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Post by ashleybroomhall on Feb 10, 2006 4:56:52 GMT -5
With no new PDA's in sight i have been thinking that the BBC could be about to start reprinting the Old Virgin New Adventures. What do you think?
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Post by tractator on Feb 10, 2006 13:15:27 GMT -5
I hope so. A lot of the later titles are very hard to get hold of.
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Post by konczewski on Feb 10, 2006 22:57:52 GMT -5
Nope. I have a complete set already, thanks to eBay.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 6, 2006 4:01:38 GMT -5
It would be nice to see reprints of 'So Vile a Sin', 'Lungbarrow' & 'The Dying Days'. But I would say no to the whole range.
Beside, I've just bought a large batch of NA's on eBay, one guy selling 3 books in each batch. So I now have Cat's Cradle Trilogy - Blood Heat. I already have the Timewyrm Quartet & Lungbarrow.
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Post by neon on Mar 18, 2006 13:33:39 GMT -5
I love the Virgin Adventures but i don't really see the need of BBC reprinting them especially if people have full copies already. and besides, they are cheaper to get second hand from E-Bay.
Also on the Doctor Who website they have free E-Books of "The Dying Days" and "Human Nature" with updated covers, and for Free to be read by us fans!!!
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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 25, 2006 13:42:49 GMT -5
Can people really read entire books off of a computer monitor without doing themselves harm? Maybe the non-TV like monitors. I have almost all the DW NAs and have had the first few read onto tape, which i need because of an eye problem. the NAs are going to take so many years to get through that I'll never even get to the 8th doctor, i guess.
The last few NAs are being treated as extremely rare collector's items. L'barrow was $20, or more, i forget, at a dealer's room.
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Post by tractator on Mar 26, 2006 3:33:57 GMT -5
I saw Lungbarrow standing at £25 on e-bay and there were still a couple of days to go on that item.
With prices like that you can see why I'm quite keen on the idea of reprints being sold at £7 each...
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Post by neon on Mar 26, 2006 6:22:59 GMT -5
I saw Lungbarrow standing at £25 on e-bay and there were still a couple of days to go on that item. With prices like that you can see why I'm quite keen on the idea of reprints being sold at £7 each... Or you could go to this link: www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/lungbarrow/text.shtmland print out the entire novel plus extras (but you will need loads of printing paper, and maybe a new ink cartridge! Although i do like the idea of the BBC having E-Books i prefer to read a story in novel form  |
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Post by tractator on Mar 26, 2006 11:49:10 GMT -5
Dunno. I turn mine into word documents and transfer them to a multimedia PDA with an LCD colour screen. Maybe you could consider something like that? I suppose it would depend on the nature of your eye problem.
Alternatively you could use a text reader that will 'vocalize' the text for you. It might sound a bit mechanical but at least you would get to 'read' the book without aggravating your condition. (XP has one: Its called 'Narrator' and is in the 'accessibility' part of your Accessories.)
Hope this helps.
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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 27, 2006 0:41:27 GMT -5
thanks! i don't know why Turlough had so much trouble saying your name. It's a perfectly good name.
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Post by neon on Mar 28, 2006 7:45:09 GMT -5
They should do some audio tapes of Doctor Who Novels for people with reading/ eye problems.
Hell if they had an all star cast and the Actors who played the Doctors in the Audio novels I'd get them ;D
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Post by davisonera on Apr 15, 2006 8:17:46 GMT -5
No. Why buy the NAs. Most of them are rubbish.
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 29, 2006 13:41:58 GMT -5
I'd like to see rereleases of the NAs but I doubt the Beeb are interested, they'd probably rather sell their own merchandise.
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 7, 2006 4:07:34 GMT -5
I have enlarged print and dark backgrounds and colors that help, through accessibilty features. It's not large enough and I've decided recently that a certain amount of the bad neurological effects I experience come from the radiation from the monitor. There is just some weird-a$$ electric feeling that can't be accounted for by the muscle cramping caused by the size of the print. It happens to people without the focusing problem, too.
I forget why those synthetic voices are hard to use, but one problem is that as much as I tried to deny it, the reading does matter, and not having a real human speaking with some genuine expression makes a big difference. I swear I'm not fussy.
Just letting you in on the parameters of my twisted little weird neurological world.
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Post by delltechdude on Jul 5, 2006 16:27:44 GMT -5
reprint them puppies! aside from many of em being ungodly expensive and hard to find, its an era that had NO who material aside from that and the magazine to give us fans our who fix  . I remember finding Blood Heat and going wow, and after that hunted down many other stories. With so much out there, its a shame that they arent more readily available. |
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. I remember finding Blood Heat and going wow, and after that hunted down many other stories. With so much out there, its a shame that they arent more readily available.