XPost: rec.arts.sf.written
From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid
On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:26:19 -0400, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
wrote:
>On 4/14/25 11:51 AM, Jay Morris wrote:
>> Amazon has "Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds,
>> Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales: The War of the Worlds, Anthem,
>> Space Viking, The Conquest of America…" for $0.99. 28,442 pages. Comes
>> as one book.
>>
>> https://a.co/d/8X3aldW
>>
>> e-artnow presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and
>> formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability
>> on all devices. E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard Jefferies:
>> After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The
>> Guardians Philip F. Nowlan: Armageddon–2419 A.D… George Griffith: The
>> Angel of the Revolution… Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac David Lindsay: A
>> Voyage to Arcturus Edward E. Hale: The Brick Moon Stanley G. Weinbaum: A
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>> Meccania the Su...
>
>Can you say "public domain"?
>
>I suppose at only 99 cents it might be worth saving the effort of
>downloading what you wanted from Project Gutenberg for free, but the
>effort of trying to read something from it as a single book makes it
>seem hardly worth it.
Depends on how it is organized.
If it has a TOC listing each book at the front, and each book has a
link at the end (or the start of the next book) back to the TOC, then
it might be useable. I might even skip the "list the titles and check
them off" route in that case.
But if it has a TOC listing each and every chapter in each and every
book, then it is likely to be much harder to use. A list of the titles
of the actual books might be very helpful so one at least has some
idea of what it contains.
But if the TOC is clearly a merger of several TOCs with duplicate
copies of some books, or if it has no TOC at all, or a TOC that has no
links back to it, then things can get very dicey [1].
I suppose, worse came to worse, one could go through it
screen-by-screen and Bookmark the start of each book. I haven't had to
do that yet, but who can say what the future holds?
[1] Thus, my Dumas omnibus turned out to have not only two copies of
/The Man in the Iron Mask/ but also an essay of the same title
presenting Dumas' theory of who he was (which can be discovered by
reading the novel, BTW/ -- part of a separate collection of essays on
various crimes, some quite interesting, others less so.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
--- SoupGate-DOS v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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