06:09 pm UTC (link)
Of course there are still things that don't have e-book editions yet that we'll hang on to, but the category of "keep for SteelyKid to read" just shrunk drastically.

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flea: (me)


[personal profile] flea
2011-07-27 06:54 pm UTC (link)
I know a 7 year old who just read Wee Free Men. It's sooner than you think!

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kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (wood cat)


[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2011-07-27 06:59 pm UTC (link)
Awesome! What'd she think?

(But even by the time SteelyKid is seven, I bet she has her own thing to read e-books on. I mean, we just gave her own digital camera . . . )

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[personal profile] flea
2011-07-27 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Someone else's 7 year old, not mine. Mine's not that good a reader yet (though she ADORES the Bone graphic novels). But the other 7 year old LOVED Wee Free Men (which I have never read myself).

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[identity profile] raincitygirl.livejournal.com
2011-07-29 01:40 am UTC (link)
"The Wee Free Men" is oddly excellent for a children's book. I devoured it in about two days, and have now sent off via Amazon for the subsequent Tiffany Aching books. Yes, the first one was different from Pratchett's adult Discworld novels, but he doesn't talk down to the reader in the way I was half expecting. It's definitely a book an adult could enjoy a good deal, if they don't mind having a child as the main POV character. And Tiffany is quite a grown-up 10 year old, so her POV doesn't get cloying.

I delayed reading it for a long time because I *hated* the pictsies when they were introduced in "Carpe Jugulum". But in this context they're awesome.

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kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (wood cat)


[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2011-07-29 02:38 am UTC (link)
Pratchett's YAs certainly do not talk down to kids, and are generally thought to be more serious than his adult books. _Nation_ is recent and terrific; I also like the Bromeliad and the Johnny Maxwell books.

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[personal profile] mkozlows
2011-07-27 09:14 pm UTC (link)
So what are your keeper criteria?

Mine are: 1) Graphic novels, 2) non-fiction, 3) editions of physical note (signed Master Li, red leather LOTR), and 4) really excellent books that just aren't available in any way.

Pile 4 has already shrunk significantly from my first purge six months ago.

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kate_nepveu: Nazgul on winged beast before Barad-dur (LotR: The Two Towers)


[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2011-07-28 02:02 am UTC (link)
My overarching criteria is, will I actually (re-)read this paper book?

(Chad and I each have veto power, and his criteria may differ. But a significant portion of the collection, particularly the paperbacks, are just mine.)

So graphic novels stay (though the Sandman trades will probably go now that we have the Absolute editions).

I have very few books of physical note--the red leather LotR is actually on my purge list, but I think I will keep the UK paperbacks that this icon is from, because I went between them and the ebook for the re-read. (Chad has a three-volume hardcover set of LotR too, and I don't know if he'll want to keep those.) I think I may also keep the complete Dark Tower series, for all that I doubt I will ever re-read because I hate the ending, partly because you can't get the unrevised first book any more and partly because the later books are gorgeous physical things.

Most books that I have duplicate ebooks of, or can get ebooks of easily, will go. (Possible exceptions: would leave the series incomplete on the shelf; might be nice to have paper as reference (_JS&MN_, Dorothy Dunnett).)

Almost all of my unread fiction is going, because if I haven't read them by now it's time to admit I'm not going to. (Some of them I brought back from London. In 1997.)

And books that aren't necessarily available now in ebook, but that I'm just not ever going to re-read, are going.

It's going to be a _lot_ of books we're getting rid of. I can't wait.

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[personal profile] mmcirvin
2011-07-29 03:30 am UTC (link)
We have quite a few books in the basement which... well, let's say Nestor is a naughty, naughty cat.

A while back one of my LJ friends, prog I think, linked to a long reddit thread in which people were lamenting the demise of paper books, and he pointed out that they kept talking about the smell of them. Yeah, I've got your book-smell right here.

They're obviously not sellable, nor are they really useable. It appears that there are firms willing to recycle books, though curbside won't do it.

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kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (wood cat)


[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2011-07-29 02:38 pm UTC (link)
Oh dear. Hope those firms work out, since it's not like you're really eager, I imagine, to strip off the covers and pull out the pages each to make them curbside-recyclable . . .

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