[Dragaera] distributed computing / brain effort for searches

[Thomas M. Coyle]

No need - I have all of the texts in searchable, convertible electronic
format (except for Iorich, at the moment, but I'm working on that - just
need to unbound my copy and fire up the auto-feed scanner) as well as in
bound form, so that I can carry them with me on lightly-packed trips easily;
I'm happy to do textual searches such as this as needed.

Of course, I've also read the entire as-currently-published Dragaera series
at least once a year since I first picked up Jhereg in high school, so I can
generally decide pretty quickly whether a search is warranted. In this
particular case, I was pretty sure that I'd remembered "RHOTJ" being
mentioned very early in the series, and had immediate access to my
electronic library, so a 30-second search did the trick.

Google Books has most of the texts as well, but with significant portions
omitted. I've found the electronic copies to be invaluable.

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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:34:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>
To: dragaera at lists.dragaera.info
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] left hand right hand in Iorich (Michele
       Riccio, et al)
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On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Michele Riccio wrote:

> I must be remembering incorrectly.  But I swear there was a line about
> never calling the business side the "right hand"...I suppose I could
> just re-read all the books to see what it is I'm mis-remembering.  :-)

We really have to put in place a distributed computing effort to cover
this stuff.  At any time two active list members are assigned to each
Text, having It mostly committed to memory or near enough for easy
searching.  I guess with Kindles etc. this is already too Butlerian
though.