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• justanotherusername commented on Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download
  This (translated) quote should sound familiar: And that's why he (Hans Jansen) thought of a revolutionary plan. The books need to be destroyed, it's the only way to safe them. "I see only one solution: cut open the back of the books and run them through the scanner as a pile of papers. You've lost the book that way, but you've made a digital copy for les than 10 bucks. (Hans Jansen is head of Research & Development of the Royal Library of Den Haag) From: Dit boek moet kapot (NRC Handelsblad, 22 November 2007)...
• Clay commented on Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download
  I keep intending to read this (and now have even fewer excuses than before) but I keep hearing that I should read earlier Vinge first. Is the consensus A Fire Uopn the Deep?...
• abb3w commented on Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download
  loftwyr: Oh sure, release the book for free months after 've bought it hard cover and read it. Actually, it's been quietly available since at least early June. I've pointed five local university faculty at it on-line; one ignored my recommendation outright (bastard!), two bought copies, one just read it online. The last... is worried; she does not understand that world, but also sees far too much of it growing around her. She's still debating whether to buy it or not....
• hemidemisemiquaver commented on Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download
  The text is kind of littered with these tags. TO get rid of them, you need to do a search and replace with an actual html tag, like %s///g...
• Nelson.C commented on Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download
  Hemidemi @17, the tags are part of the text, for flavour and verisimilitude. If you read the book, you'll notice that they are part of the intaweb chat between the characters, not just randomly left in by poor proof-reading....