A series of random statements

[neadods]

I hope I can find my "Sherdoc" icon on the hard drive of the backup computer, because LJ appears to have eaten it. Dang. I'm fond of it.

I'm glad I got the audio download of Pratchett's latest book, because there has been a lot of discussion online about massive typos in the electronic and even printed versions. Wow. A major publisher working with one of their major writers and nobody actually checks the proofs? Listening takes a lot longer than reading, but Stephen Briggs doesn't throw me out of the story with mispronunciations.

Speaking of audio and people named Briggs, the first of the Big Finish Sherlock Holmes S2 audios is up for download. This time they're doing audios of canonical stories, although they've picked an odd set to start with. I'll check 'em out... I want to support this series, but I found S1 far more meta than I was in the mood for.

Tonight I'm going to pass on the wool for soldier's hats. I think I'm also going to pass on the good condition paperback mysteries out of the WTF do I do with these? stack for Stockings for Soldiers. (For those on the "list 'em!" team, there are still going to be plenty of things to list. Like signed first editions.)

The ethical dilemma du jour is if I should volunteer for a clinic shift this weekend, and if I should be volunteering more often anyway. I'm leaning towards "not" as it's going to be a long weekend and I've got a crapload to do, but... well, but.

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[neadods.livejournal.com]

Two prices? How odd. I've been buying in iBook format, which doesn't have that discrepancy. And while it will take heavy machinery to pry my print Pratchett away, I'm probably going to get most of them in ebook too because I like the idea of having them with me always.

[fyrdrakken]

Amazon is really used to multiple prices for slightly varying formats or different editions, so I'm not actually all that surprised to see Kindle reissues at differing prices. I actually noticed it as I was going through my wishlist a week or two back -- I think doing a bit of birthday money pre-shopping, figuring out what I wanted to buy the most -- and noticed some items on my wishlist were no longer available. The editions I'd originally wishlisted were no longer available -- but I was able to find all of the titles in question, still in Kindle format, just in different editions. I think there was some standardizing and consolidation of format going on -- and I suspect those pricier earlier Kindle versions of the Discworld books may gradually disappear and be entirely replaced by the new black-cover versions.

Then again, I tried to buy Jingo before leaving for my grandfather's a few days ago (the internet access and phone signal at his house being shoddy and intermittent) and shopping via my Kindle app it was only the $8 version that was showing up in my search. I came in to work today and did some searching around and was able to refind the $5 black-cover version -- notice A) how there are fifty jillion versions of the title and B) how the black-cover version shows the $8 e-book but the $8 e-book doesn't show the $5 version.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

the black-cover version shows the $8 e-book but the $8 e-book doesn't show the $5 version.

No real surprise there. Annoying, but not surprising.