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In Magic Slays >!the Lighthouse Keepers, steal one magic eater, and construct an even larger one. In the investigation of the initial missing eater, Kate and Andrea are told that it's most certainly not man portable, although I don't think that any actual numbers are quoted. At the climactic ending, the Keepers set up the large device in the old control tower. And I think that we can be relatively confident that the staircase that Kate and friends fight their way up is the only access to the tower room where the device is set up. Now, maybe I'm visualizing the wrong increase in size that the bigger device required than was actually the case. But even that doesn't change how hard they had to work to MOVE that weight up a switched back staircase. I worked as a mover for 15 years, and in that time I was involved in many moves where the destination was the upper floor of a building with no elevator. Moving anything of size was no picnic. But when you combine size AND weight, the difficulty level rises rapidly. So, they're not humping it up bare handed, some sort of hand truck is involved. It gets complicated now. There's only enough room for two people to have their hands on the handles of the hand truck, they're basically facing backwards looking down the stairs, each grasping a handle, and the amount of pulling force they can contribute to moving the (heavy) device is minimal. Generally the uphill side on a stair move has a about a third of the weight, and the guys on the bottom are doing the heavy lifting of the other two thirds. Since the downhill side don't need handles, you have enough room to get three men there. Any more than that hampers the amount of power that can be applied. On the uphill side there may only be room for two guys on the handles, but you can tie ropes to the handles and add more bodies. Four is about right. And they can face upwards. The upward lifting force is raised. So, nine guys, with seven doing the majority of the work. But don't forget the switch backs. Everytime you get to a landing the four guys on top drop out through lack of room. The guys on the bottom start hating life. Making the turn isn't easy either. The hand truck needs tilted back and with the tilt, the load is a lot longer, the turn needs to start when the wheels are two steps down, awkward doesn't begin to describe it. In the meantime the actual bodies are getting TIRED. Easy, switch them out for fresh guys. Well, hopefully someone thought ahead and has half the available bodies upstairs, because NO ONE is able to get around the device.!< Okay, this whole thing isn't a rant, or me trying to say it couldn't be done, obviously they did, but the Keepers had to really WORK for the commanding position afforded by getting the height needed to increase the range. And they don't even have the comfort knowing that it was worth it. They lost after all. I kind of doubt that HA were really aware of the logistics of the process of getting that thing up there. Our fictional bad guys were hating life, and if they could, hating HA 😫😫😫!<

So I was googling a KD question, and one of those "People also ask..." popped up regarding Innkeeper. Was it done yet? Answer to a duh question was a duh answer. But the last part caught my eye. A list of the Innkeeper books to date, and the working title (presumably) of book 6 (Sweep of the Tide) Wikipedia was listed as the source. The information was obviously out of date as it had a possible release date of 2025 - 2026.

This was interesting to me, new information as it were. I'm pretty tight with the blog, and have been for years. But I have missed some here and there. So, was it a blog drop? Or was it Facebook? I really hate that so many of my authors are using Facebook as a default information drop. The big problem is that Facebook has joined the dark side and put an AI administrator bot in charge of account banning decisions. Long story short, access was denied to me (in the account creation phase no less) Overall a boon, but in terms of getting updates from various authors or other people of interest, a very annoying road block.

So, was this Sweep of the Tides thing me missing the blog? (Oops, my bad) Or was it the fault of the AI lunatic that has taken over the Facebook asylum? Thank you so MUCH Mr (penny pincher) Zuckerberg.

And yes, I'm very well aware that HA have a strict policy in place of only announcing books that are finished and have a solid release date. And that they are still working on Maggie 2. And that there are several projects in the "To Do" list. This post was more in the nature of things that I ponder at night before I fall asleep. What can I say? Counting sheep has never worked for me.

Ptience is as p*tience does.

On the Library page, (Home - Library - Discover - Profile) when you're on the Listen tab (Listen - Audiobooks - Lists) there is a display that has the top 3 books that you are currently listening to. (With an arrow to a different page that has the complete "Listen list. Below that a display that shows the last 3 books you bought. Again with an arrow taking you to a list of the last 10 books you bought. Below that is a display of books on your wishlist. That is as far down as my display scrolls. What I can't scroll to are 4 short cut buttons, the first button is a short cut to the currently downloaded books. The next is a short cut to the lists page. I don't recall what the last 2 are.

Before we get all excited, my app has the most current update 26.23.03 The tablets are Android. All 3 of my tablets are having the exact same problem. I cleared my cache, signed out and back in. Did a restart on the tablet. Force updated it. Uninstalled, and reinstalled it (I really hate doing that) but in the interest of trying all the standard "fixes" I did it. None of those "fixes" worked. This problem is similar to the problem that affected the series list, last month, where scrolling locked up and couldn't scroll the lower two thirds of the series page.

Anyone else with the same problem? Should I just assume that this is an glitch brought on by a buggy update? This post is also directed at the audible help team that lurks on this page. If this problem doesn't clear up, i will try calling the customer service number and reporting this issue directly. Any input would be appreciated.

When Elias and Leo are going over London's actions in the breach, and the ensuing loss of the entire assault and mining teams Elias wants another confirmation that everyone was dead. And London states adamantly that >! "... the miners, the canine, and the scout were all dead." And then adds"I saw the DEBRA cut to pieces"!<

>!Was this wishful thinking on his part? Did he think that given the Gress' effectiveness and ferocity up to the point that he threw his grenade, that that left the outcome without question? When he threw his grenade, several miners, and Ada were still on their feet, desperately trying to join him in escape. He had to know that detonating a grenade at their feet would leave their cause of death to obviously have been caused by being swept away by the force of the grenade's blast wave. And NOT have been killed by the gress attack!<

>!He also knows he's going to be included in the recovery party. Does he not know that one of the healer's gifts is being able to determine the cause of death? And that he's never wrong? What's his big plan? Is he going to stand still when they excavate the collapse to the mining site and act like a cockroach 🪳 in the kitchen when the light comes on? "Maybe if I don't move, they won't see me" Not very smart.!<

According to Robert Heinlein, one of the most effective ways to lie, is to tell the the right amount of truth at the right time - and then shut up. London is obviously counting on dumb luck to see him through the consequences of his actions. And that's just dumb.

We find out as the story unfolds that the >!breach is looked upon as an assault. An attack on humankind. And yes, the negative aspects of a breach opening can most certainly be seen as opening an avenue to allow horrible, powerful monsters to attack our world. Adaline gets a positive confirmation on this, through her mother's gift. Her mother's world eventually succumbed to the attacks after 1000 years of fighting!<

>!So, there's definitely an enemy. And their chosen weapon to attack is giving monsters access to their target through the means of the breach. But here's the thing. That implies that the breach is controlled by the attacker. It's the enemy's tool to be used to attain his ends There really shouldn't be any advantages given to the attacked.!<

The first thing that kinds of lessens the effectiveness of their chosen means of attack >!is the apparent side effects that the breach has given to humanity. All of the gifts that have increased the chances that humanity can throw back the attacker. A standard, non gifted human is far more likely to be killed by an attacking monster, than an enhanced one!<

And then, there's the >!new minerals, and botanical elements that have improved human weapons and their deadliness. Not to mention the gift that enables them to even FIND those handy new additions to our toolbox. Okay, so maybe these aspects of the breaches is some side effect that isn't under enemy control. And it's hard to argue against success. After all, they've fought, and won against every one of their other victims But let's leave that aspect of breach side effects aside. I didn't notice this little detail until my 3rd reread. My first few times through, I was wondering how humanity had figured out the secret of destroying the anchor ⚓ to collapse the breach? But there's this little mention near the end, when talking about how there had been only unsuccessful attempts to explore the other side of the breach. And almost unnoticeable, the mention of this little detail "... the first party to find the other end of the breach had an OVERWHELMING URGE to destroy (what turned out to be the anchor)"!<

So I imagined that something like this happened. >!I can't help myself. This thing needs to be destroyed! So they bust this "thing" (whatever it is) and head back to our side of the breach, having been unable to do anything effective on the far end of the breach. And sometime after they return the breach collapses. How long it takes afterwards to connect the destroying of that "thing" and the collapse of a breach, was hopefully a short time.!<

So, once again>!our enemy's only means to attack us, also gifts us with the knowledge of how to hinder and limit his chosen attack route. So far, this breach thing seems to be more of an advantage for us than them.!<

This leads me to speculate on just what we might find out in book 2. There's obviously way more going with the breaches than what we've been shown so far. >!Could there be a third unknown who is (probably) secretly helping us, and hindering the Tsuun? Could this mysterious third party have only recently decided to throw a wrench 🔧 in the works of the Tsuun? Too late to help Ada's mother's people, and the other victims of the Tsunn's aggression? But maybe, just maybe allowing the victims to maybe becoming the victor?!<

Time (and p*tience) will tell!

So in Magic Bleeds Kate needs to >!bail Andrea out of jail, and she brings in this rare, magic enhanced rapier and uses it to bribe the sheriff to forget about Raphael and Andrea's charges. The sword was Greg's, very rare and worth a lot of money. I always felt bad for Kate for using the sword ⚔️ in that way, but acknowledged that that's what good friends do for each other.!< It didn't really occur to me until today's reread that it was actually a GOOD thing that she did this. >!Later on in the book Erra totally trashes Kate's apartment, including all of the weapons that belonged to Greg. So, as it turns out, by giving the sword away to a good home, with someone who will appreciate it, take care of it, AND Kate is able to get some worth out of it, that that was a very good thing. Greg would have wanted that sword (and his other keepsakes) going to someone who would take care of them, and luckily, right in the nick of time, that outcome (for the sword at least) actually happened!< So I no longer feel sad for Kate losing the >!sword.!< Now I only feel sad about all the rest of the memories that >!Erra!< trashed. I'm sure that Kate feels that they were just things, and that what is most important was that she was able to hide the fact that she had someone >!(Julie)!< who means more to her than all the belongings there that got ruined.

I have 3 identical tablets. Last night I was typing something and when my muscle memory hit delete I got a key press instead. So I looked and my keyboard had changed. 18 months ago when I bought the tablets I wasn't very happy with Gboard. My older tablets were Samsung and when I changed to Lenovo, the default was Gboard. Basically the Gboard (at the time) was missing 3 things. Shift keys on both sides. A cap lock. And cursor movement keys. The best language that I could get (that was CLOSE to what I wanted) was pc. 12 months ago, one keyboard changed and was exactly what I wanted. In the next few days the second and third tablet followed suit.

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The change last night seemed to be the old, stupid version. I checked for updates, nope, no updates. I uninstalled updates, and it was way worse. I spent an hour googling different variations on - "One keyboard changed, two hadn't" - "How/why?" _ "How can I fix this?" Naturally, the suggestions didn't apply, had already been done, or basically didn't/couldn't bring back my damn keyboard.

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I checked the about page. The "good" keyboard version is 17.5.7.917159154-release-arm64-v8a

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The "new" (sucky) version is

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That code string doesn't suggest, or tell me which is the "latest version" Was this some kind of glitchy rollback? I don't have any idea. Is there any place to go to to find this out? Can I download and install the "good: version from somewhere? Naturally, I went to the play store to disallow automatic updates, so hopefully whatever bug got in won't affect my other 2 tablets. One thing that MIGHT be relevant, is that all 3 tablets got an Android update. But that was 2 or 3 days ago. I had been using the tablets throughout the intervening days, and the change dropped out of the clear blue sky, and only on one of the three tablets.

I have 3 tablets. When I first got them 18 months ago i wasn't very fond of Gboard. 6 months later out of the clear blue sky they updated the keys added in some, changed the layout, and it was just about perfect. I've been using it for a year, muscle memory has programmed key locations, and yesterday when I hit delete, a key stroke was entered and I realized that the layout had changed. Sadly, it looked like it had reverted to the old stupid version. I spent the next hour checking for updates (none available) uninstalling updates (made it worse) Googling every variation of what happened? How do I fix it? Why did only one of 3 identical devices have this happen? Nothing helpful at all, or less than useless non applicable suggestions, or already tried suggestions. I finally went into the "About" section, the version number on the bad keyboard was different. IDK if those numbers are numerically arranged, but my "good" version numbers are 17.5.7.91715814 and the "bad" is 17.6.5.924672101 So obviously, there is the difference. Is there anyway to check that this represents an "upgrade" (a bs one) or a glitch? Is there some way to find and install the "good" version? One thing I DID do was set my update switch to "auto update - OFF" So that this doesn't affect my other 2 keyboards.

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Apologies, if this isn't the correct sub, or if this is a stupid question. I'm at my wits end, and stupid pissed off.

Listening to KD Magic Bites (maybe my 6th time) But this is the first time since I found this sub reddit. So, I bring this to you all. Maybe it's a rant, or maybe someone can point out something I missed. Or just commiserate with me. I noticed this before (like 5 times) >!After Kate's 2nd date with Crest, Curran ambushes Kate at her apartment, insults her and walks off. Kate goes back to her house and wakes in the morning to a severed head on a stick in her front yard. Jim comes out, he gets Doolittle and several shspe shifters out there, and they basically drag Kate to the keep. Somehow Curran and the council decide Crest is the Upir. Kate doesn't agree, but allows them to drag her to Crest's and then stick her with the bad guy role to explain why they're all there. Crest is not the upir snd everyone looks at Kate and blames her for the whole thing. Curran says straight out that Kate should avoid bringing her mistaken assumptions to him in the future!< Did I miss something there? Is this just some of the awkward first novel stuff that everyone hates about the first two books? (I'm not one of them) Should I just throw my hands in the air (as I usually do, with this part) and continue on to the rest of the story.? Maybe the collective wisdom on this subreddit has a theory?

Okay, here's the deal.i'm doing TKWNKM again and we're in the Dog Market. >!The serial killer's first victim is found tied to a pillar in a group of four pavilions. It's probably still early in the morning, but there has to have been traffic and activity in the market for hours. I've listened (and read) this part most carefully, and as far as I can tell, it's not explained just how this body can have gone unnoticed for whatever length of time that the market had already been open for, and then be "discovered" quite suddenly and in a place and position that displays the corpse to all and sundry, and not just to someone standing right next to it, but in view to a crowd 10? more? feet away. What did I miss? There is no mention that something had obscured it and that whatever it was had been suddenly whisked away revealing the shocking corpse. Something like "...the pavilions which aren't open until late morning are opened for the first show and..."Gasp" OMG! This is horrible!!< Am I an idiot? Did I skip over some detail in my haste to move forward in the story that sets the scene? As far as I can tell it just appeared out of the clear blue sky. I know I'm going to kick myself, and have to admit that I'm obviously a blind idiot to have missed something that clearly sets up this shocking scene, but there you have it. My mind's eye is not seeing something that explains this mystery to me. I admit it, I'm confused and could use some help in making this picture make sense.🤔🤔🤔

So, in Sweep of Peace (Inn Keeper 2) >!Dina is forced to grant a future favor to Nuan Cee for the use of his duplicator. Dina is not happy, but they really need the device. Later on in the book, he releases her from the obligation. In the next book, One Fell Sweep, Dina is once again forced to bargain a future favor to Coukie Cee for his help in dealing with some muck rats!<

Now, here's the thing. HA is probably going to be disinclined to let this interesting plot twist go unused into the darkness. Do any of you have any ideas on which story arc they will bring it forth again? We have a choice of Maud's wedding, or the finding of Dina's parents. I can see Dina trying to find the perfect wedding gift for Arland and Maud, having forgotten about the favor, and having that little detail bite her in the ass, while comic twists in the narrative ensue. Or, if it comes in the quest to find the parents, a more serious diversion from the hunt will complicate the primary mission of tracking the parents down.

So, serious or comical? Only HA knows for sure. But we can have some fun guessing. 0_0

So I was browsing my home page, and a post on r/romantasy caught my eye because the title had TKWNKM in it. The op and all 10 of the comments were not very thrilled with the book. I get it. Every book is not for everyone. People are different. It keeps life interesting. But what got me was that 7 of them were boggled by trying to keep track of ALL OF THE CHARACTERS. Info dumps were also complained about. Well I have read it 3 times (text, audio, text) so I'm not exactly unfamiliar with it. And for the life of me I can't in any way say that there were too many characters to track. It's gotten me thinking that on my next re read (audio) I'm going to concentrate on noting character names, just as a sanity check. Am I not paying enough attention to details like that, am I paying more attention to the story and not the people that are a part of the story.?

And then there's the info dump gripe. It's a brand new world 🌎 We've never been there before. So we need to find out more. Maggie is a brand new character, we need to meet her and learn what makes her tick. World building, and character development are critical and necessary in a situation like introducing a new series. I'm such a big fan of HA because of their expert touch in world building and character development. That they could come up with a world like Kate's (my first HA book) and build up the details of a very complex environment and the problems and challenges inherent in such a world while still capturing my interest in Kate and her story was the reason that HA rapidly became my favorite author. Are there other fantasy authors who are even more delicate and stealthy in their world building? Don't get me wrong, HA books aren't the only fantasy or sci fi that I've read. There have been some books/authors that I've read that aren't as skilled in it as HA, and many who are as good. But i would definitely have a hard time pointing out any that are better.

As of today (May 15th) The problem with the series list of only showing 30 series has finally been fixed. 😊

As recently as this morning (Thursday 5/14) my email was fine. This afternoon when I swiped down to see the rest of the message, the screen went black. This was on my Android tablet. With the Gmail app. I have 3 and the problem is the same on all 3. And on all 3 accounts registered. I tried the usual fixes, I cleared cache, and did a restart. Neither helped.

My research said this was a known problem probably caused by an update. They suggested trying access through a browser which would confirm an update problem if the problem was there. It wasn't. The next suggestion was to go to the Play store and uninstall the updates. That DID stop the problem. To double check, I updated the app, and after the updates were installed the problem was back.

There was another fix that is basically sidestepping the problem. Rotate the tablet from portrait to landscape. The problem isn't there. Once you scroll the message completely in landscape, you can rotate back to portrait and scroll with no problem. It's kind of irritating though.

I guess what I'm looking for is to find out if anyone else is having the problem. And if so, do you think that Google will become aware of this issue and fix it?

As recently as this morning (Thursday 5/15) my Gmail was fine. This afternoon I started having issues scrolling though the email body. This is on all 3 of my tablets. And is there on all three Gmail accounts that are registered.Opening the email everything is fine, when swiping down the screen goes black. I tried the standard fixes. I cleared cache, and restarted the tablet. Neither fixed it. My research informed me that this is a common glitch after a update. The first suggestion was to open Gmail in a browser to check if the problem was there, which would confirm it was an update problem. It wasn't there. The next suggestion was to go to the app store and select uninstall to uninstall updates. This fixed the issue. To double check, I updated the app and the issue came back.

There was another fix that sidesteps the issue. Rotate the tablet from portrait to landscape. You can scroll without issue. After scrolling the entire message you can rotate back to portrait and not have the problem.

My question is, is anyone else having this issue? This is in the nature of a additional confirmation and that Google would probably become aware of this and fix it.