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As an Adams fan, I'd be amazed if you didn't enjoy Pratchett's books. You don't need to read them in sequence, although there would be some benefit.
You should be aware that:
- Some of his books are kids books. They're adult readable (especially the Nac Mac Feegle books), although some are a little light
- Not all of his books are about The Discworld, his main ouvre
There are several distinct threads to the Discworld books, with considerable crossover: Wizards, Witches, The City Watch, Death (the person), the Feegle (a race of small blue people with a distinct Scottish heritage "pictsies") and Moist von Lipwig (a semi-reformed con man).
One benefit over Adams is that TP has been prolific, so it will take you ages to get through all the Discworld books and although he is ailing, he is still pumping them out! Like Adams, you can read his books over and over and get something new out of them (especially his sometimes elaborate jokes).
Happy reading!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Speechless. Especially those brooms.
Marc
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Exactly. It was all over for me when I saw/read that you have to play with the brooms between your legs. 
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I think about a Palladin or Cleric
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Yes, according to my ex-wife, and all who followed her... Why do you ask?
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's all fun and games until the chafing starts.
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When the platypus swims it does so with nose, ears and eyes closed.
It uses electro reception for navigation and finding it's prey. They have almost 40,000 electroreceptors, whose sensitivity lies in the microvolt range.
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good one 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: eyes closed.
simply not true![^]
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Which should I get? Mostly will use for reading books, eg. Nook and kindle.
If Android, which device?
Thanks.
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Kindle Fire.
I have a Kindle Fire, Ipad, and Lenovo Thinkpad (Win 8.1). For reading books, kindle books specifically, the Kindle fire is hands down the best. They each have their uses though, and I'm not sure you could get the Nook software on you Kindle fire, but it is just Android after all. Most, or a lot, of android apps work fine on the Kindle Fire.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I would recommend an iPad air, very nice piece of kit!
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I use a Nexus 7 for that, and other things. Very nice, and has two big advantages over the Apple version:
1) It's considerably cheaper.
2) It doesn't involve iTunes...
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OriginalGriff wrote: 1) It's considerably cheaper.
2) It doesn't involve iTunes...
I also own the Nexus 7 and I 100% agree with what you said on both accounts.
Except I think you meant to say,
"doesn't involve [the iTunesVirus]"...
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I was being nice to the Fanbois! 
Silly question - did the 4.4.4 update "lag" your Nexus a bit? Mine seems to be slower to wake up than it used to be, particularly if it gets a wifi connection, but can't reach the internet through it (Tesco is a prime culprit here). I'm hoping that the Lollipop push will fix it when it rolls out to my device.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, I have definitely experienced the lag on my Nexus 7 also.
It has actually driven me quite crazy recently and I wrote a app to kill all processes thinking it was one of the processes which was causing the problem. Then I figured maybe the hardware was just getting old now. I noticed that the newer ones do have quite a better chip.
I'm with you on hoping that the Lollipop makes things better again. Wish they'd say when it would be deployed.
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Thank elephant for that!
I was starting to think I was the only one - I've seen nothing on t'interweb...
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I hadn't, but if you follow the link from that page to the support forum: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/nexus/to2BHjmhh-I/6vO3-W8z9nYJ[^] there was something interesting on page two about Google Now curing it for Lollipop, and a link to the instructions to turn it off: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2841495?hl=en[^] - they didn't work, but that's documentation for you - Just start the Google App as described, and touch the three vertical dots in the bottom right corner. Select "Settings". Turn "Google Now" off with the top line.
I figured it couldn't hurt to try on 4.4.4, so...
It's early yet, but my tablet lag is pretty much gone so far - I've got to go to Tesco later on, so I'll see what happens there, but I'm hopeful so far.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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iTunes may or may not be a virus. The crApple updater on the XP box that I last had a bit of their software (Quicktime Player) installed that decided that for the purpose of being able to select "No, and never offer that application to me again" my administrator account wasn't actually an administrator account and wasn't allowed to stop me from being bombarded by offers to install other iCrapplications that I had neither the need nor desire nor ability to use most definitely was.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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3) it doesn't involve iOS
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I have the Original Google Nexus 7 (Made by Asus) and bought it the day it released. It is over 2 years old now and it is a bit slower but the new ones have an even better chip. It still works very well have had no hardware issues or weird upgrade problems and it is been through 3 or 4 major Android OS upgrades. I am very happy with it.
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If you just want books, Kindle Paperwhite.
IF you want a tablet, Galaxy Tab or Google Nexus and then whatever size you want.
Despite the 'it just work claims' by the Apple brigade, it doesn't. On holiday this year, our friends daughter had endless problems with the hotels wifi, both my daughter and my android tablets worked flawlessly. The Youtube experience on an iPad was impossible, there appears to be a heavily manipulated search results, and couldn't find the videos I was trying to show them that I can find with the same keyword searches on a android or desktop experience.
And then there is the browsers....... 
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Go to the store, check them out and make your own decision. Taking advice from the zealots here in the CP Lounge is dangerous business. Everybody has varying opinions on the definition / importance of cost, quality and capabilities.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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