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  • Try and sample a few. The actual content/character and writing style will make a difference and some will appeal more than others.

    I really enjoyed any of the Trazyn stuff - War in the Museum is a good short story but infinite and the divine is awesome.

    Picked up the eisenhorn trilogy and can’t put it down. Nice paced detective thriller in 40k universe

    There are a few samples of short stories. Try them and figure what you love to read and start there. Don’t try and do the whole thing in release/timeline.








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    4 months ago

    If you don’t mind trying something different then give the GameBall trackball a go.

    It has a lot of features and smarts that are controlled via the firmware within the unit (and as such doesn’t require extra software). Plenty you can do with extra software (same as any other device but it works well with generic)






  • Definitely needs some more testing as those numbers in the table look low to me. Archiving vs listening is a key point and storage is relatively cheap.

    Listening on cheap Bluetooth headphones then you can get away with a low bitrate. If you are using better gear and/or music that has a lot of dynamic range and comes from strings (piano/classical/etc) then I would recommend 320 but your mileage may vary.

    Listen, compare and decide. I have a library of about 110k tracks (musicbrainz-Picard is amazing) and I wish I had:

    1. Focussed more on encoding albums rather than just songs and
    2. Had 320 or flac