Terry Pratchett - 39 Discworld books

[rantanplan]

chrisridd's description is on-point. I just redeemed my bundle, too. I just needed to switch my humblebundle profile to US (which I neglected, previously) and used a VPN.
You may then use https://pypi.org/project/kobodl/ or the obok plugin to unDRM your purchased books.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by chrisridd

Now, back to arguing the toss with posters who believe they know better than a book's author.

Perhaps they do. I do some ebook editing & formatting as a sideline. Some of the authors I've worked with can and will do 'interesting' things to the English language.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Perhaps they do. I do some ebook editing & formatting as a sideline. Some of the authors I've worked with can and will do 'interesting' things to the English language.

Sometimes it takes someone else to see things in your art, no matter what medium, that you did/put there without realizing it. When I was a music major I took composition lessons and the instructor made me perform all the pieces I wrote. When I did a piece for soprano and piano, I had to find a vocalist and her private instructor insisted I come to her lessons so she could hear us perform together. She taught me things about my own musical composition that I didn't know were there, such as one piano passage being evocative of strings and needing to be played that way. It was a humbling experience in a way, but also amazing.

Typos aren't quite the same, but I'll bet skilled copy editors regularly notice good and bad things that authors never realized they'd written.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Manabi

She taught me things about my own musical composition that I didn't know were there, such as one piano passage being evocative of strings and needing to be played that way. It was a humbling experience in a way, but also amazing.

You have that in common with Graham Greene, among others, I'm certain! I remember reading his quoting a letter from a reader, pointing out an element in one of his novels to which he'd been oblivious. Art transcends, it's obvious, even the medium.

Going off on a tangent, but it's why I don't much care what an author/artist meant. The work must speak for itself.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

chrisridd's description is on-point. I just redeemed my bundle, too. I just needed to switch my humblebundle profile to US (which I neglected, previously) and used a VPN.
You may then use https://pypi.org/project/kobodl/ or the obok plugin to unDRM your purchased books.

I use Proton VPN and don't even have a humblebundle profile, so had nothing to change, but even with a US IP I kept getting warning boxes saying "this bundle is only available to people living the US"

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

I use Proton VPN and don't even have a humblebundle profile, so had nothing to change, but even with a US IP I kept getting warning boxes saying "this bundle is only available to people living the US"

Did you change your country in the user settings?
https://www.humblebundle.com/user/settings

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Native North Americans no doubt regard English, Spanish, French and German (some Amish?) as colonial imports?
Also Spanish ought to be as official as English in the USA, though I can't imagine they speak it like people in Madrid.

No, I can say for sure they don't

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Did you change your country in the user settings?
https://www.humblebundle.com/user/settings

I have no account there, I just clicked on the link to that bundle directly. It did not say I had to create a user account, although it did recommend doing so. With no country set, I would have expected it to default to the one in which the IP was locate.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Did you change your country in the user settings?
https://www.humblebundle.com/user/settings

If you register outside the U.S.A., as I did, and then try to change your location [Peru for me], you get a greyed-out box and this information that pops up:

"Location setting may only be updated to the place that you are currently located in."

(I initially registered without using a VPN, as I had just last week cancelled renewal of NordVPN. I'm currently not using a VPN. I may be out of sh** luck.)

[salty-horse]

I changed my country setting while connecting from the US and it worked fine.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Sadly, Jon has a very rigid opinion that the way things are done in the USA is the only true way. Though his repeated opinion that the UK is not the home of English is rather humorous. Where else were Norman men-at-arms trying to pick up Saxon barmaids?

As a Canadian, we can take or leave the extra u's. Mostly we take them.

The UK is the home of Olde English. Modern English not so much. Americans had Noah Webster to help modernize English.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

chrisridd's description is on-point. I just redeemed my bundle, too. I just needed to switch my humblebundle profile to US (which I neglected, previously) and used a VPN.
You may then use https://pypi.org/project/kobodl/ or the obok plugin to unDRM your purchased books.

Why would you need to install either of those when you can easily download Discworld as ePub and remove the DRM with calibre/DeDRM? Plus you havr the Discworld book in ePub. Win-win.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The UK is the home of Olde English. Modern English not so much. Americans had Daniel Webster to help modernize English.

Noah Webster. Please fix your post.

[Dr. Drib]

But...as can be clearly observable, Daniel Webster really LOVED the Discworld series.

[maddz]

One thing about travelling for the bundle, make sure you use Paypal. Someone tried using a VPN but failed because he used a UK credit card. I'm ambivalent about the bundle - I'm really only after the City Watch sub-series (I have 3 as ebook), the rest I'm happy to leave.