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CL's avatar

At this point, I have no doubt you will over deliver in due time given your quality standards. The value at 67 cents per ebook seem incredibly reasonable. The real question is can I read 150 books!

Shimshon's avatar

By your omission of the classic Hugo nominated Space Raptor Butt Invasion from the list of excluded works, I look forward to being able to download a DRM-free epub. I personally voted for that work. You are kind.

This is an incredible development. May you succeed and prosper.

Faith in God's avatar

I'm not interested because I prefer audiobooks. If the collection were available in audiobook format I would likely subscribe.

Castalia Library's avatar

Fair enough. Perhaps one day we'll develop a technology for that.

Tut's avatar

I’m in.

Codex redux's avatar

Looking forward to the opportunity to spend my next cover payment here!

Viva Castalia!

keruru's avatar

I have a paid subscription and I want as many as possible.

Green36's avatar

Will probably need to wait a month before joining, but only need the 150 to consider it worth it.

150 quality books are better than a ton of garbage you have to sift through to find something decent. This feels like borrowing from a well-read relative's library. Thanks for the good work!

Lentus Amor's avatar

Now that KU is K+, will CU become C+? (But, surely, it deserves a higher grade than that!)

Ominous Cowherd's avatar

I'm interested in the books, but probably not as ebooks.

Jimmy_w's avatar

If the native-language edition is in the public domain, it would be nice to have a copy of that along with the translation. But current content is good as is.

RHEL's avatar

Still requesting a subscription or one time or recurring option for full access for a private archive. 4 books a month is far less than me 'buying' what you've already released on Amazon 5 days a week.

Castalia Library's avatar

We will have multiple options up to 65 books per month.

RHEL's avatar

Excellent. I'll work with what you can provide.

Inno Van's avatar

Recommendations on software to read these out loud? Having them narrated at 2x speed in the car speakers during my commute is my only hope of keeping up with this output.

Also, does anyone have any links to the Dark Lord covering how he can read so fast and systems and techniques he's recommended for faster reading? I thought I was a fast reader, but it turns out I'm just junior league and in need of improvement if I'm to keep up.

Justin's avatar

I’d subscribe based on this sentence alone, lmao

“unlike that other nominally unlimited site where your access to that five-million-book catalog of My Dead Billionaire Boyfriend, Gay Vampire Raptors in Space, and My D&D Elf Harem is capped at 20 ebooks”

Eric R. Ashley's avatar

500000 plus. I am an inveterate KU reader.

I'd enjoy having the chance to put fifteen some novels on it. Before you say Arkhaven, I've tried and tried. And I could say 'it's me' as I'm bad at tech, but my firstborn is a good programmer and he can't make it work either. A new downloadable method for putting IN books would be great.

Jim Strasma's avatar

I find it difficult now to get books from Gutenberg onto my Kindle Paperwhite, so would be happy to see those included as well, so long as they are easy to use on a Kindle. I only want Ebooks, due to limited physical space for books, and expected future need for larger print or audio. Ability to make backups on Calibre is also important. It would also be great to see you publish important Ebooks that Amazon won't.

Jimmy_w's avatar

The BN Nook reader usually works with local epubs.

P. Glenrothes's avatar

Print books are the superior format for reading. I wonder if E-book readers understand the long term effect on their eyes?

I would rather wait years and years for the hard copy.

Castalia Library's avatar

Then wait. We've already published some of these translated works. We're publishing three more today. Have you actually bought any of them?

Why do you insist on saying the same thing every time?

P. Glenrothes's avatar

After I receive Silenziosa papperback, Midnight's War, NS 1-6, signed Guns of Mars, and Everlasting Man, I will go away forever, promise. Until then ...

RHEL's avatar

What part of never translated are people like you missing? We can either preserve cultural history, or watch it literally burn as AI corps deliberately destroy all physical copies while you wait for the four hardback books Castalia releases once a year.