Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is, in many (if not all respects), one of the greatest stories ever written. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.“Is everything sad going to come untrue?” Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. This 54-page book, a 2.5 MB download, is just $6 of your hard-earned but well-spent money. It uses a powerful and straightforward rule set that can easily be adapted to other settings as well. The Undying Lands is a complete RPG, including character creation, magic, combat, a description of the world of faerie, and scores of plot seeds. After all, the old tales say that’s their most dangerous power: those who meet them may never want to leave. Getting them back out will be the hard part. Getting your characters into the Undying Lands is easy. Just don’t expect them to live again when you clap your hands. Here are the goblins and trolls, the ogres and pixies, and yes, even tinkerbell-like faeries who fly around on glittering wings. Here are the fae described in the old tales, the sidhe whose beauty surpasses all knowledge, the niskies who live in the streams and oceans, the wee folk who live in tiny cottages. A faerie-land, though not in the way most people today think of it. The Undying Lands takes ordinary, everyday people and puts them into a fantasy world. Even children smart enough to leave a trail disappear if they wander into the woods. These stories weren’t told to children to amuse them they were told to terrify them and teach harsh lessons. In the original stories, the witch eats Hansel and Gretl, Snow White’s Prince Charming was definitely a necrophiliac, and Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother certainly does not hop out of the wolf after the woodchopper kills it with his axe. Stories of fairies granting wishes, doing our housework, or replacing teeth with coins are modern sugar-coated versions. Most of us today know that the “fairy tales” we were told as children are watered-down, G-rated versions of the originals.
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