Unless something has changed, or I am just utterly oblivious, I could not find any way to download the books in a format that would let me transfer them off of a computer. Their files all require Adobe Digital Editions, which wouldn’t work with my eReader last time I tried.
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OK, this might help. I download books with the Kobo desktop app (sounds like you do too). I then import them into Calibre (having installed the Obok plugin), and either that or a click of “convert book” in Calibre gives me a simple epub. I don’t have another ereader but I’m led to believe that file should be useable anywhere.
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I can highly recommend the audiobook. Better than the film if you ask me.
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Thanks, I will give it a try!
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install Adobe digital editions on a Windows machine and it can download books or at least it does for me from the website and then i add them to calibre. I may or may not have at some point have had addons in Calibre to possibly deal with drm but i have most definitely not actively tried anything on the kobo/thalya books . they just work in the pocket book when downloaded via Windows.
as i previously said I’m not sure this is still the case. last time i tried was probably a year ago
I think Calibre was the missing middle-man program I needed. Definitely going to try it out. Thanks.
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I don’t get on with audiobooks, I’m afraid. No shade to those who do, but I just can’t concentrate on them enough.
Fair enough. The narration is spectacular tho.
Just started listening to Tim Curry’s memoir. He’s reading it post stroke - I’m not sure I can listen to that lovely melodious deep timbred voice so strained and awkward! 
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I don’t listen to them as a sole activity, but I like to combine them with a non-verbal task like driving.
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Another month of just reading a couple of books, but they were both very good and one was technically multiple books in one …
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My first ebook reader was also a Sony! It got so bad with age unfortunately that I had to get a new one and tbh I should have done that at least 1 if not 2 years earlier.
Switching to a new page took so long that I clicked while still reading a whole paragraph. It often crashed and I had to remember the page number I was on because the device didn’t save this information anymore.
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I am back from my month in Maine and like always it is a time full of reading.
I am in some book clubs nowadays, organized through the Malazan discord. Love them, gave me some great experiences.
We read Gene Wolfe - Claw of the Conciliator and before that The Shadow of the Torturer. The first and second book of the Book of the New Sun series. Really dense but also really good, especially if you have others to discuss them and find stuff you missed on your own.
Also Dan Simmons - Endymion is a book club book. Book 3 of his Hyperion Cantos. For me a reread but it has been so long (20 years) and I read them in German back then that I wanted to see if I still liked them. Yeah, great book though book 1 and 2 are even better. Still look forward to book 4.
Right now we are in the middle of China Mieville - Perdido Street Station which seems to be a banger too. Excited to see where it goes.
I also managed to finish one of my bingos this year and made some progress in the other.
Like always while I am in Maine, I read some Maine literature. Two more books of Paul Doiron’s Mike Bowditch series, book 14 Dead Man’s Wake and 15 Pitch Dark this time. Next year I should catch up and then need a new one to start.
For the bingo I read Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games. Never saw the movies either. I liked the story but the YA style annoyed me a lot. EVERY thought was spelled out, so that the reader is not missing anything while the girl is behaving a bit irrational like kids are. I thought that was a bit too on the nose but I can see why she went for it.
Masud Husain - Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain: A fascinating science book about our brain. Easy to read and very interesting. Good fit for the science bingo square.
Matt Haig - The Midnight Train, the successor to the Midnight Library which I thought was a cute book. This is very similar, more of the same basically. Read it for the bingo and it was a fast read, so all okay.
William Golding - Lord of the Flies: I thought it is time to read this classic (it also fit my bingo). I didn’t like it much, maybe I should have read it when it came out or when I was much younger but I thought its message was not very subtle and also nothing new. But the latter could be because it is an old book now. One of my weaker books this summer.
I finished reading all of Steven Erikson’s Malazan books / stories. Some short stories were missing and I finished The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach and the one which is not in a collected tale yet Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords. The short stories are more humorous than the main series and especially Crack’d Pot Trail is amazing imo.
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Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy and the Prince. I’ve read the latter before but reread it again because it feels like something to be read with Discourses.
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There’s even a whole book (which I used to own) discussing the Book of the New Sun, which just revealed to me that I’d missed about 90% of what was going on:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solar-Labyrinth-Exploring-Gene-Wolfes/dp/0595317294/
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There exists even more literature around it as far as I know. I love it!
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