Forum - View topicSeven Seas' Twelve Kingdoms novel up for pre-order.
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Fluwm
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In all fairness, there is something somewhat comforting about a life where "crushed to death by books" is a distinctly possible cause-of-death. It's not the worst fate one could face.
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Alan45
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@Fluwm
"crushed to death by books" Yeah, if I could get all of my manga out on display that would be a distinct possibility. Unfortunately the majority, several thousand volumes, are in boxes stored on heavy duty shelves in the storage room. Come to think of it one of those shelf units would do the trick. I wish I could look at them just to cull unwanted series. @Blood- I agree with you that a good physical book has a look and feel that is lost in digital. But it is not a binding choice. You can do both. I used to say I would buy a digital book only when something I wanted was not available any other way. It happened to me last year. I got hung up on the manga version of The Apothecary Diaries and wanted to read the source novels. Unfortunately at the time they were only available in digital. I broke down and bought a Kindle, bought the novels and read them. Of course they are now issuing the novels in soft back format (which I bought) However there are only two volumes available of 15. The digital version has 12 out with 13 due in January. I'm not sure I have enough time left to wait for the physical version. In addition to storage space and availability there is another reason to try digital. Not all books are "good books". They don't call them light novels for nothing. This is genre fiction much like the murder mysteries and skinny science fiction books I read as a kid. A light novel is good for a day or a day and a half. They are cheap, usually about half of the cost of the physical copy. Some are excellent, some are god awful and most are read once. If they are really good, I buy the physical copy when available. The rest can reside in memory until I need the space. There are other advantages but those are the big ones. |
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Blood-
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Yeah, I should probably break down and buy a Kindle. I have the Kindle app for my Mac but reading off my Mac (even when I'm casting to my bigscreen) is not my favourite way to read and of course it's not portable the way a Kindle is. I would absolutely go digital if there was no other way to get the material. But I fear I am too set in my physical book ways to ever switch over in a meaningful fashion. But then again, I suppose we never know what the future holds...
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Fluwm
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I'm a big fan of the Paperwhite. It's not so great for manga, due to the slight delay it takes in displaying images (a quirk of the e-ink displays) but for straight text? It's pretty excellent. And being waterproof and easy to read in direct sunlight are also pretty big pros. The cases for it kinda suck, though (especially the Amazon ones).
That's a good point. I definitely have had to be much more discerning with what I'm willing to put on my shelf. Which more often than not means not a lot of LNs, and only a few Nausicaa -- mostly the classics I'll want to return to often. (If you've haven't seen that deluxe hardcover Nausicaa two-volume edition they printed a few years ago... hot damn, you should, it's the loveliest manga book I've seen). And it helps when we get "special" versions -- like that Kickstarted Aria collection has this lovely gold-leaf on the edges of each book, which looks lovely; and the Gundam: The Origin volumes are nice little hardcovers with thick, glossy pages. Etc., etc. Those tend to be pretty few-and-far-between, though. When it comes to LNs, I'm mostly digital-only due to the volume, but yeah, I read a lot of trash, too. Can't deny that. Having a JNC subscription helps a lot with that. I've got some health issues that result in a *lot* of time spent in agonizing pain, without much capacity to focus on anything too demanding of my attention... and a lot of middling (and worse) LNs are perfect for those times. EDIT: Circling back to the topic at hand, I'm really hoping we get nice editions of the 12K books, hopefully *at least* of typical LN dimensions. The Tokyopop books are so short and stubby that they've never looked right on my shelves. |
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Alan45
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@Fluwm
Were you able to get the paperback version of vol. 4 of 12 Kingdoms? The hardback version was missing a chapter. |
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Fluwm
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I don't think so. I've got the four hardcovers plus a paperback copy of The Vast Spread of the Seas. The Tokyopop volumes aren't numbered, but I'm pretty sure that was only the 2nd or 3rd book. Also, speaking of the Tokyopop release... it looks like the upcoming release will probably sport the Japanese cover art, but the Tokyopop cover art is very nice IMO. The green background is all matte, but the character art in the foreground is glossy, so it really pops. Part of me hopes we'll see it again next year... I think I prefer it to the simpler anime-characters-on-white-backgrounds of the Japanese covers. |
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10072 Location: Virginia |
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Volume 4 of the TokyoPop release is "The Skys of Dawn". They are numbered on the title page.
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GATSU
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