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If an app installed on multiple devices wants to keep sync'd between multiple devices, it has to write some real code to merge changes and keep files synchronized, etc.You could, presumably, manually sync with Dukto over a LAN (local WiFi in my case).-mouser (June 07, 2015, 09:28 AM)
When I need a new book, my nook suggests books in the genre that I read.Thanks... I'm still stuck in the print age, on the whole. I used to get suggestions for general books from various print sources, e.g. the book reviews pages of a decent newspaper, but as I don't take a paper now, that's gone. A pity, as I miss recommendations for travel books in particular. I scan such sources as come my way, of course.-wraith808 (August 15, 2016, 03:55 PM)
[...] I think he fell victim to two things.That sounds like he needed a good editor to suggest improvements. Perhaps publishers and agents don't bother any more.
1) New author
2) the Genre, as I said, was Gunpowder Fantasy. That first part was pure fantasy.-wraith808 (August 14, 2016, 04:27 PM)
It starts with A Darkness Forged in Fire, that almost lost me in the beginning. But I'm glad that I stuck it out through that bit of exposition, as the rest of the read firmly grabbed me.A dangerous strategy for an author. I started Gardens of the Moon, first of Steven Erikson's Malazan Empire series, which opens on a protracted scene where two people, neither introduced, pick their way through a scene of World War 1 level carnage - with no explanation whatsoever. I put the book down. I picked it up again a few weeks later and finished it, but it was a close-run thing whether I'd bother.-wraith808 (August 12, 2016, 09:16 AM)
I haven't seen any reviews of it - I picked it up when I saw it in the library, because I'd read his first novel, Pavel and I (for which I had seen positive reviews), and thought well of it.[The Quiet Twin - Dan Vyleta]did you find that one as good as the reviews suggested?-rjbull (August 04, 2016, 05:25 PM)-tomos (August 12, 2016, 06:24 AM)
Wow, that's even good depiction of Zagreb main square, with the statue of governor Josip Jelačić in the background. I'll have to pick it up just to see what is it about.There isn't much about Zagreb as such, but a fair section about the age-old and horrible enmity between Serb and Croat. Bernie is a non-Nazi German detective; the novels span the early 1930s through to the Cold War, with all that implies. As a character, he is very much in the 'noir' tradition of e.g. Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.-Attronarch (August 12, 2016, 05:29 AM)
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This is an interesting take on the concept of hell and tells one man's journey through this temporary plane of existence.If you like weird stuff, you might like Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman.-Josh (July 16, 2016, 03:04 PM)
from I saw about that program, I don't think it's something suitableTEA lives in the system tray, and saves its files as individual text files named from the time they were made. If all data were saved in a single file, any crash-corruption of that file might lose everything instead of just the current text. Of course, you could consider actually trying it out, it's free, and there's a portable unzip-and-go version.
I want a program that will sit in tray and just monitor and save in an dated archive all the text I type-kalos (July 15, 2016, 06:18 PM)
I did try Text Editor Anywhere, but, though it's quite useful, it's not as easy/simple to use as CHSIt does a different job, really. The advantage over CHS is that you don't need to remember to copy text box contents to the clipboard each time; it saves them automatically.-IainB (July 15, 2016, 11:15 PM)
it imposes a complexity and system overhead that I could probably do without.I'm surprised - you major in complex systems-IainB (July 15, 2016, 11:15 PM)
Looks interesting. Which one of these is the first saga?Who are you addressing?-phitsc (July 15, 2016, 08:21 AM)
I find a clipboard tool (of course I use my own, CHS) an excellent emergency backup for such occasions.Further to that, if the OP is typing job applications, the odds are that he is typing the same text repeatedly. Good clipboard managers such as mouser's superb CHS or ArsClip or many others are excellent for keeping boilerplate text readily available.-mouser (July 13, 2016, 04:49 PM)