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Nooooooo! You mean you read JGL's spoiler without knowing beforehand what would happen???? Oh no! But then, when you did get to The Final Problem, wailed at what happens, but then realized that you were less than halfway through the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, you might have figured out that...

You can, and you can. Send an email to the owners here and they can change your username here if you wish (but you will upset 8 years of familiarity of people who know you as Ronny). You send a request to the FB folks on the change of names as well. I did it before. Note, however, that you are...

Ronny, I just downloaded the entire library of Sherlock Holmes story to my Kindle for free, by just sending the attachment as an attachment to my Kindle account. If you're already an Amazon user, you will be amazed at how prone you are to accidentally buying ebooks. It's easy as heck. If you're...

Er, no, I think. I learned a long time ago keeping alteregos in other forums with common acquaintances is a double-edged sword (and plenty of chances for awkward PMs). Any forum you're specifically referring to? (although I can probably safely stay with the answer no, because I'm a banana, not...

beergood is probably drinking tea with the committee as we speak. The Nobel for Literature committee meets very near (in the Nobel Museum/Swedish Academy) to where he stays (near, compared to the rest of us, because he stays in Stockholm, and the committee is in Stockholm. Hah!). I've been to...

Sinophile doesn't seem to have the same 'feel' as an Anglophile. But I too think you got the right word. :) You Sinophile you...

Haha! Before I disappear into the ether once more, and reappear next year, as I do every year. :)

PDF handling on most readers (I mean specifically handheld readers, either ebook readers or smartphones, excepting tablets) are crap. Most don't do reflow, and those that do tend to do them poorly, especially for PDFs that already have fancy formatting in place. PDFs on Kindles are painful.

If you haven't yet tried Guy Gavriel Kay (GGK), Meadow, you have to stop doing whatever you're doing right now and go get to him. Like pronto! I recommend Lions of Al-Rassan, but his more recent ones are good too, and seeing that you're a Chinese-ophile, then you should like them, since they are...

This is a very interesting question to me, as I grow older I'm finding that I'm getting very curmudgeony about what I read. Fantasy is my first love, but looking through my reading log I find that I've not been reading fantasy all that much now. Out of approx 40 books over the 12 months or so...

I loved Gone Gone Gone.

Hmm, this is a big pain, I agree. I dislike the fact that Amazon is holding out on epub support. The bastards!

Now reading Getting Things Done, by David Allen. Very interesting. I also just got Genghis Khan, by Jack Weatherford (from Audible).

Is there an equivalent word to Anglophile, but for all things Chinese?

Onward, friends! Things will change as they will, may our friends be happy wherever they are, as we make new enduring ones here!

Occlith, I surely will. Along with the bewildering Howl's Moving Castle. Gita, which part of India are you from?

One nobel laureate in literature punched another in the face. Apparently it was over a girl. Figures. Puncher=Vargas Llosa. Punchee=Garcia Marquez.

Ponyo was one seriously weird movie. I love Ghibli, but that was weird. I think I need to rewatch it.

Is it another name for Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl, where she goes 'B-A-N-A-N-A-S' for no apparent reason in a song that did not at any other time allude to any sort of fruit at all? p.s. And how can I forget, I was Harry Potternana too!

George Eliot was a lady. And according to Black Adder, Jane Austen was "a huge Yorkshireman with a beard like a rhododendron bush." Ok, one was true, and the other wasn't, but both are useful (one to elicit 'Oooohs', and the other rousing laughter) and thus deserving of learning as useless facts.