Friday, June 19, 2009
i just want to say...
I lost ALL my ebooks in the great computer crash of May 2009, and I am still in mourning. Over 300 visions of other worlds, gone into the ether.
I admit it. Most of my ebooks are sci-fi or fantasy, and I download torrents and torrents of the stuff. I do need my Terry Pratchett and Dianne Wynne Jones and Isaac Asimov like a junkie needs a fix. I had the Artemis Fowl books, a bit of Meg Cabot, most of Jim Butcher, and folders of Edgar Rice Burroughs and all those Mars and Venus stuff. Also Dune, and all of Neil Gaiman's Sandman (must find this asap, as I have been crushing on Morpheus for ages), and a few other authors I seem to have forgotten (mea culpa!).
I am a snob about many things, but I freely admit to fantasy and sci-fi geekdom. I watched ALL the incarnations of Star Trek, except for Enterprise, because honestly, that truly sucked, even for me. I always rush home to watch Doctor Who (because the Doctor is definitely MY sort of man). I stood by Torchwood and yes, even Sarah Jane - my friends laughed and called me all sorts of names, but I stood my ground. I still have complete seasons of Merlin and Demons and Dollhouse and Primeval on my computer. Hey, they kept me sane throughout my unbreak-my-heart hell, when all my brain could handle was light and easy, and it was pleading pleading pleading for me to take it far, far away.
So now I find myself needing to rebuild. With the promise of backing up regularly and consistently. Hah. All you people who laughed whenever I said I had to stay home to catalog my books, well, those nights now serve me well! (Note: This is how completely dorky I am: I have a spreadsheet of all of my lovelies - with ISBN's, authors, publishers, years, etc. And if you include the newly vanished virtual copies, I had over 600 books in my room alone! And you know what's even geekier? I actually have a true blue BARCODE SCANNER to make data entry of the tangible copies easier.)
I had a point to this post... ah yes. So if you have any ebooks you would like share, hit me up. I will owe you. Thanks.
I admit it. Most of my ebooks are sci-fi or fantasy, and I download torrents and torrents of the stuff. I do need my Terry Pratchett and Dianne Wynne Jones and Isaac Asimov like a junkie needs a fix. I had the Artemis Fowl books, a bit of Meg Cabot, most of Jim Butcher, and folders of Edgar Rice Burroughs and all those Mars and Venus stuff. Also Dune, and all of Neil Gaiman's Sandman (must find this asap, as I have been crushing on Morpheus for ages), and a few other authors I seem to have forgotten (mea culpa!).
I am a snob about many things, but I freely admit to fantasy and sci-fi geekdom. I watched ALL the incarnations of Star Trek, except for Enterprise, because honestly, that truly sucked, even for me. I always rush home to watch Doctor Who (because the Doctor is definitely MY sort of man). I stood by Torchwood and yes, even Sarah Jane - my friends laughed and called me all sorts of names, but I stood my ground. I still have complete seasons of Merlin and Demons and Dollhouse and Primeval on my computer. Hey, they kept me sane throughout my unbreak-my-heart hell, when all my brain could handle was light and easy, and it was pleading pleading pleading for me to take it far, far away.
So now I find myself needing to rebuild. With the promise of backing up regularly and consistently. Hah. All you people who laughed whenever I said I had to stay home to catalog my books, well, those nights now serve me well! (Note: This is how completely dorky I am: I have a spreadsheet of all of my lovelies - with ISBN's, authors, publishers, years, etc. And if you include the newly vanished virtual copies, I had over 600 books in my room alone! And you know what's even geekier? I actually have a true blue BARCODE SCANNER to make data entry of the tangible copies easier.)
I had a point to this post... ah yes. So if you have any ebooks you would like share, hit me up. I will owe you. Thanks.
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I know it's not supposed to be funny but I'm laughing my butt off. Hahaha :D
-Poopy
I know it's not supposed to be funny but I'm laughing my butt off. Hahaha :D
-Poopy
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: 10:50 PM
Hi ate mita, this is mel. :)
i know someone who downloaded hundreds and hundreds worth of sci-fi books online.
i think he just went to demonoid.com and looked up "science fiction author".
i've seen the collection. it's awesome! it's all categorized by author, alphabetically. :)
i think its about 5gb. and if the pdf format of a book is just about 100kb, imagine how many books it has.
hope you can find it! :)
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i know someone who downloaded hundreds and hundreds worth of sci-fi books online.
i think he just went to demonoid.com and looked up "science fiction author".
i've seen the collection. it's awesome! it's all categorized by author, alphabetically. :)
i think its about 5gb. and if the pdf format of a book is just about 100kb, imagine how many books it has.
hope you can find it! :)
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