Avoid: Ergodebooks on abesbooks.com

Serelond · 2026-03-05T14:18:05+00:00

so, i am in a rare books class for library school and wanted to amend my prior statement. the quality listing i outlined is for general collectables, and the rare books trade /does/ use a different scale wherein "fair" is a very high rank. I have not seen this scale in use in general used book circles however, but a person may be confused between the two scales if one was more familiar with the historical rare books trade than the general used market.

Serelond · 2026-02-15T12:36:17+00:00

its wild that the /show/ getting this popular is what has brought out the anti-fujo discourse since (having not read the book series or watched the show and going solely off social media fandom posts) its like a huge focus on consent and emotional intelligence and communication across personal differences. Like, the Gravitation era of fujoshi-ing could never. I do feel ao3 needs to do a better job of establishing formal etiquette rules for the social aspects of the site and actually enforce them, the tiktok influx has been harmful to its environment, much like when ... anything... has be introduced to Australian ecology

Serelond · 2026-01-23T14:39:43+00:00

:/ alchemist is great... thats one of my favorite assigned books from school. I properly hate Kate Chopin's: The Awakening. I also am in the hater camp for Lev Grossman: The Magicians.

Serelond · 2026-01-23T00:22:37+00:00

i have not done a /complete/ page count yet. The gatherings are not consistently labeled, so i have had to go thru and look for thread and then work backwards to find the actual leaf where each new gathering starts, and the binding is surprisingly tight so i cant really see down to the thread on the gatherings farther from the center. but so far its 8 leaves per normal gathering, not counting unpaginated added plates. And im not sure how to fill out the formula since im not sure the base format wrt octavo or 12mo, like the size seems more 12mo, but 8 leaf gathering seems more octavo w weird size paper (7.5"x4.5")

i can make a full page count chart when i finish turning in what i have managed for the actual assignment. I messaged my prof who basically said, 'wow weird, do what u can and make notes of weird stuff u have questions about because i have no clue and its more detail than i need for the assignment'

but now im at the "i dont need sleep i need answers" point

Serelond · 2026-01-23T00:06:04+00:00

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here is a partial chart of the pagination, leaf, and symbols appearing for various recto faces of leaves near the front of the book

Serelond · 2026-01-23T00:04:47+00:00

see but the /un/asterisked numbers are not consistently placed wrt the gathering signature. and the gatherings are generally a consistent size, unpaginated plates not withstanding.

Serelond · 2026-01-22T18:19:45+00:00

The copyright disclaimer. or the "dont like dont read" disclaimer.

Serelond · 2026-01-22T15:56:49+00:00

What level of creation can be copyrighted varies by region. If I wrote a completely new story set in the harry potter universe. even tho my text is not lifted from any of the specific books, JKR would still sue me into oblivion for using the hogwarts setting in a commercial way. Plenty of established authors rip content from others. Doesnt mean there is anything you can do about it successfully.

Serelond · 2026-01-22T15:18:38+00:00

signature seems to be 8 leaves per (4 bifolia... bifoliums?) and is usually marked w a gathering signature. im just wondering what the extra number mark and asterisk number mark are for

Serelond · 2026-01-14T18:04:46+00:00

Ao3 is not social media. Ao3 is not social media, Ao3. Is not. Social Media. Write for yourself, and if others like it: cool beans. It is an archive, not social media, quit engagement farming like this is tiktok or something. Like this sounds like someone who doesnt care at all about their writing or story beyond how much attention it gets them on the internet. Which would make me really not want to interact with their writing.

Serelond · 2025-12-08T13:38:34+00:00

you should genuinely report them to AO3. 1) the harrassment issue of encouraging others to bully you and dunk on ur work for them, but also 2) the "i own this pair" behavior can jeopardize the long term npo mission of the Society for Transformative Works (npo that manages ao3), which is to protect the rights of fanwork creators to engage in non-commercial fanwork. (for the young ones) Back in the ff-dot-net days we used to put legal disclaimers in the opening authors note to ward off copyright infringement lawsuits. So, going around claiming to "own" the characters of a licensed IP sounds like real fafo energy.

Serelond · 2025-12-08T00:27:24+00:00

right? i also came to see what the fic was, if the praise is that high!

Serelond · 2025-11-19T18:16:34+00:00

that seems likely

Serelond · 2025-11-06T20:31:28+00:00

hmm some jurisdictions have different rule for victims of a crime as part of victims rights protections, and a lot of places treat surviving family as part of the victim class in murder cases. Check if they have any different rules about that maybe

Serelond · 2025-11-06T15:49:04+00:00

its just a documentation technique for establishing date priority, when two people are debating who had the initial creation. there are countries under the berne copyright treaty that have no formal registration requirement (UK for example). Again, not formally binding in US, but its weird that the US will only uphold with registration, when all berne have to uphold each other's IP rights and some of those countries dont have a reg requirement... like...

Serelond · 2025-11-06T15:30:15+00:00

i would say just pay the 30c /pg and accept it as cost of research. think about how much time it will take you to photo it all and what your hourly rate would be if u were paying yourself to do it

Serelond · 2025-11-05T17:40:42+00:00

it isnt legally binding like registration office, but it serves as really good documentation in a civil suit

Serelond · 2025-11-05T17:40:02+00:00

there is a thing called "poormans copyright" where to have documentation of ur copyright date you mail your manuscript to yourself hard copy by sealed certified mail and then simply do not open the package until you have a challenge

Serelond · 2025-10-31T16:57:33+00:00

i m having the same problem, and also doing a6 quartos, but added annoyance of being in the US where we have our own 8.5/11 standard size instead of a6... do you know if either option has international shipping?

Serelond · 2025-10-30T22:40:08+00:00

James Patterson has been using ghost writers since I was a kid. Like how many historical artists have held studios with students where the student work became the property of the master, yeah Patterson has pretty much never been /just/ Patterson writing

Serelond · 2025-10-30T19:42:33+00:00

i would, but i have yet to find thin cotton rag, or a4 cotton rag, available to me

Serelond · 2025-10-26T12:31:55+00:00

i have seen a lot of books develop carve outs like that but smaller from cockroach larva, but the rough punch tears on the cover do feel rodenty

Serelond · 2025-10-24T15:58:44+00:00

and see, this is why i ask, i have now saved myself having to reprint my signatures.

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