A few things
Sep. 10th, 2020 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeIt's been feeling distinctly early-autumnal this week—the nights beginning to draw in, the mornings getting chillier. I still managed to sit out in the garden for a bit this afternoon, but it was definitely not as warm as it has been. Fortunately, the huge woolly jumper I've been working on for most of the year is almost finished, just in time! I am happily looking forward to trying it on properly.
I haven't been following the intricacies of the legal situation, but I'm glad to see that archive.org have reinstated their 'borrow for 14 days' option for some books, and am currently taking advantage of it to read another collection of Stephen Jay Gould's essays (excellent as usual). However, these borrowed PDFs really don't agree with my ereader, for some reason—it takes several seconds to turn the page even when otherwise behaving itself, and then it'll sometimes randomly skip ahead several pages, go back instead of forwards, go into 300% zoom... grateful as I am for the availability of ebooks over recent months, I really can't wait to be able to borrow physical books from a real-world library again.
Also at this time of year, I am speculatively turning over ideas for Yuletide nominations—trying to get a good balance of the inevitable D. K. Broster-related stuff (do I want Flight of the Heron? Sir Isumbras???) and other stuff, and picking up fandoms from earlier in the year (Frontier Wolf! Malory Towers! Heh, they'll make a good combination) while also thinking over things I've read recently. Tough decisions...
I haven't been following the intricacies of the legal situation, but I'm glad to see that archive.org have reinstated their 'borrow for 14 days' option for some books, and am currently taking advantage of it to read another collection of Stephen Jay Gould's essays (excellent as usual). However, these borrowed PDFs really don't agree with my ereader, for some reason—it takes several seconds to turn the page even when otherwise behaving itself, and then it'll sometimes randomly skip ahead several pages, go back instead of forwards, go into 300% zoom... grateful as I am for the availability of ebooks over recent months, I really can't wait to be able to borrow physical books from a real-world library again.
Also at this time of year, I am speculatively turning over ideas for Yuletide nominations—trying to get a good balance of the inevitable D. K. Broster-related stuff (do I want Flight of the Heron? Sir Isumbras???) and other stuff, and picking up fandoms from earlier in the year (Frontier Wolf! Malory Towers! Heh, they'll make a good combination) while also thinking over things I've read recently. Tough decisions...
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2020 07:38 pm (UTC)I feel you about the need for physical books--ebooks are so convenient, and definitely widen my reading access/possibilities, but nothing beats physical books ♥
And oh, good luck with the Yuletide fandom choices! I always find it fun to see what people nominate! And narrowing it down to three definitely sounds tough. The good thing is that, if you run out of spots, you can try to coordinate with someone else--so I hope your fandom friends sign up too, then you can all team up to nominate all the Broster stuff! :D
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Date: Sep. 11th, 2020 05:38 am (UTC)I had no idea :P Yeah, I'm enjoying the cooler weather—I hope it's not too hot yet where you are!
Oh, I'm sure there'll be plenty of interest in Broster fandoms :D And yes, I always like looking through the tagset and seeing the things other people nominated that I would never have thought of.