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Forum: The Books
08-20-2011, 06:42 PM
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Replies: 85
Views: 30,909
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Mister Underhill
Great thread, Esty, and great posts everybody. ...
Great thread, Esty, and great posts everybody. "Thee" as a familiar form is rattling around somewhere in my brain, but as an English-only speaker (alas), I guess the nuance of familiar versus formal... |
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Forum: The Movies
07-14-2011, 03:46 PM
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Replies: 266
Views: 136,074
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Yeah, I can understand the impulse to try to make...
Yeah, I can understand the impulse to try to make each dwarf visually distinctive when you're trying to juggle thirteen of the buggers, but there is only one word that applies to most of these... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
07-06-2011, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 4,680
Views: 1,482,244
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Lookee there! I'm in on time for once: Happy...
Lookee there! I'm in on time for once: Happy Birthday, Wight! The blessings of Eddy Wally upon you, many happy returns, and so forth. Hope you've had a great one, old friend. :smokin: |
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Forum: The Books
06-24-2011, 02:35 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Sometimes it's...
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Sometimes it's easy to assume a general reverence for books when the opposite is more the general case. I guess it can depend on the sort of books one favors, too.... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
06-01-2011, 04:01 PM
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Replies: 4,680
Views: 1,482,244
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Argh -- belated again! But nevertheless, very...
Argh -- belated again! But nevertheless, very sincere wishes for a very Happy Birthday! Maybe with the time zone differences and the date line and such it all works out somehow. ;) I miss seeing... |
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Forum: The Books
06-01-2011, 09:39 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 6,442
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Good luck finding a 1913-15 syllabus; you'll need...
Good luck finding a 1913-15 syllabus; you'll need some academic archeology skills to accomplish that feat, I think. But in the meantime you might want to check out Tolkien and the Great War by John... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
05-22-2011, 09:00 AM
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Replies: 4,680
Views: 1,482,244
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Belated Birthday Greetings, Bb! The years keep...
Belated Birthday Greetings, Bb! The years keep rolling right on by, don't they? I hope you had a good one, and more importantly I wish you many more to come, old friend. |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
04-27-2011, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 270
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Views: 251,688
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Got your PM, pio. I don't have a clue what...
Got your PM, pio. I don't have a clue what might've happened. Sounds like one of those weird things we've had in the past where the server somehow got out of sync. Assuming only posts made during... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
04-03-2011, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 4,680
Views: 1,482,244
Posted By
Mister Underhill
A belated Happy Birthday to LMP and Tom Bomb--...
A belated Happy Birthday to LMP and Tom Bomb-- er, I mean, pio! Hey dol, merry dol, happy birthdays my darlings! |
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Forum: The Books
03-01-2011, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 110
Views: 46,358
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Here's a blog post with the emails between the...
Here's a blog post with the emails between the guy who made the button and Zazzle after this dustup started: http://www.giro.org/2011/03/01/the-zazzle-emails/ |
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Forum: The Books
02-26-2011, 08:33 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Physical books wear out after 30-35 lendings? ...
Physical books wear out after 30-35 lendings? Sheesh, what are people doing to their library books? On the Kindle vs traditional books front, a new software update has added absolute page... |
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Forum: The Books
02-26-2011, 07:50 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 7,902
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Interesting perspective. As a Tolkien fan, I'm...
Interesting perspective. As a Tolkien fan, I'm certainly grateful to Christopher for bringing so much of his father's unpublished work to the public. On the other hand, I've always thought there... |
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Forum: The Books
02-22-2011, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 3,821
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Mister Underhill
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
01-28-2011, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 4,680
Views: 1,482,244
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Thanks, you guys! Hard to believe that another...
Thanks, you guys! Hard to believe that another birthday has already rolled around -- or that I've been haunting these Downs for nearly eleven and a half years! Far too short a time to spend among... |
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Forum: The Books
01-22-2011, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
I'm not particularly picky about a specific...
I'm not particularly picky about a specific edition -- for many, many years my Hobbit and LotR were a mismatched set of battered second-hand paperbacks. But I get what you're saying. The overall... |
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Forum: The Books
01-21-2011, 07:27 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Everyone has to find their own level of...
Everyone has to find their own level of (dis)comfort with the idea of e-readers and the ephemeral nature of digital content. If you think of a device as a replacement for your physical books, then... |
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Forum: The Books
01-16-2011, 03:06 AM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
I've been meaning to follow up in this thread...
I've been meaning to follow up in this thread with some pics for comparison, but I've been lazy since I got back from my little jaunt out of town. If I can scare up the camera -- it's around here... |
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Forum: The Books
01-03-2011, 02:28 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Searchable text would definitely be a boon for us...
Searchable text would definitely be a boon for us Tolkien nuts, Esty. It looks like I will have to be the trailblazer here and report back. The interesting thing is that I'm already in the... |
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Forum: The Books
12-30-2010, 10:14 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Ah, Ibrin, now we're getting somewhere! How...
Ah, Ibrin, now we're getting somewhere! How about the actual quality of the e-editions? I've seen some pretty sloppy conversions of just regular books, like someone ran it through an automated... |
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Forum: The Books
12-30-2010, 05:06 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Well there's two different versions. I got the...
Well there's two different versions. I got the smaller one, with a 6" diagonal screen. They also have a 9.7" screen, though of course it costs more and you start to lose some of the convenience of... |
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Forum: The Books
12-29-2010, 10:16 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Actually the e-ink display is not like the screen...
Actually the e-ink display is not like the screen on a regular smart-phone or an iPad or what have you. In fact you need to have some light on the screen to read it, just like a paper page. Just... |
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Forum: The Books
12-29-2010, 06:32 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Shh! Save trees! :p
Battery-wise, I've been...
Shh! Save trees! :p Battery-wise, I've been fooling with this thing since Christmas morning, including lots of wi-fi, which I think is where you can really burn up the batteries, and I'm still at... |
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Forum: The Books
12-29-2010, 06:09 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 36,868
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Tolkien on the Kindle
Guess what I got for Christmas? Tolkien on an e-reader feels sketchy somehow. It doesn't seem to square with the illusion that, for instance, the LotR is the Red Book of Westmarch. With... |
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Forum: The Movies
12-25-2010, 09:24 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 16,665
Posted By
Mister Underhill
It is crazy -- and more than a little scary --...
It is crazy -- and more than a little scary -- the sheer scale that these modern "vertically integrated" conglomerates operate on. In this case, the union leadership played right into WB's hands. ... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
12-11-2010, 03:13 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 11,765
Posted By
Mister Underhill
Brr! Foes that would, no doubt, freeze my heart,...
Brr! Foes that would, no doubt, freeze my heart, or lay this little site in ruin, if it were not guarded ceaselessly. Anyway, since I wrote the above the latest rumor to break is that Orly is... |
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