Yay!  Another NZer!  I'd suggest that if you're really set on the bed-book experience you could print them out and take 'em with you.

I'm also a big "in bed" reader, but since Shadowmarch is going to be in installments and I *have* to get my reading fix everyday, I'll be reading other things and won't have to set up my computer right off my bed. (Although that may not be such a bad idea anyway.)  =)

hehe.  I got onto the site for the first time last night at 1:00am Atlantic Time, and I loaded all pertinent information and text onto my Cassiopeia Palm Computer, and took it to bed with me.

Hmmm... I guess I'm lucky in that , even though I like to lie down to read, I spend all day at my 'puter so I am terribly used to doing reading here. Come to think of it... I usually only spend an hour or two away from my computer. Does anyone else have this problem? I get up and go right to my 'puter, usually foresaking caffiene until I am in pain. Then after a brief break for tea, I come back, staying at my computer until I am faint from hunger. After I find food, I sit here untill I am nearly exhausted. Oh, I don't just sit there and stare at it! I do stuff with it! Isn't everyone this way?

Jendaiya

Unfortunately, I am that way as well.. Working as a SysAdmin (6+ years at an ISP, now at a geophysical company with their cluster) I have been on a computer with my coffee for the most part of the day throughout that time... It doesn't seem in immanent danger of change at this point either... It's a good thing I like my job :)

If I'm not reading, or cooking some food, I'm usually at a computer.  Work, webcomics, news, bulletin boards, irc, games, lesiure programming, etc, etc, it all adds up.  Although with summer here, and the BEAUTIFUL weather we've been having (ignoring the last few days, that is) I SHOULD be spending more time outside.  Ah well.

Uruloki, Jendaiya: yay! More Canadians!

Actually, I'm fairly suprised how many people there are on here which are non-USAians...

Jendaiya:  Really?  What island?  I used to live on Hornby Island, near Courtenay and Comox... Before that I lived on the Queen Charlottes (no sun there at all - only rain....) But as you can see, I've given in to the urge to move to the big city....

Ah, I keenly miss the island these days...  I can't even see the water from where I am now, and although the mountains of the north shore are visible, it's not the same when you're in the city.....

Waitasec.  We're supposed to be discussing being of two minds about Shadowmarch.

Well, I'm not of two minds at all - I really, really, really hope this works out - not only because it promises to be an excellent story, but because there has been no successful (commercially) attempts yet to do this kind of thing.  Stephan King tried to do a web-based novel or short story, I belive, but it seems to have faded into obscurity.  If Tad Williams can pull this off, hopefully we will see others following in his footsteps.