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I just had a quick look on bookfinder.com and while The Islanders and The Dream Archipelago seem quite easy to come by at a sensible price, The Evidence is scarcer and more expensive.
We can do The Gradual instead, which would solve this issue: 3.99BP on Amazon.co.uk.
The real question is whether the non-kindle availability of The Dream Archipelago in North America will keep anyone out?
For my part, this isn’t a problem. I read from a variety of formats, digital and print.
> For my part, this isn’t a problem. I read from a variety of formats, digital and print.
Thanks, good to know.
@clash_bowley , @Ray_Otus , @Michael_S_Miller would the lack of kindle for one of the books put a crimp on your participation?
It would make it awkward, but not sink it. If the available print copies are not absurdly expensive, I can deal.
Same.
OK, I think we should go with Dune and Dune Messiah, then. That way I don't have to guess what each person thinks is expensive or not, or hard to get or not. These books, at least, are readily available to all in the formats they prefer.
I apologize for not checking this before. I just assumed, being a significant author, all Priest's books would be available, and that being an iconic collection, Dangerous Visions would similarly be so.
I'm in for that too! But really, the paperback Dream Archipelago is less than fifteen dollars. It's cool. I meant that as a general statement, not this particular case.
Do you really want to go with Dune? I was happy with and ready to buy the Islanders, but now I hesitate to pull the trigger. Dune would be fine too.
I would say yes!
I’m fine with that.
I'm happy with Dream Archipelago, but then again I'm in the UK and it's easily available here.
Brag, brag, brag!
I'm cool with Dream Arch. I'll try to make whatever work. Reading on Kindle isn't as important to me these days, it just makes c-and-p'ing quotes harder when commenting.
Bought all three
You reckless person... you just know that @Apocryphal will change it now...
Perhaps I am daring fate because I secretly want him to declare Dune the Slow Read Book of 2021, and this is a small price to pay... Perhaps also the world really is flat and we have just been mistaken all this time...
On a small enough scale, almost everything's flat
A small point of light in the undending shitshow that is "Corrupt Incompetent Ideologues Running Plague Island."
Better than the Plague Continent here
More than one episode of waffling on my part was solved by @clash_bowley decisively buying books!
Hahahaha!
@clash_bowley Did you buy The Evidence or The Gradual?
The Gradual, as you recommended up thread.
"We can do The Gradual instead, which would solve this issue: 3.99BP on Amazon.co.uk."
ok, good.
I'm not sure if I'll participate, but if someone sends me a schedule, I can create a Google calendar, as I have in the past.
Thanks @Michael_S_Miller . I'd love it for you to participate, but understand if you don't.
I started a Google Calendar, but won't be able to finish it until I get some of the books - I haven't been able to locate a table of contents with page numbers for all of them online.
At first I was thinking we might mix up the books a little, but I think that'll be too difficult for kindle readers and certainly for anyone doing audio, so we'll start with The Islanders at the beginning of February, then proceed to The Dream Archipelago, and finally The Gradual.
The Islanders bought on kindle... no going back now...
Like Cortez burning his ships...