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Dusk writes a very sad tale, with bonus shapeshifting WTFery:
Horror of horrors my computer gets a HUGE fucking virus, causing me to have
to re configure my computer. and in the process lose ALL of my Ebooks. I was
reading this one and i had only gotten a little into it but what i had read
should be enough for SOMEONE to identify it (having spent the last five
hours trying to find this books name I’m desperate) I can’t remember all
the characters names but here is what i know –It’s a M/M/F Erotic romance number where the two guy also are into each
other.The chick is a witch who works sex magic (i think she calls it red magic)
and she’s in love/mated to a Lion shape shifter called (if I’m not
horrible mistaken) Jude (or something to that effect) Well Jude (or whatever
his name is) goes off for a walk ends up shifting and killing a dog or two,
this gets the attention of some of the neighbours (also in this universe
everybody is aware of Shape shifters and the like) and the police send a guy
(can’t remember his name for the life of me) who is a Coyote shape shifter
on this stuff called “Drozz” which suppresses his animal side, and he ends
up in the witch and Jude’s head and out of it and seeing it in third person
(not really sure how its explained) while they are having sex, and somehow
he gets pulled either inside the house itself or inside the wards that she
had put up around the house…Later(after a nice WTF are you doing in my house, and why do i want to screw
you scene) Jude goes out for another walk and gets kidnapped and Witch
thinks that the coyote dude had something to do with it and is all pissed at
him while he’s having a crisis over his sexuality and so she calls him
telepathically and he comes which means that he didn’t have anything to do
with it..they end up kissing and he decides to not use “Drozz” anymore –
and then my computer crashes.. Followed by lots of screams of “NO!” and
“(Insert favorite colorful metaphor)”
At least when your bookshelf falls over, you can put them back on the shelf with only a few creases. But hard drive crashes – oh, I shudder. May I recommend Get Dropbox? A good place to store all your ebooks.
Anyone recognize this book?
is it
Lions’ Pride By: Teresa Noelle Roberts
Oh Sarah, Sarah, Sarah … The hard lesson of learning the cardinal rule of “back-up, back-up, back-up” … it beats tearing out your hair, pounding your head against the desk, or throwing your computer out the window. Goddess – I have been there! Sending electronic sympathy.
Lisa has it right, this is Lion’s Pride. Would you believe I’m rereading it right at the moment?
Oh man. I think if something like that happened to me, I’d die. This is why external hard drives are handy. Dusk, I feel your pain!
On a lighter note, who keeps letting this Jude guy go out for walks? Don’t they notice that something bad happens every time?
I’d also recommend mozy.com for free, easy online back up. Dropbox is easier if you’re switching between multiple computers, though.
I have a button I keep around for times like this.
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
spamword: Because65. Forget the 65. Just…because
Lisa’s right 🙂 i am forever, eternally, rest of my mortal life, till the end of the world, (get the picture?) greatful to you.
I don’t know why she keeps letting him out for walks, personally i’d put a leash on him.
Yikes, sympathies about the crash, Dusk! I have a few hundred ebooks now at this point and I’d be crushed if I lost them all. Time Machine is good for backing them up to our external server but now I think I feel the urge to copy them all out to my thumb drive again!
My backup method is threefold.
Backup to a USB memory stick
Backup to an external HD
Backup to an online backup service
Then on occasion (every month or so) I archive this to DVD and take it and keep a copy ‘off site’ at my office.
Probably a little extreme, but I lost files once long ago and don’t wish to do so again. Some retailers allow you to re-download stuff, but it’s no guarantee you’ll be able to. Some have gone out of business and others have ‘lost’ books due to pubs and/or distros pulling them.
Meanwhile, anyone else have “Hey Jude” running through their heads right now?
Im listening to it now actually..
lol
spamword – gettting95.. 95 what?? what? What!
Hey, Dusk, shoot me an email through my site or at eliselogan12 AT gmail.com and I’ll shoot you an ebook of your choice of my backlist (on the site). Let me know what you want and I’ll send you a .pdf.
Hard drive crashes bite.
This is the greatest sentence ever. Is this a major plot point or is it just mentioned in passing?
AllyJS, I was wondering the same… maybe that’s what they call “green energies”? In which case I’m going ecofriendly right now!
Dammit. Now I want to read this. 😉
become78? Thanks SPAM. I’m already 48, why would I want to age 30 years?
Hey Dusk – losing all your books totally sucks. I feel your pain! Email me at info (at) kristenpainter (dot) com and I’ll send you copies of both books I have out right now.
I tell ya what, after Katrina when my Dad’s side of the family lost everything in Biloxi, I learned never to leave backups to anything in the same residence. Off site back up is the key. I have can have CD’s and USB storage galore but if my house floats away for burns down they’re all gone along with everything else.
All my family photos, music, videos and documents are backed up on disc but kept at my sisters place. I figure if my house blows up hers is probably gonna be ok. :0)
Geez, Kristina—I never thought of this, and it seems duh-ingly simple. I’ll be leaving an extra USB in various unspecified locations from now on.
(Um, what exactly is a “crask”?)
Have sex, save the world. I could get behind that.
I’d add my voice to those who chant “Back up, back up…”
I have an e-library with well over 1,000 books. I call it “The Great Library (south) of Alexandria (Virginia).” I could actually say there are over 5,000 books, but only just over 1,000 titles. Nearly every book is in HTML, MSReader (Lit), Mobi, RTF, and palm eReader (PDB) formats. Some are also in Adobe PDF. There’s also a smattering of ePub.
The thing is, there is a copy on the hard drive. There’s a copy on a 1,000 Gb portable hard drive that plugs in by USB. And there’s a copy on a 16 Gb thumb drive. I don’t just do this with eBooks, I do it with all my important files. I have a dozen thumb drives, and I also burn CDs. I learned the hard way, years ago.
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Scrin, I love you forever for bringing that button into my life.
I have recently started reading e-books on my computer, and unfortunately my computer sucks, causing me to order a replacement. I was wondering if I would have to re-order my e-books or if there is some kind of re-download option. or maybe a way to save them to something that isn’t my computer. any help would be appreciated.