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u/Njitram2000

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▲ 20 r/Illumicrate

Bad glue binding

This is the first book I have from Illumicrate (Last Contract of Isako). There are a few pages that have the binding glue half a cm into the pages along the whole length. Other pages have blotches of glue that stick out. Pulling it apart is not an option. It just rips. You can see it on the sprayed edges too.

I'm wondering if this is a thing others have had before with Illumicrate or I just had bad luck? Or is this purely on the publisher (Orbit in this case) that they provided Illumicrate with a bad block? But then still, I'd like to know if I should expect less than ideal quality in general from their subscription.

u/Njitram2000 — 9 days ago
▲ 0 r/ENGLISH

"Center" and "meter" in England

I went to private school in England from 1998 to 2005. I'm from Belgium but I'd pretty much consider my primary language English now despite having moved back 20+ years ago.

I started reading a book by an English author and noticed the spelling of "centre". I'm fully familiar with the spelling differences between British English and US English (and their French origin) but I do not remember ever writing it as "centre" instead of "center". Same with meter. The teachers would definitely have penalised me for it if it were not accepted. Yet I do remember "fibre" and "theatre" and I still write almost exclusively with British spelling so these exceptions stand out to me.

Now, it has been 20+ years and the IT industry has slowly forced me to switch to "color" and such (which is definitely a sin in England) but I do wonder if some words like centre and metre were already abandoned back then and if they still are today.

And to be clear: I mean the colloquial usage as well as what is taught in schools, not the official rules.

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u/Njitram2000 — 26 days ago
▲ 11 r/thebrokenbindingsub

Of Blood and Fire Endless edition no longer listed on website

I wanted to check the specs of the book but I cannot access it. It is not in the Dragon's Hoard list either. Google still has the page indexed but visiting it goes to the homepage. If they stopped accepting more orders, it should still be listed but marked as "sold out", right?

Has anyone heard anything more since the update about the ghost edges and the paper quality?

Edit: I have a link via my order history but it ends up on a 404: https://thebrokenbindingsub.com/products/of-blood-and-fire-endless-edition?variant=45608202633413

u/Njitram2000 — 2 months ago