Ebook readers and 8th Doctor novels
Mar. 8th, 2012 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_sunI'm thinking of getting an ebook reader, probably a Kobo touch, as there's a really good offer on them at the moment from WHSmiths - £80 rather than about £140/150.
It's an E Ink, 6" touch screen with WiFi connection, and can read html, txt, rtf, pdf, epub, jpeg, tif, gif, mobi.
It seems to have good reviews, and I was wondering anybody has used one? and if so what did they think of it? Good/bad, better to keep saving for a Kindle?
Having a reread of some of the Eight Doctor stories - starting with The Taint by Michael Collier, which is the first one Fitz appears in.
I wish Collier had written more Doctor Who novels as I quite like his writing style - it's more adult than a lot of the other Doctor Who novels (although that's true of pretty much all of the 8th Doctor novels), but it manages to stay fun as well. Like the first meeting of Fitz and the Doctor, which involves a fake French accent and a rather wilted begonia plant.
The slightly flirtly tone of some of the Fitz Doctor conversations is something that seems to continue (more or less depending on the writer) through out the 55 stories they both appear in.
Fitz shook his head in disbelief. The world had gone mad. Attempting to sit up, he suddenly realised how much he hurt. 'No one ask me if I'm all right, will you?' he moaned.
'Oh, how could you not be?' said the Doctor, with an innocent smile.' Anyone from Toulouse is all right with me.'
Fitz is still with the 8th Doctor in the last of the 8th Doctor books The Gallifrey Chronicles, and given some of the things he'd (Fitz) had said in some of the books about the TARDIS being home, and not leaving, he and possibly Trix (the 8th Doctor's other companion in the last book) most like remain with the Doctor until Gallifrey is hidden/destroyed/timelocked whichever interpretation of events you prefer.
There is some fanon speculation that the coat the 9th Doctor wears was actually Fitz's coat, as it's pretty similar to the one that Fitz wears in many of the stories.
It's an E Ink, 6" touch screen with WiFi connection, and can read html, txt, rtf, pdf, epub, jpeg, tif, gif, mobi.
It seems to have good reviews, and I was wondering anybody has used one? and if so what did they think of it? Good/bad, better to keep saving for a Kindle?
Having a reread of some of the Eight Doctor stories - starting with The Taint by Michael Collier, which is the first one Fitz appears in.
I wish Collier had written more Doctor Who novels as I quite like his writing style - it's more adult than a lot of the other Doctor Who novels (although that's true of pretty much all of the 8th Doctor novels), but it manages to stay fun as well. Like the first meeting of Fitz and the Doctor, which involves a fake French accent and a rather wilted begonia plant.
The slightly flirtly tone of some of the Fitz Doctor conversations is something that seems to continue (more or less depending on the writer) through out the 55 stories they both appear in.
Fitz shook his head in disbelief. The world had gone mad. Attempting to sit up, he suddenly realised how much he hurt. 'No one ask me if I'm all right, will you?' he moaned.
'Oh, how could you not be?' said the Doctor, with an innocent smile.' Anyone from Toulouse is all right with me.'
Fitz is still with the 8th Doctor in the last of the 8th Doctor books The Gallifrey Chronicles, and given some of the things he'd (Fitz) had said in some of the books about the TARDIS being home, and not leaving, he and possibly Trix (the 8th Doctor's other companion in the last book) most like remain with the Doctor until Gallifrey is hidden/destroyed/timelocked whichever interpretation of events you prefer.
There is some fanon speculation that the coat the 9th Doctor wears was actually Fitz's coat, as it's pretty similar to the one that Fitz wears in many of the stories.