Ready for the 6/13/2023 release of HoME Vols. 10-12?

[Ent]

What a happy find.
"The Later Silmarillion" Part 1 - HoME Vol. 10, Morgoth's Ring
"The Later Silmarillion" Part 2 - HoME Vol. 11, The War of the Jewels and:
The Peoples of Middle Earth, HoME Vol. 12

All will be released on 6/13/2023 in Kindle format. Quick research will now available to Nerds as may be desired.
Ent has pre-ordered.

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

This is great news! I was just talking lately with Amaniel, Elbereth and Fingon about how HoME is so hard to access.

 

[Fingon_Findekáno]

That is great news, indeed! Now if only I had a Kindle...

At least you are kind enough to share interesting finds from HoME as you come across them, Maedhros!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Are paperback copies difficult to find? 😳

 

[Ent]

HoME is so hard to access.

All 12 volumes are now available in Kindle format for use on any tablet, computer, etc. Very nice.
(So are many, many other of the important works.)

 

[Ent]

Are paperback copies difficult to find?

Let me research a little... a bit later today.

 

[Ent]

Now if only I had a Kindle...

Any Samsung tablet, iPad, etc. will run them, allow searches, etc. Computers too... which is where the fastest work can be done (with multiple screens, especially). Just download the Kindle app.

 

[Fingon_Findekáno]

Any Samsung tablet, iPad, etc. will run them, allow searches, etc. Computers too... which is where the fastest work can be done (with multiple screens, especially). Just download the Kindle app.

Oh, it’s just an app? I always thought Kindle was a device, a tablet of its own. I may very well have to check it out, then! Though, as convenient as it is to have these books digital, and I’ve read many in such a format before, nothing beats the feel of a real book in your hands, and flipping through the pages. But I digress...

 

[Ent]

feel of a real book in your hands, and flipping through the pages. But I digress...

Agreement...! Each, however, has its place. For 'reading' - even deep 'thinking' reading - give Ent a tree-based product... (hopefully made from one already dead, or perhaps recycled.) For research, give Ent digital..!

Yes, the app is a free app. the books themselves, however, are not of course.

 

[Elthir]

Are paperback copies difficult to find? 😳

This might depend upon where you're looking.

Mine are not shy, and are rather easily found on bookshelves. But that's just my experience, of course.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Hardbacks are floating around too -- or were.

Maybe I'm just old.

Maybe. 😄

 

[Ent]

Are paperback copies difficult to find? 😳

Sir SeS - No, they are not at all difficult to find.
They range from about $65.00 to $500.00 used. (not kidding. common prices $100 - $135. hardbacks same.)
Thus Ent sees an $11.99 digital copy as a real steal at this time.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I saw an Amazon listing for Volume 10 at about $12 for a paperback.

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

I have the hardcover bookset combined into 3 volumes, and I think it cost about $150ish? I wish more libraries had HoME because it's not exactly cheap, and the price is a barrier to some.

 

[Ent]

an Amazon listing for Volume 10

wow, Ent was just there and missed it. It was showing as $69.xx from another vendor 'used' when he looked. (insert frown.)

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I'd recommend monitoring sale sites like ebay, though it's admittedly time-consuming to keep checking. Also used bookstores, donation stores like Goodwill, library sales, flea markets, and yard sales -- those last two can be more hobby, I confess. 😄

My hardcover 12 (and maybe 11) were gifts, but the rest came from used bookstores. For instance, I found I, II, IV, and V at a bookstore in Madison Wisconsin for $35 for the set. And a store in Frederick Maryland had stacks of Volume III. This was in the 90s, but copies are still out there, so don't give up.

 

[Ent]

"The fun is in the hunt." (Sherlock Holmes).

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

This is great news! I was just talking lately with Amaniel, Elbereth and Fingon about how HoME is so hard to access.

I can't even find any copies in English here,and it has yet to be translated

 

[Olorgando]

I can't even find any copies in English here,and it has yet to be translated

Checking the German Wikipedia, the situation hasn't changed for years if not decades.
"The Book of Lost Tales" volumes 1 and 2 were translated, but they threw in the towel with "The Lays of Beleriand". Poetry is between fiendishly difficult and impossible to translate.

 

[Ent]

Into Ent's digital library this morning. Now all HoME'd up digitally as well as in dead tree version.