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I did really enjoy it. I read it across a 6 month period with a few breaks between putting it down and picking it back up.

It is a book where the reader can suffer from missing context due to their (lack of) knowledge of the period, but I managed to struggle through with the help of Wikipedia where things got murky.

So they're still correct. Just a weird way to prove their point.

Source?

The irony of someone downvoting you

Agreed, just like you're allowed to rip a DVD movie to your computer, but doing so does not make it a derivative work and doesn't give you the right to distribute it willy nilly.

By the IA's rationale, printing an ebook would also be derivative and would negate copyright protections.

They were doing nothing wrong until they started "lending" more than one copy of a given book.

Argh I've been waiting for the sequel for so long!

Nah, he has two writing assistants who are published author's in their own right (one wrote the Expanse series). They will finish it when Martin is gone.

Oh wow! I love the bubble gum one

It was 12 years between it getting posted online and eventually released. Pretty sure it was after the last book which was 2008 and Midnight Sun came out in 2020.

Library policeman

When Terry Pratchett died he had his hard drive squashed by a steam roller so no one could use the 10ish books he was working on

Didn't he say the opposite of that?

Greedy companies promote piracy better than anyone else possibly could.

Agree.

Maybe this post should be part of the Wiki :)

The bubblegum one is also a concept, but i’d love to see it published. The lollipop one is by Jennifer Heuer, and I have to agree that it’s a fantastic one.

such great tips and this is what I always say too pretty much to readers or people who want to read etc. I also find it helps not to compare your reading rate to anyone else's as everyone reads at a different pace.

Just read what is comfortable for you and if you like a book that you find other's haven't, then that is absolutely fine too.

Whatever you read I hope you enjoy it.

It's not what the IA is doing or what you meant, but is 100% what you said and another major bugbear of the publishing industry

Sorry, but this is not appropriate for this sub.

Same people that like this book keep telling me I don’t understand how clever the last Jedi was

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I'm surprised by how polarising it is. I read it at about 20, and I thought it was alright. No strong feelings either way, but I probably wouldn't read it again.

I haven't seen that one but I've seen a concept one that was never made with a lollipop smashed on the ground that was really good

I’ll have to read this! The cover on the wikipedia page is so ugly. I’m not seeing much that’s better in google images.