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wiseheartSooo, we're back, thanks for the good wishes. Dresden was wonderful and Berlin was - well, interesting. The Pergamon Museum was beyond amazing, but other than hat, I don't think I'd ever want to return to Berlin, while I'd use any chance to see Dresden again.
We got back last night very late, as we got into a 2-hour-traffic jam beyond Prague. Today I had to go to Bestsellers, the only English bookshop in town, where I fetched my shiny new US-version of Sherlock - the Case Book. It's great, has lots of background material to both seasons and very, very funny.
But: while I was waiting, I spotted two other little gems on the bookshelf. The one is The Fall of Arthur by the Great Professor Tolkien himself (edited, as usual, by his son Christopher), the other one a medieval mystery titled Hill of Bones by a group of authors who call themselves The Medieval Murderers and wrote the book together. I'm particularly looking forward to that one - it takes place at the end of the 12th century, also only slightly beyond Cadfael times, so it might prove helpful, aside from (hopefully) being a good read.
I also ordered 7 (!) Miss Marple novels - basically those who mostly take place in St. Mary Mead or in another village. I already have 5 of them, so my collection is going to be almost full. The only ones I didn't order were A Caribbean Mystery and Nemesis. I may buy them later, but they won't be of any use for my story Precious Like Rubies, so I'd rather spend my money on them later.
I must ask them if they accept orders for DVDs as well, although it's rather unlikely as they're not selling the things. It would be so nice if I could order the original, British editions of the 3rd series of Sherlock, or the extended edition of The Hobbit, or the second part of the movie, or older Dr. Who stuff - ah, well, one can't have everything.
We got back last night very late, as we got into a 2-hour-traffic jam beyond Prague. Today I had to go to Bestsellers, the only English bookshop in town, where I fetched my shiny new US-version of Sherlock - the Case Book. It's great, has lots of background material to both seasons and very, very funny.
But: while I was waiting, I spotted two other little gems on the bookshelf. The one is The Fall of Arthur by the Great Professor Tolkien himself (edited, as usual, by his son Christopher), the other one a medieval mystery titled Hill of Bones by a group of authors who call themselves The Medieval Murderers and wrote the book together. I'm particularly looking forward to that one - it takes place at the end of the 12th century, also only slightly beyond Cadfael times, so it might prove helpful, aside from (hopefully) being a good read.
I also ordered 7 (!) Miss Marple novels - basically those who mostly take place in St. Mary Mead or in another village. I already have 5 of them, so my collection is going to be almost full. The only ones I didn't order were A Caribbean Mystery and Nemesis. I may buy them later, but they won't be of any use for my story Precious Like Rubies, so I'd rather spend my money on them later.
I must ask them if they accept orders for DVDs as well, although it's rather unlikely as they're not selling the things. It would be so nice if I could order the original, British editions of the 3rd series of Sherlock, or the extended edition of The Hobbit, or the second part of the movie, or older Dr. Who stuff - ah, well, one can't have everything.
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Date: 2013-08-21 09:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-21 10:20 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, I've also come back to FF.Net's newest "improvement". When I went away, the number of stories in, say, the Sherlock category was simply given, so I knew how many there would be. Now there stay things like 2.6K.
What the hell is 2.6K? How many stories does that mean? 2600?
But what if there are 2611 stories, for example? It always only gives such two-digit... things.
*grrrr*
I'd have long left FF.Net because of its constant "improvements" that makes using it more complicated every time. Unfortunately that's one of the few archices that are multifandom, and AO3 is even more chaotic and unmanageable for me. I can't even filter for language or make the bloody font bigger, so that it won't kill my eyes.
Sorry for the rant. I've just discovered FF.Net's newest idiocy and it upset me more than it should have. I'm old and the constant changes make me crazy.
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Date: 2013-08-21 11:15 pm (UTC)I just checked on AO3 about the language matter though and it seemed that one can sort for languages. When did you try last? They had a big problem with updating search options a while back that went on for months, perhaps you tried it out then?
There might also be a way to change the font size, but I'm not sure.
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Date: 2013-08-21 11:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-22 05:36 pm (UTC)But seriously, what the hell is 2.6K?
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Date: 2013-08-22 05:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-22 07:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-22 08:28 pm (UTC)But I still don't know what 2.6K means. Can you tell me?
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Date: 2013-08-22 08:39 pm (UTC)I saw your question about increasing font size on AO3, and after some digging worked it out (hopefully this is reasonably clear)
Go to your dashboard
Click on "skins" in the left hand bar
Click on "create new skin"
Click on "Use Wizard Instead?"
Enter a title in the title box (it doesn't matter what it is)
In the "Percent of base font size (%)" box put a number over 100 (200 would double the font size; 125 makes the font look a lot larger to me - you'll probably want to experiment to see what size is the best for you)
Press submit
Click use
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Date: 2013-08-22 09:11 pm (UTC)It was useful and exact - what's wrong with that?
Thanks for the help. I'll try it next time. Do I have to be logged in for it?
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Date: 2013-08-23 01:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-24 02:53 pm (UTC)Yes, logged in, and it should then work whenever you are logged in