[Dragaera] Need a passage from "Iorich"

[Mark Landin]

Thanks guys. I appreciate it!


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Eric Shupps <eshupps at binarywave.com> wrote:

> I'm not an overly big fan of certain texts on the Kindle but the
> convenience outweighs everything else for me.  I travel a lot so my Kindle
> is indispensable.  The Taltos novels are fine but the Paarfi books somehow
> read better in regular print.  It seems that shorter works with less dense
> word structure are more suited to an e-reader format; with their more
> complex sentence structure and larger words, Paarfi's works seem chopped up
> in electronic format.  Maybe that's just me but I can tell you one thing
> for an absolute fact - nobody (including my aforementioned daughter) has
> ever become an accidental Brust fan because they saw your Kindle/Nook/iPad
> sitting on your desk.  And you'll never experience the joy of an unexpected
> find or that intoxicating smell of old books browsing around on iTunes.
>
> (As an aside, do most of my reading in electronic format but with my
> favorite authors I still buy the hard copy and put it on the bookshelf.  I
> don't know why, it just seems right.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dragaera-bounces at lists.dragaera.info [mailto:
> dragaera-bounces at lists.dragaera.info] On Behalf Of Philip Hart
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 5:50 PM
> To: Dragaera at lists.dragaera.info
> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Need a passage from "Iorich"
>
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Eric Shupps wrote:
>
> > Kindle to the rescue (beginning of Chapter 2):
>
> Can one email snippets to oneself?  How is the Vladiad on Kindle?  I've
> recently gotten one and find some books have lower transfer standards than
> I like.
>
> > By "The State" we mean that body that holds the monopoly on the use of
> > violence within a geographic region [...]
>
> I at least would be interested in someone with a philosphical or poly-sci
> bent might comparing this to the original Weber (Hobbes?) formulation.
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