I’m researching stuff for my Exchange-fic-to-be. I don’t really need to, my outline is done and fun. But I want to. Because, you know, I just love research.
So I thought I might as well share some of my favourite research tools with you.
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The winners of “Hagrid’s Winter Games” have been announced over at ![[lj comm]](http://juno-magic.fancrone.net/blog/wp-content/themes/junomagic/img/users.png)
hogwarts_owl: “And the winners are …”
… and I can haz SHINY!
(Yes, I can totally squee over a banner I made. 
I seriously never expected to end up on any kind of place for this … normally I suck at computer games! And actually, I did suck at the winter games, too … I only ever got zero for Nogtail Slap.) Anyway, go and ogle the banners and congratulate the winners!
OWL
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I’m curious about notepads, the paper kind.
Therefore, here be a poll.
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I’d be very grateful if someone could translate a Spanish review for me!
ETA: Thank you, Duniazade & Fer for your beautiful translation! 
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- the Amazon vs. Macmillan kerfuffle: Amazon and Macmillan are fighting over ebook prices. Macmillan (i.e. the publisher) doesn’t want to accept the fixed Kindle prices Amazon (i.e. the bookshop) wants. Of course they want higher prices, too, but also more flexibility – which kind of sort of makes sense. While I won’t buy an ebook for real!book hardcover prices – as a reader and customer, I’m cheap! – as a translator, editor and hopeful writer, I’m also aware that very low prices for books and ebooks will affect how (and IF) can make a living.
Friday night, Amazon threw a tantrum and took all books published by Macmillan and subsidiaries (including Kingfisher, Macmillan, Pan, Picador, Boxtree, Sidgwick & Jackson, Tor, Macmillan Children’s Books, Young Picador, Campbell Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, First Second Books, Henry Holt, Macmillan Audio, Palgrave Macmillan, Picador, Tor Books, Roaring Brook Press, St. Martin’s Press, and the Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group) off its website. Because oh woe, Macmillan has a “monopoly” on their titles. 
Read more: witty and wicked, “Amazon.fail and you’re done” at John Scalzi’s blog, or interesting and informative, “Zinc Blinked” at westerblog.
- more about ebooks: Ayerf and Kribu have conspired and got me hooked on the “Percy Jackson” series. I saw the trailer for the movie and thought it might be fun. Yesterday I bought the first ebook of the series (at Waterstones) and devoured it in one sitting. I love my Sony eReader. I’ve also acquired the first book in the “Harper Connelly” mystery seriey by Charlaine Harris. And vowed only to by ebooks for Sherrilyn Kenyon novels from now on. I can’t resist her crack!fic, but I’ve deeply regretted wasting shelf space for the three Darkhunter/Dreamhunter books I acquired over Christmas.
- yet more about ebooks: Setting up an account at a big American-based international ebook seller made me wonder: a) Why do some sites force people to put in states/provinces? Not every country does that in terms of postal addresses. So I put “—” or “n/a”. *shrug* b) Why does an international online ebook bookshop need my phone number? Thankfully I have an online voicebox. But seriously, why??? Do they want to call me and ask if the download worked?
And … weekend. With pictures!
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(But there’s good stuff, too.) 
- Support WTF. Company A – does not read my question. Company B – does not only fail to read my question but responds with sending me a link without which I could not have asked my question in the first place. Company C – blithely tells me that there will be no Windows 7 support for a device that is recommended as an accessory for a Windows 7 laptop. *headdesks*
- Friend. The friend who had surgery for cancer last week is doing really well. Doctors are positive they got everything out (a fist size tumour!) and that there are no metastases. Soon she’ll be off to rehab, and with a little bit of luck the cancer shouldn’t return. Thank you, God.
- Trashy translation. Translation will be finished this week. Proofreading, editing, cutting, and more proofreading lie ahead. I’m right on schedule and have learnt about the erotic effects of the steam of blanched cabbage, and about Bolivian royalty. (Yes. I know.)
- Museum. I got up early to call the mayor. Seems I can go ahead with planning the Museum’s Day 2010. If he doesn’t forget about it, he’ll also mention the project next week to the director of the local middle school so I have a starting point for setting up an appointment. Yay?
- Snow. *can haz nu sno* It’s been snowing last night and all day so far, tiny, fluffy flakes, amassing some 10–20cm at the moment. The local birds have finally broken down and are coming to the feeding station on our balcony. The cats have seen it all before and are not interested. If my camera recharges in time, I may go for a wintery walk later.
- Website. I’ve been working on the story summaries some more and uploading some of the LotR short stories I hadn’t posted on Fancrone Net so far. One day I should revise all of them … *weeps*
- Guy with the wrong phone number. I have bad news for you. Trying it again and again won’t turn the number of my new cell phone into the number you’re trying to reach.
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I suspect it’s the cold and the cough that I’ve been dragging around with me since the beginning of December that left me nearly comatose today.
However, there is progress in between naps: I’ve read a little*, cleaned up parts of the kitchen, and now I’m here.
*“Flesh and Fire” by Laura Anne Gilman, recommended to me by the wonderful Mia Madwyn – I’m on page 150, and while I find the pastiche of Christian symbolism employed rather obtrusive, it’s nice reading … my favourite character so far: a guardian carved out of stone with magic that looks like a dragon.
This post, I think, then another nap.
Meme first, ganked from the wonderful ![[lj user]](http://juno-magic.fancrone.net/blog/wp-content/themes/junomagic/img/user.png)
ariadne1 who said such terribly nice things about me that my cheeks went all hot:
“I know that 2009 was pretty horrid for a lot of people, and to be honest, 2010 has been no great shakes so far. One way we might make the rest of 2010 a bit better is to spread some love around. So if you care to reply to this post I will give you a response of something I like about you.
If you like participating in these sorts of things and want to repost this in your LJ, that would be fun, too.”
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February 6th, 2010
