I am at work at the library, on a Monday night, and you...

[Faeriel]

Comparing the appeal of an entire series of fiction written by multiple authors to a single series by one terrible author?  Man, you've got no kindling for your flame.

[Leyujin]

Star Wars novels are like Twilight novels.  Only fanbois like that tripe.

Hey, some cultures enjoy eating tripe!

That said, I cannot in any way be called a Star Wars fanboy. Didn't bother to watch the third "prequel", since watching the first two assured me that the last one would be like the others, aka complete bloody shit. And I prefer my Babylon 5 and Firefly to Star Wars any day of the week. Still, I have a fair amount of Star Wars novels. Zahn's are definitely pretty fun, since Thrawn is a badass. I even have the Yuuzhan Vong stuff, which aren't all that great... except Traitor. I loved Traitor.

I really think the Battletech universe during the Clans is pretty interesting. Good political intrigue, believable universe and dynamics, interesting characters. I think Loren Coleman's two-book piece on Sun Tzu's Xin Sheng movement are damn good. I haven't read any of the Dark Age novels, but that whole universe doesn't appeal to me nearly as much. If I need a dose of post-apocalyptic worlds, I'll go read 40K novels, thank you very much. And seriously, mechs with medieval melee weapons? Right. (Don't bring up Axemen and Hatchetmen, you know what I mean.)

Actually, although I know that most of Battletech is the mech warfare (and the central purpose of the game), as far as novels go I'd almost be more interested if they had gone the Golden Age route after the FedCom civil war. First off, we wouldn't have the ridiculous knight mechs and another post-apocalypse, second there's plenty of material for the mending of the Inner Sphere and Inner Sphere/Clan dynamics. Sure it wouldn't be as full of warfare, but I personally feel the Battletech universe stands by itself well enough. As I said, political intrigue!

[Agrovale]

Comparing the appeal of an entire series of fiction written by multiple authors to a single series by one terrible author?  Man, you've got no kindling for your flame.

Tripe is tripe no matter what you call it.  I used to have the Thrawn series and it was...ok.  Whatever came right after it?  I wanted to take the blue pill and get the hell out of The Matrix. 

[Faeriel]

Star Wars novels are like Twilight novels.  Only fanbois like that tripe.

Hey, some cultures enjoy eating tripe!

That said, I cannot in any way be called a Star Wars fanboy. Didn't bother to watch the third "prequel", since watching the first two assured me that the last one would be like the others, aka complete bloody shit. And I prefer my Babylon 5 and Firefly to Star Wars any day of the week. Still, I have a fair amount of Star Wars novels. Zahn's are definitely pretty fun, since Thrawn is a badass. I even have the Yuuzhan Vong stuff, which aren't all that great... except Traitor. I loved Traitor.

I really think the Battletech universe during the Clans is pretty interesting. Good political intrigue, believable universe and dynamics, interesting characters. I think Loren Coleman's two-book piece on Sun Tzu's Xin Sheng movement are damn good. I haven't read any of the Dark Age novels, but that whole universe doesn't appeal to me nearly as much. If I need a dose of post-apocalyptic worlds, I'll go read 40K novels, thank you very much. And seriously, mechs with medieval melee weapons? Right. (Don't bring up Axemen and Hatchetmen, you know what I mean.)

Actually, although I know that most of Battletech is the mech warfare (and the central purpose of the game), as far as novels go I'd almost be more interested if they had gone the Golden Age route after the FedCom civil war. First off, we wouldn't have the ridiculous knight mechs and another post-apocalypse, second there's plenty of material for the mending of the Inner Sphere and Inner Sphere/Clan dynamics. Sure it wouldn't be as full of warfare, but I personally feel the Battletech universe stands by itself well enough. As I said, political intrigue!

Yeah, the intrigue was one of my favorite parts about the BattleTech universe, particularly pre-Clan.  It was funny, reading through the warrior trilogy again and realizing that all the mech combat stuff in them is so tacked on.  The real emphasis in those books is the great characterizations, and crazy webs of intrigue and plots threading through the Inner Sphere's power structure.

[Kazthul]

I've tried to utilize books, but I have qualms with their graphic interface.  Either their resolution is too high or the UI is just plain dreadful.  As a former UI customization junkie, I can't do default UI books.  Sorry.

Here is some tech support for you...

Mal

I fail to see how this applies to me.  I understand how to use books and don't need to call the help desk.

I'd probably crush books if I bought an eReader or and iPad.

[Yichimet]

We just convinced our Friends of the Library group to buy us a Sony eReader (because our downloadable audiobooks through Overdrive will pretty much only be compatible with the Sony devices, grrrr) so we can demo our new downloads service. I'm stoked to try it out, disappointed that it had to be the eReader. C'est la vie.