I remember having to change things I got from… places… from epub to mobi using calibre for my old school kindle to recognise it years ago. I don’t even have that device anymore.
Glad they’re accepting what appears to be the standard format tbh.
This is about misinformation on social media plays a part in war and journalism
I mean that shows the self-awareness that he knew that that was part of the humour really!
Summer Lightning was one of my favourites. You can’t go wrong with that one.
I do quite enjoy Wodehouse for Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings although one unemployed summer spent a lot of time binge reading them and they become quite repetitive!
8/20 here. Proud of getting some right. Really shocked about the answers to some!
A tricky test indeed
Have updated comment above 🙂
If anyone wants the Radio Plays I can share a Google drive link
EDIT Here you go
Includes original radio series and the noughties radio series (adaptations of books - not as good but has the original cast and is entertaining)
The 70s records - essentially the commercial version of the first radio series - has the Disaster Area sequence in the for ‘Black Ship’ instead of the shapehifting aliens.
The Dirk Gently radio series with Harry Enfield. Inferior to the books but the most faithful adaptation.
I mean I do think that whatever encourages people to read is great, but I know I’m getting old when I read in the article like this:
Filming themselves finishing a book in a single day against a backdrop of hundreds of them on shelves is all part of the performance, and viewers will be extra impressed if the book looks thick.
And just think “wtf?”
Sorry for that, but I don’t actually understand what you mean…
EDIT OK I’ve googled it and it seems to be a page that is sponsored by Google but I use Firefox and it worked fine with that - so is the problem that it doesn’t work with certain browsers?
Someone I’m in a Discord group with wanted an invite to bluesky because it was more familiar to him than Mastodon.
He pretty much wanted a like-for-like replacement for Twitter, though to his credit he had already tried Mastodon before dismissing it out of hand.
It’s not that he disliked it exactly, but he wasn’t that interested by what he saw so didn’t stick with it - to each their own
VPN subscriptions in the UK will be a lucrative market then for people wanting access to, let’s see, Wikipedia…
I’m interested to know what the Signal President meant when she said she’s much more optimistic about working with the government than she originally was.
The thing is it obviously does come from good intentions, and it’s very rare you’ll find me saying that about something to do with the Tories. But it’s so obviously the wrong approach and yet here we are. Thanks for nothing. Yet again.
As a slightly different take I’d recommend SS-GB. Technically it’s an alternative history novel whether the Nazis won WWII and conquered the UK… But that’s pretty dystopian in practice, especially when the main character is a policeman.
I don’t know if The Trial counts exactly as a dystopia but it certainly conjures up the paranoia and confusion of being caught up in a beruacratic nightmare like you might find in a police state.
High Rise is a great satire on the class system translated to people moving into the then new high rise blocks in the UK - only the rich can afford the apartments at the top and so on. The first sentence involves the hero having to eat a dog to survive.
A Clockwork Orange has been mentioned already, but it’s easily my favourite. And very different and more brutal than the film, which is also great but more its own thing. Alex is a much nastier piece of work in the book, and the last chapter of the novel isn’t in the film
It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?
I play all sorts of different games though, some where you’re not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don’t feel like it’s that big a deal