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Ed Oscuro

Joined: 11 Nov 2006

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Tayr wrote:

Now if only they could get the doors fixed. They have a nasty habit of getting stuck closed.

Yep, they also like to open once you get about 12 feet away, and shut just before you can get in them.

I once saw a guy run through the doors I had opened in this fashion, only to have it shut in my face again. Drat!

There's also an imaginative use of cones inside the Library. That was fun, falling out of the world that is.

mszv

Joined: 10 May 2006

Posts: 2229

Wow - the thought of being able to check out a linking book from the library. What a wonderful thing that would be!

Now, I wonder what sort of ID they would ask for, and how long would the check out period be!

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BrettM

Joined: 09 Sep 2006

Posts: 974

Location: Ethereal Plane of Atrii

The D'ni had two different words for writing: "sehl" for Age writing and "gehl" for ordinary writing. What if they also had two different words for "library"? One for libraries devoted to the Art and one for libraries devoted to ordinary text?

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jaburg

Joined: 11 Nov 2006

Posts: 118

Location: LA (Lower Alabama)

BrettM wrote:

The D'ni had two different words for writing: "sehl" for Age writing and "gehl" for ordinary writing. What if they also had two different words for "library"? One for libraries devoted to the Art and one for libraries devoted to ordinary text?

That wouldn't surprise me at all. I wonder though, if anyone has been thinking about this as I have.
We really shouldn't be able to find many linking books at all since ...
IIRC, Veovis and his crew took or destroyed all they could find in the city.
Then Atrus and the folks from Averone spent months (years?) hunting down the rest and taking them home. A large number were found to have been infected by Veovis and Aegeris but I don't recall reading what Atrus did with those.

I have not finished the Book of D'ni yet. (Atrus and the rest have just watched most of Terahnee die and the relyimah have taken over.) I know there are a bunch of books in the tomb of the Great King where they found the Terahnee book, but we haven't any indication that the DRC have found the tomb, have we?

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uecasm

Joined: 17 Jun 2006

Posts: 297

Location: New Zealand

They probably have. IC, the books are based on journals found in the cavern, and since the book explains exactly where the tomb was then presumably the journal did too, so the DRC would know about it. (It's not guaranteed, though -- it could have been artistic license.)

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MustardJeep

Joined: 10 May 2006

Posts: 2185

Location: Houston

jaburg,

I've always taken the books with a grain of salt authors just love their thesaurus's. One author I used to read talked about a funny argument he had once with his editors in Canada. He started out a chapter with someone maddly pulling miles and miles of scarves out of a drawer while in search of something hidden among the socks. His editor wanted it changed to kilometers and kilometers since Canada is metric, completly not getting the visual punch of the original wording for an american audience.

No pun but the D'ni turned books into an art form, I have no doubt the library will be filled.

And five minuits after the first book hits the shelves, I am going to be there sneeking it out to my relto in my jacket. Laughing

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Gary_Wolf

Joined: 14 May 2006

Posts: 89

Location: Brighton, UK

I think being able to take out a book from the library is a good idea assuming they have a good few thousand copies!
Imagine the waiting list for just one book Laughing

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