Review Roundup: July 27th-August 7th · 6:11pm Aug 7th, 2015
Time for your twice-a-month roundup! As an early heads-up, the next roundup will be a few days late, coinciding with my return from the vacation I leave on bright and early tomorrow. Plenty of good stuff in the interim, though, as you'll either find out on Monday (if you go check the blog then) or in two weeks (if you wait for the next roundup post over here). Without further adieu, here's what I've reviewed since I last posted a FiMFic blog:
Monday, July 27, 2015: Fandom Classics Part 119: The Monster in the Twilight
A review of Georg's sprawling AU tale of a world where Twilight's entrance exam for Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns went horribly, horribly wrong.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015: Fandom Classics Part 120: Tyrant
A review of PaulAsaran's short story response to the "Tyrant Sparkle" trope.
Friday, July 31, 2015: Mini-Reviews Round 92
Short reviews of Dixie, by heptaPon, The Fallacy of Epiphany, by RazgrizS57, and Starshine Lilies, by Starlight Shadow
Monday, August 3, 2015: Fandom Classics Part 121: I'd Do Her
A review of Fire Gazer the Alchemist's raunchy comedy/revenge fic about Rainbow Dash being a little too loose-lipped.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015: Mini-Reviews Round 93
Short reviews of Politics By Other Means, by totallynotabrony, Yaks Not Ponies, by Metool Bard, Declaring War? Really?, by Tawny Flower, and Yaks Are Jerks, by Avox
Friday, August 7, 2015: Another Story In Which Chris Played an Ancillary Role
Jetfire's Besides the Will of Evil is a story I've been pre-reading for the author for most of its run, and it's now officially finished. If you've been waiting for that depressing yellow incomplete tag to go away... well, it's gone!
What sort of e-reader are you using as mentioned in the Monster review? If it's just a browser on a tablet I have a fairly easy trick that makes footnotes reasonably usable. If it's something like a Kindle then it doesn't apply. The real key is whether it's a browser with back and forward buttons.
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It's a kindle, unfortunately. I mean, it's got a great display and has held up extremely well to everyday use, but it doesn't handle any thing that requires frequent flipping very well, at least in my experience.
3302578 Yeah, I had a feeling that might be the case.
Do you have any experience with e-books that properly have footnotes as opposed to endnotes? I'm wondering if stories of that sort would be more readable on a Kindle if the notes were actually at the bottom of the page as opposed to the chapter.
There's a story or two I can think of on the site that just immediately put the notes in the chapter under the paragraph that they are associated with, and at the very least it makes them accessible with a minimum of jumping around.
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I've got no experience with proper footnotes, I'm afraid, though I believe Amazon can support it... but only through stuff you buy from them, and not anything you get via a third party like Gutenberg or FiMFic
The Celestia Code was the first story I read that used the "note at the end of the paragraph" format, and I thought it worked well. In fact, one of the guest posts going up the in my absence uses that format, too!
Thanks for the review.