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Oh awesome! Glad you were able to find a tool that works for you.

Unfortunately I believe it isn’t available on iOS. On Android you can install it from a few sources. Directly from GitHub, or via F-Droid(or something similar). I’m with you though, that feature is key to me not scrolling forever.

I’m honestly surprised how many people I see doing this. No judgement , it’s just now how I use the device.

I couldn’t give up my syncing of progress! I love being able to pick up on the Kindle app on my phone if I’m in a waiting room then back to my kindle proper at home.

I’m jazzed to finally have been able to jailbreak my device so I can use KoReader on both the phone and Kindle and keep the same experience.

I had a similar reading experience but may have enjoyed it a bit more than you. It’s a very strange and quiet book.

And thank you for pointing me towards the Folio Society. Those printings are amazing!

I’ve been traveling and haven’t had as much reading time as I’d like. That said, I’ve taken a good chunk out of Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson, which I’ve been enjoying! Some of it is ponderous, but much of it feels worthwhile detail and specificity.

I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary, but I can see how it’s not for everyone. There’s a lot of math and science talk which I enjoyed, but could feel textbooky for some. It’s a fairly quick read so I’d recommend trying a few more chapters to see if it clicks, and moving on if not. Different strokes and whatnot!

Thanks for the Solaris recco! It’s been on my To-Read for a while.

It’s crazy to me how much this book is the root of the cyberpunk tree. So much of the terminology is identical across the genre. Great book!

Finished Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir, a little over a week ago, and finally dove into Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson. I’d been putting this off since I have a problem with finishing a series, or chunk of one in this case.

While I still love The Stormlight Archive, I think I’ve come to realize that Sanderson doesn’t write believable enough dialogue for me. It comes across as flat and somewhat childish. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Only just finished River of Blue Fire, Tad Williams, and will likely finish book three and four of the quartet for my active audiobook.

Fair enough! Enjoy your next read :)

I think I’m enjoying Otherland more than Memory, Sorrow and Thorn! They’re both following many of the main tropes of their own genre, cyberpunk, and fantasy respectively, but I think Otherland is more unique of an entry. MSaT possibly would have hit harder had I read it as a teenager.

If Audiobooks are your thing, I highly recommend Otherland in audiobook format. It’s slow and methodical, but it scratches the same itch Wheel of Time did. Characters that you know you can come back to for a long time. Comforting, even if the content isn’t always cozy or nice.

This series keeps popping up on my To-Read list! Might do it after Wind and Truth.

Nearly done with Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir! It’s quite good, and I’m glad I’d read somewhere here to go in with zero context. Would highly recommend.

Continuing to listen my way through the Otherland series by Tad Williams. Currently in book two, River of Blue Fire. It seems to me that he wrote all four books as one book and was told that was ~3000 pages wouldn’t sell well. I’m very much enjoying it. Williams writes in a detailed pace, which can seem slow at times, but I love his use of 20th century literature as the basis of all the VR worlds. They’re never the same as their origin and are wonderfully permuted.

Good to know - every time I think he’s jumped the shark, there’s a bigger shark! Have you read any other LitRPGs, and if so, how does this compare?

Nice! It’s quite quick, so it’s a low investment if it doesn’t float your boat.

I finished, I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman, last night. What a very surreal experience that I’m struggling to articulate. It left me very contemplative. It was clearly well written, but I’m not sure whether I enjoyed it. Intentionally too many unanswered questions.

A week or so back I knocked out The Gate of the Feral Gods, Matt Dinniman, which was, as usual, a good romp. I’m interested to see if this LitRPG gets boring at some point.

Is this a good indexer? Yet to explore Usenet and unsure how this fits into the landscape.

About halfway through The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones. I’m enjoying it in a somewhat depressed way. It’s absolutely well written, but I keep having to look things up to go, “ugh, yet another awful thing that was done to these peoples.”