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Daily Reading (June 9th)

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2015-06-09 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Livechat with an Amazon rep, because my Kindle Fire HD doornailed. :(

Also The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide by Bronwen Forbes. AN ACTUAL BOOK WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-06-09 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I read the minutes to the Body Corporate's AGM (which I was unable to attend) facebook, some twitter, and am going to try to finish Pocket Apocalypse before I fall asleep. I have less than 100 pages to go, so it is theoretically possible.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-06-09 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
WHOO BOOKS!
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2015-06-09 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm proofreading-copyediting-editing all at once a book about postcards for a friend. (His great-grandmother's correspondence postcards! They are great! His prose needs... a little work with my hand sander.)
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-06-09 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck with managing the prose without giving offense.
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2015-06-09 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
We have to have a talk about commas. I know he thinks he is right, and it is his thing, but by gum I am putting them in because otherwise it's just a stream of words without a breath. And hyphens.

He has it all dummied up in Word (I have tried to have talk with him about that too, Word just Suuuuuuucks for this) and only sent me a PDF so it is v v v difficult to read and correct.

He is a very good, longstanding friend and I do not mind.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-06-09 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Copy editing a PDF sounds like hell. At least with word you can make comments and track changes.
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[personal profile] weaverbird 2015-06-09 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Twitter and lots of associated links (it's how I get much of my news), and a bunch of work stuff - Word docs and Excel spreadsheets, plus bookkeeping files, emails etc.

Once the predicted thunderstorms roll in, I'll turn off the computer and read more Howard's End.
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[personal profile] miss_pavonated 2015-06-09 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I just finished The Gunslinger by Stephen King. It was an interesting read, I think I'm going to read book 2 before I pass any judgement either way.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-06-10 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thunderstorms have to be good for something!
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-06-10 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
It's things like this that made a friend decide he was not going to read series books until they were all out.
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[personal profile] nanila 2015-06-10 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Lots and lots of Dreamwidth catchup.
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