{"id":5113,"date":"2018-04-12T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T08:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2018-04-12T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T08:13:45","slug":"from-slab-to-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/04\/12\/from-slab-to-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"From slab to tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Addenda and Corrigenda<\/a> for the “now so big, it’s square-shaped!” new edition of the J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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If your letter box and\/or wrists can’t quite cope with such hefty slabs, I see there are now Kindle ebook tablet editions of the 2017 edition. Although these don’t show up as links from Amazon’s hardback\/boxed-set page. Here are the links to the ebooks:<\/p>\n

* Volume 1: Chronology<\/a> (\u00a324)<\/p>\n

* Volume 2: Reader’s Guide – PART 1<\/a> (\u00a35)<\/p>\n

* Volume 3: Reader’s Guide – PART 2<\/a> (\u00a324)<\/p>\n

So \u00a353 for the lot. Not bad, and on the Kindle these are also keyword-searchable to boot (albeit individually, rather than all three at once — I know of no tool that will index across multiple .mobi files, even they were to be DRM free). <\/p>\n

What is the difference between Reader’s Guide – PART 1 and PART 2? The publisher’s description is useless on that point. But thankfully there’s a view of the Contents page on Google Books:<\/p>\n

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Apparently the Index in Vol. 1 and Vol. 3 are both duplicates of each other, and presumably they refer to the pages of the print version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Addenda and Corrigenda for the “now so big, it’s square-shaped!” new edition of the J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. If your letter box and\/or wrists can’t quite cope with such hefty slabs, I see there are now Kindle ebook tablet editions of the 2017 edition. Although these don’t show up as links from Amazon’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}