Reply to post #29 (show post):
ALL the Discworld books work for one, in most case several categories in the bingo. So we're probably going to end up with a bunch of rogue reads in addition to the group read ... yey!

Reply to post #30 (show post):
I like the idea of alternating months with the Flat Book group.

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The Colour of Magic should work for Cryptozoologist as well. There are dragons and a Cthulu-like tentacled monster (the beast of 8 or whatever it was). Probably a few more.

Not sure what to say about start dates. I do like the idea of alternating with Flat Book Society reads, but we also probably don't want to clash with the official Halloween buddy read.

The audiobooks are generally quite well done. They follow a couple different techniques when it comes to the footnotes. I think in a few cases there are actual chimes that sound when a footnote is read but mostly they just get read as part of the text. So you don't necessarily realize that it's a footnote, but you're not missing them either.

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Planer is quite good at intimating verbally (intonation, etc. -- without actually saying "footnote") that this is actually what he is reading at the moment. You may not catch all of them that way, but at least with some, the notion comes across.

Shall we go for a mid-month start date this time around in order to avoid clashing too hard with either the official Halloween Bingo group read or the next Flat Book Society read? (And then move into a bi-monthly rhythm after that, alternating with the Flat Book Society reads?)

Reply to post #35 (show post):
That sounds like a good plan to me.

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I'm in favour of this plan too - I'll be home mid-month and will be able to give more attention to it, and it won't clash with any of the other planned reads.

@Portable Magic: I too can say the audio versions are excellent; I just finished Witches Abroad yesterday, my first Nigel Planer. He's excellent as everyone else says - my only beef was his choice of voices for Magrat and Ella - both sounded like complete dullards. I liked Celia Imrie's Magrat much better, but hated her Granny Wetherwax. So... 6 of one half dozen of the other. :)

I'm in the queue currently for Lords and Ladies, hoping it comes available after September 1st so I can use it for The Grimm square.

Well, I'm pleased to report that the Houston public library has several of the Discworld and Disworld-adjacent books on audio. But for some reason, the first book - Colour of Magic - isn't available on audio anywhere, not even Audible. Unless I want to pay a ridiculous $60 for a used audio CD set! I'm not sure why it's so hard to get hold of here, it must be a licensing thing.

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I can't believe I, in the land that audio licensing forgot, can get something you can't in the US. I'm gobsmacked. Although there are so many reservations for the audio it might as well be non-existent, but I put my name in too ... maybe I'll get lucky and it will be my turn in September sometime.

Of course, I'm going to pick up a print copy too - just in case.

Works for me. Audible does have a pre-order of the BBC radio plays. Not Color of Magic, but Mort, Guards Guards, Wryd Sisters, Eric.

That's truly weird about the Planer audio for Color of Magic in the U.S. -- I just added it to my Audible basket! Must be a licensing thing for sure, but usually it's the other way round!

It may be a temporary licensing thing (agreements expire and have to be renegotiated), not that that helps in the short run.

I checked myself, and for some reason Colour of Magic appears to be available for me in Canada on the Audible.com web site.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Colour-of-Magic-Audiobook/
Weird?

Reply to post #42 (show post):
Hmm. A Commonwealth thing?

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Maybe, but for book rights Canada usually gets lumped in with the US once American agreements exist.

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Just wondering, because the Audible edition still seems to be available on Amazon.co.uk ...

And this is Penguin Random House, which on the one hand is in majority Bertelsmann ownership (the Random House division, including Random House Audio, is still a 100% Bertelsmann subsidiary), so the shareholder isn't American -- but the corporate HQ is in New York. So it's really making less and less sense that the American edition, of all things, shouldn't be available on Audible, whereas all the other editions are.