cross-posted from: c/ebookdeals @ Literature.cafe

Discover Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, the beloved comic fantasy universe that’s brimming with wit, wisdom, and wonder. Start where it all began in the seminal novel The Color of Magic, which follows the misadventures of the inept wizard Rincewind as he serves as tour guide to Twoflower, Discworld’s first-ever sightseer. The hapless duo’s journeys continue in The Light Fantastic and Sourcery, where the scale of world-threatening hazards (and accompanying absurdities) increase exponentially. You’ll get over 35 Discworld novels in all, touching all corners of this whimsical realm and all manner of its denizens, and you’ll help Room to Read with your purchase!

**The titles in this bundle are available through Kobo.com. To access the content, create or log in to your Kobo.com account.

This bundle is only available to those in the US.**

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Man I wish they were audio books.

Or that I had an hour a day to read.

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I don’t think there is a modern reading. The ones on Audible are pretty clearly ripped from cassette and kind of dodgy

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Oh man they’re probably the Tony Robinson versions then those are fucking amazing

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I thought the reading for Going Postal was pretty great.

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There is, Penguin Audio recently redid all the books with a mostly full cast. They are superior to the old ones, though the Tony Robinson ones hold a place in my heart.

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Quite a few of the books have been recorded as new audiobooks lately. Some of them are here:

https://linktr.ee/tiffanyaching

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Anyone done the work to figure out what books are missing from the set?

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Missing: 27. The Last Hero 40. Raising Steam 41. The Shepherd’s Crown

By series:

City Watch - Has All Witches - Has All Unseen University - Has All Death - Has All Industrial Revolution- Missing Raising Steam Gods Collection - Has All Young Readers - Missing Shepherds Crown

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A couple days late here, but: Shepherd’s Crown is actually part of the purchase. It doesn’t show on Humble, but it’s listed on Kobo when redeeming the code.

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Thank you! Helps me complete the collection

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Has anyone had any experience buying something like this outside the US? As in, if I use a VPN can I buy it and get the books?

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I used a VPN and was able to purchase the $1 tier via PayPal and redeem the books to my Kobo account. When I was redeeming the code, I had to manually set the webstore to the United States. The books were added to my main Kobo library alongside everything else I own in there.

However, and this isn’t a big deal for most, you will receive the American English ‘prints’. Terry was so quintessentially English, it feels uncomfortable reading ‘Color’ of Magic rather than ‘Colour’.

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it feels uncomfortable reading ‘Color’ of Magic rather than ‘Colour’.

That might be a deal breaker tbh, thanks for info!

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It’s fulfilled via kobo.com. My speculation is that it depends on if you have (or have access to) a US-based kobo account.

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How does Kobo work? Do you get to download files, or only access via some app?

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I just wanna mention for anyone out there who might need to hear this. It’s not immoral to acquire the books via other means if you can’t easily acquire them legally.

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Yeah I just bought it to throw cash at the estate. There’s DRM that will inevitably get in my way using it so I’ll just download it separately

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Darn, would have loved to pick this up!

Working on collecting their fancy edition of the books.

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