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I agree re the prose. It was evident even in translation. The Strugatsky brothers have written some good things too, but I find much of their stuff somewhat depressing. Still, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel is another of my top ten fav books (again in a superb Estonian translation from Russian). Hard to Be a God and Roadside Picnic are also good. |
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As originally published, "Against The Fall of Night" would be classified as a novella or a short novel. It was published in Startling Stories, November, 1948, Volume 18, No. 2. It was later revised and expanded in 1951 and published in book form in 1953 by Gnome Press. Last edited by Dr. Drib; 10-02-2021 at 07:39 AM. |
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https://archive.org/details/Startlin...v18n02_1948-11 Here's the original magazine installments of the Foundation series. https://www.reddit.com/r/asimov/comm...ce_fiction_in/ |
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I was aware of this, but I want to thank you, especially for individuals who may not be aware of archive.com. ![]() Aside: I wish the scans were better and without the yellow. I have an old Ipad, and that's the only way these can be read. I tried various ebook readers that I own, but the page-turn delay is unacceptable. |
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Works plenty fast enough even on an old Onyx Nova Gen 1. I zip it up into a .cbr or .cbz and it's treated like a comic. The old pictures are interesting.
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I rarely use my Aura One anymore, which would work for a cbr. I now use (almost exclusively) my Kindle Oasis 3, which will not read cbr. (I have no desire to do any kind of jail breaking - even if available - to achieve this. And the Kindle does not read cbr. The problem is the yellow tint on those scans. |
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It is for cases like this that I own an Onyx. The combo of the hardware (speed, screen size in landscape) and software (Neoreader, and other app options) make it generally possible to read nearly any scans. YMMV. Neoreader is very good at filtering images to be readable. Last edited by Pajamaman; 10-03-2021 at 12:12 PM. |
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Can you give some more detail on this, please. What program on the Onyx allows one to remove (or tone down?) the yellow? Thanks. |
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Maybe similar to the Likebook Mars eink. The supplied reader does PDF and epub, it's poor for epub so I use KOReader for that.
But on PDF you can adjust the white level, black level (and on real text PDF, the font weight) and "watermarks". Makes the grey on yellow (as PC previewed) perfectly black on white. Also has manual, semi automatic, automatic and none for crop. Could it be FBreader? Before that to read on Kobo or Kindle: 1) Import PDF to The GIMP choosing required DPI taking account of cropping and eventual screen size. It creates a layer per page. Then export layers in reversed order as a motion png. This step is only because Image Magick on my computer can't read PDFs for security reasons, I could disable that protection, but a bad idea. Works on password protected PDFs 2) Convert the mpng to PDF (needs security setting) using Image Magick. It allows conversion to 16 levels, Black, White and 14 greys. You can set brightness and contrast to have good paper white and black text. You can set the XY offset and right and bottom crop. It's a command line tool. https://imagemagick.org/script/magick.php Or you can use k2pdfopt https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...47#post4157747 But the Boyue Likebook Mars, like P78, is a 7.8" 300 dpi eink with Android 8.x Really I bought it to be able to use my County Library Android App, Belinda Borrow Box. There is some way to use a web download and ADE, but I don't have ADE on Linux. I probably have it on an old XP PC for games which I don't connect to the internet. Last edited by Quoth; 10-03-2021 at 02:53 PM. |
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It's the default reader called neoreader that comes with onyx. I only use for pdf and comics/scans. You can also crop, zoom and pan within it.
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Well, I just watched the Foundation TV Series and I have nothing nice to say about it.
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Anybody else seen the show? |
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