(Of course, if you're not in the US, they've already made the choice for you. Thanks terrible international intellectual property laws!)
Until today, my experience buying #ebooks from Humble Bundle was they were always available unencumbered by #DRM. I have hundreds of #DRMFree#epubs built up over the past decade.
The #PratchettDiscworldHumbleBundle is through #Rakuten#Kobo's ebook shop, and all the books are encumbered by #Adobe and the #AdobeDigitalEdition DRM. There is zero indication that this DRM is included on the bundle page itself. and it explicitly says "Use on Any Device". On the #RakutenKobo page itself, the only indication the file has DRM is some small bottom-text that says "Download Options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)".
Also, DRM Digital Editions will also "helpfully" install Norton for you as well. It's like the dogshit you just stepped in offered to stab you in the kidney, too.
This is shameful and disgusting from Humble Bundle. I know Humble Bundle got acquired years ago by IGN/Ziff Davis, but they'd avoided the levels of #enshittification to make me stop using them.
Petition to add something to the Geneva Convention: all national leaders must have read the complete #Discworld series.
Seriously, major benefits to humanity.
Some people date the recent decline of England to 2016 but imo it began on 12 March 2015. I've been re-reading Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, and Night Watch, which all seem as relevant now as when written over 20 years ago. Here's Vimes thinking about processions staged by the powers that be.
"There was nothing like the massed ranks of wizardry walking sedately through the city in a spirit of civic amicability to subtly remind the more thoughtful kind of person that it hadn’t always been this way. Look at us, the wizards seemed to be saying. We used to rule this city. Look at our big staffs with the knobs on the end. Any one of these could do some very serious damage in the wrong hands so it’s a good thing, isn’t it, that they’re in the right hands at the moment? Isn’t it nice that we all get along so well?" - Jingo by Terry Pratchett, by jingo
Now obviously I cannot speak for him but I feel that if Terry #Pratchett were alive the addition of a line or two saying “The first book in the Discworld series – The Colour of Magic – was published in 1983. Some elements of the #Discworld universe may reflect this" really would not bother him
Pour ce dessin je voulais avant tout dessiner un ciel plein d’étoiles et de planètes, avec quelque chose qui voyagerait au milieu. Je partais pour un quelconque animal marin mais il est vite devenu évident que ça ne pouvait être qu’elle, sinon personne…
I find it slightly curious that the one article on my 14 year old blog that is consistently doing numbers is that one thing I once wrote about why Terry Pratchett switched his German publishers.
But it seems to get posted by someone every few months and I get a spike in readers for a day.
Are we doing #introductions again? I live in the North of England with my wife and two cats. I love #Discworld#SciFi (especially Ursula K LeGuin and N.K.Jemisin). Play #Fallout#Skyrim#Switch Always trying to learn how to be better in the world. Interests: #Gardening#Feminism#UKpolitics Toots on: whatever show I’m watching, mainly :)
Just finished The Light Fanstastic by Terry Pratchett.
I enjoyed it a lot, I’m not sure if there are more Rincewind books but whilst I enjoyed him as a character, I’m looking forward to reading about another part of the Disc next
S'il y a un auteur qui a sauvé ma vie, c'est Terry Pratchett et son #Discworld.
Ce monde est plat, juché sur 4 éléphants eux mêmes debouts sur, une tortue interstellaire.
Dessus, la petite fille de la Mort apprend à des enfants a se mettre en colère contre les monstres, et à menacer les croques mitaines de la couverture aux lapins duveteux.
Utilisons #Quirm pour partager entre passionnées francophones, parce que moi ça me manque qu'on ne se retrouve pas les unes les autres.
Really excited about my upcoming stint as a D&D Dungeon Master. I've never DM'd a full campaign before(only one-shots) so I needed a world I knew through and through and that is the #Discworld
Only a week of planning left. Very nervous but very much looking forward to it!
All in all, #Discworld is probably my favourite "thing". My Mastermind specialist subject.
But the video games. Oh the video games. Incredible casting. Wonderful humour. Insane object puzzles / clever lateral thinking exercises. And Rincewind.
I'm about half-way through my re-read of all of Terry Pratchett's #Discworld novels. Tonight, I finished "Jingo".
Terry seemed to have realized by "Jingo" that Watch Novels need to be something other than 'someone tried to off Vetinari'. This one is quite different and yet... still very familiar because the Watch have little choice but to remain true to their characters. "Jingo" is also probably the point there you realize Terry has not only gotten serious with his social commentary, but is not going to give up on social commentary, either. It is a master story-teller (still) at the top of his game. The whole novel is marvellously coherent and well-paced.
It might also be the first novel where the Turnaround is so very blatantly obvious. This is the point where Vimes realizes a fact that completely changes him from reacting to events to responding to events. You can almost hear all those Discworld fans cheering at the very moment Vimes does this shift. And what's even more delicious is that it is as a result of something very small and subtle that Vetinari does for Sam.
Ah... Vetinari. We see a lot of Vetinari in this novel, and it is words well spent. Very well spent, in fact. Little new is really provided, of course, but that's not the point. We see the man simply being himself, gently manipulating people and situations so that Ankh-Morpork doesn't lose. And that also means doesn't fight a war against a foe that would wipe the floor with it. It is also subtly impressive that we also encounter someone who is not afraid of Vetinari like most of the city is: famous inventor Leonard of Quirm.
"Jingo" is normally regarded as a Watch Novel. But by this point, Watch Novels have become Vimes Novels. It also oddly struggles to shine in the shadow of "Hogfather" and the next half-dozen novels. Quite a problem to have! But still an excellent novel.
Last night was my last session DMing our D&D #Discworld adventure.
The players roamed between Ankh Morpork and Quirm, contaminated a crime scene, discovered a brotherhood and fought creatures from the Dungeon Dimensions.
Thought I'd share my intro and cover for the adventure <3
While designing and writing a (complete unofficial) #discworld campaign for Dungeons and Dragons, I definitely should NOT be wasting time writing the rules for "in case the party wish to play football"
Today I set out to memorize the titles of all the Discworld books in order. I've made it to twenty (Hogsfather, which was over of the first I read) so far.
I came to Terry Pratchett via Good Omens, and then went on to read Thud! which was just out in paperback. I continued to devour Discworld, and eagerly awaited each new book. The Shepherd's Crown made me weep when I read it, knowing it was the last.
The past two years and more, I've read to my wife every night, and we've been making our way through Discworld together. We laugh, we weep, we clutch each other in suspense. We're treated to a world we wish was ours.