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2024-05-11, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
So I recently got back into re-reading OOTS over from the start - I bought books 1 to 5 (plus -1 and 0) some years ago, and they sat on my bookshelf for aaages, making me feel bad for not reading them all the way through. I've read the first 3 books now, and nearly finished on Book 2. ^^ Loving them sooo much!
But I was wondering, if there is currently anywhere that I can buy both (or either) Book 1/2 and Book D? I've tried the most obvious places after the Ookadook shop - Amazon, eBay - with no luck, apart from one eBay seller who is selling Book D along with 5 of the other books for almost £240, which seems a bit steep (and doubly so as I have those other books already xD)
Any ideas for other places I could try? :)
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2024-05-11, 11:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
I think both of these are out of print. I don't think there's any official digital copies of Snips Snails and Dragon Tails but the Gumroad store sells digital copies of Good Deeds Gone Unpunished.
Last edited by Errorname; 2024-05-11 at 11:19 PM.
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2024-05-12, 05:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
Here's the link for book 1/2 - https://richburlew.gumroad.com/l/ootsgdgu
Book D is pretty rare these days, and with the other books ij as well, that's actually cheaper than I'd expect. Though please keep in mind that i have zero interest or dealings with anything OotS other than the forums and these are just my own personal thoughts.
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2024-05-12, 05:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
Those books are all going to be hard to find in print. You are basically looking for a used seller at this point.
Book 1 and 2 can be bought in digital form at Gumroad (and IIRC, have a bit of extra commentary beyond the print version, as the digital versions were published years later):
Book 1: https://richburlew.gumroad.com/l/ootsdcf
Book 2: https://richburlew.gumroad.com/l/ootsncfpb
Snip Snails and Dragon Tails has never had a digital version, and the print version is long out of print. Hopefully Rich will do a digital version at some point, but that's not the case now. So yeah, you'd just have to look for someone selling a used copy.
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2024-05-12, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
It's a bit weird that there's no PDF of SS&DT yet - it was being held back because the physical version was exclusive to one retailer, but it's been out of stock/out of print for a while now.
Maybe the Giant is waiting for the Xmas season or somesuch.
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2024-05-18, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
Last edited by 137beth; 2024-05-18 at 09:33 PM.
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2024-05-22, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
I'm sure there's also a consideration of effort-to-reward. People would certainly buy a digital SS&DT, but how many beyond the hardcore fans actually care about something that's 100% non-canon? Possibly not enough to justify the work to make a download-quality high res version.
Yes, the files exist, and the logistics are far easier than for print versions. But if a life of working with pdfs has taught me anything, it's that the project is never as simple as you expect.
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2024-06-02, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
For some reason I know have a vision of Kubota insisting that making PDFs is exactly that simple.
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2024-06-02, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
I'm still trying to find a copy of Blood Runs in the Family. At this point I'm just gonna hold out hope that Rich might do a(n extremely less extravagant) Kickstarter for print copies of the final book, with the option to get print copies of older books.
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2024-06-03, 05:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
PDFs are also dangerous because they can be pirated.
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2024-06-04, 02:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Trying to find Book 1/2 and Book D?
That would make more sense if the print book was still available, though. SSDT is long, long out of print, and a reprint seems unlikely. So any sales you would "lose" to piracy weren't going to happen anyway -- might as well make a few sales on ebooks, even if you lose some of those to piracy. And Rich already sells ebook PDFs of the main comic volumes anyway, which he also sells as print copies.
So I don't think he's avoiding an SSDT ebook out of piracy concerns. I'm guessing the juice just isn't worth the squeeze.