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So, it appears that I have Utterly Forgotten everything about this book in 12 short days, so my first order of bidness, on Get Back To Work Day is? Rereading the manuscript. Again.

Also, there does not appear to be a Bluetooth dongle anywhere in this house, which fact is producing a cosmic crane-load of angst. Steve has gone out to hunt and gather and promises to bring said dongle home, but how can he be sure -- that's what I want to know.

Also, also, I finished reading Vision in Silver, only to find that the ebook edition of Marked in Flesh is $13.99, which -- no. I guess I'll wait 'til next year to find out how long the Elders have given Simon to prove his point -- just as Simon begins to Get A Clue, may I say?

Also, also, also! Windows has declared itself to be downloading updates for the last six hours, revving like a jet plane the while. Steve has done Mighty Work in re resetting directories and whatall, but it hasn't seemed to appease Windows, or even convinced it to shut up so I can hear myself think. I may be finishing this book sitting in a corner of the couch, with the nice, quiet Linux laptop.

We did visit the ocean very briefly yesterday, and came home to find a note from Baen, pointing to the Official Press Release regarding the partnership between Baen ebooks and Pinbeam Books. Here's your link.

Everybody have a good weekend.

I'll be on the couch.

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I loathe Win10 in any of it's forms.

I'll be in the middle of something and get "Windows is rebooting to install updates. Do not turn off or unplug your computer" way too many times. At least all other WinX'a would wait until you turned off the computer at night OR gave you the option to save your work and reboot ON YOUR SCHEDULE to install updates.

WHERE IS "MARKED IN SILVER" AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD??????
BN is graciously allowing me to pre-order for January umpteenth or there-abouts.. (and 13.99 is the pre-order price)

To your post on 9/14
Where and what LED lamps did you get?
I'm having to upgrade my office and finding lamps I can live with is hard thanks to the nanny.gov making us buy either CFL or LED lamps.
I had to change all my ceiling fans to CFL or LED bulbs last summer.

I got that book in hardbound when it came out... Simon does get a clue eventually..

The couch is where it's at.

I'm glad that couch 2.0.1 has never been released...

I believe you have some Olympic level tandem snoozers there. My fat(cat)boy, being an only cat, has to compete in the solo category. He's got the endurance, but his technique leaves a lot to be desired, and he frequently loses style points for snoring.

The other day, to the astonishment of all, he not only chased, but caught, killed and ate a moth that was hiding out in the mail circulars. It waited until I had carried the mail halfway across the living room before before it broke cover. Things went down too fast and too far away for me to prevent the fatality. However, having eye-witnessed his feat, I can attest that his portly is a lot more portable than you'd think.

It's worth a check to see if Marked in Flesh is in your public library as an eBook. Of all the Anne Bishop books, that is the only one available in the BC Library for download. But all of the others are available to recommend that my library buy. It's worth a look at your library's electronic book site to see if you can get it or recommend they add it. If you end up doing the recommendation thing, you can usually specify that you want to borrow it automatically if they decide to add it to their collection.

I checked. There is not one copy of any Anne Bishop etitle in All of Maine. All of Maine is not, ahem, a major consumer of sf/f, and Maine InfoNet, which links All Maine Libraries into One! Convenient! Catalog! is not accommodating in the area of requesting books. Just for fun, I put in my name, it kicked up one book that it might, if asked nicely, purchase, and that book was?

Alien Artifacts, an anthology in which we happen to have a story.

If Maine InfoNet has not at least heard of a title, it appears that there is no mechanism for it being requested. V. frustrating.

However, I did get on the waiting list for the new Mercy Thompson, so, yanno -- half-win.

I've just checked, and that title is available through my library's Overdrive collection _and_ in our Axis 360 collection, though not in our Hoopla collection. Of course, your library may not belong to any of these . . . hmmm. Okay, on checking, Maine Infonet _is_ an Overdrive library (maine.overdrive.com), but they haven't got any of the Bishop titles, though they do offer a way for you to recommend (aka request) them.

Actually, I think they only offer a way to request the one title that Overdrive/Maine InfoNet has heard of (I put a couple hours in on this in the last day, in between other things, so I'm not crystal clear on anything at the moment, except I remember why I loathe Overdrive).

I have not, however, discovered any way to request a title that Maine InfoNet/Overdrive never heard of. For instance, Alliance of Equals by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, or Carousel Tides, by Sharon Lee. I was able, with a lot of fuss and fuming, to request Devil in a Blue Dress, but that was because the title was in the database, though the book was not available.

Yeah, the way Overdrive works with requests, the book has to be in their database. For reasons that are NOT clear to me, possibly due to the absence of DRM, none of the Baen books are available through Overdrive. Some of the Anne Bishop books are available in Canada, which has a different Overdrive database than the US. So I was able to request Marked in Flesh from my All of BC library system. (BC has a weird Overdrive system where a certain subset of eBooks and audio books are available for any library's patrons across all of the province. But individual libraries can add additional titles that are only available to a subset of libraries who pay more. Fortunately, my library is in that "premium" group.)

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