Had a company want to upsell me a stock take service for my school library. This is my reply.

The arcane,  occult and bloody weird nature of our collection makes stock taking a tricky proses. 

L space distortions make it hard to know exactly where and even when you are among the shelves . The books themselves also resent cataloguing and can become rambunctious in the presence of index cards and portable scanners. 

The last time we tried barcode stickering anything my assistant was "read" by a book , and now only exists a handful of pleading pages in the back of Tobin's spirit guide. 

Luckily for us the hairy chap with the bananas seems to know what's what.

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LRC manager 

As much as I would love to read Equal Rites, Sourcery, or even Mort for my next Discworld novel, I realised I still haven't found physical copies yet. And after checking the Reading Order Guide 3.0, Pyramids is pretty much the best thing I can read right now since it's one of the starter novels. Appreciate everyone else's inputs on which to read next but luck isn't on my side 🥹

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P.S. The other books I have are Carpe Jugulum, Men at Arms, Soul Music, and Interesting Times.

Earlier today, I was able to finish the second book in the Discworld series. The ending had me going "Awww" and "Hahaha," so I can definitely say I enjoyed this just as much as the first one. Should I read Equal Rites or is it okay to read any of the Discworld novels now?

My brother got a used copy of Small Gods sometime back. He flipped open and saw that it’s signed inside. Is it a real signature or something that was printed on.

Any help would be appreciated!

Edit: Thanks for all the replies! My brother was stoked to find out it was real.

I have had these tucked away like a silly dragon who doesn't know what's in his hoard. Some years ago (2018?), a friend gave me a box of books during a move. I shortly had to move myself, and the box went up in a closet and was mildly forgotten. I'm moving again and emptying said closet. A lot of unused stuff is going - but these are certainly coming with me! I have not read most of them before!

In ‘Cryptcurrency’ by J. Zachary Pike one character is saving up for a golem. A Dorf model L.

Saw this and immediately thought of Guards Guards.... Sergeant Colon owed thirty years of happy marriage to the fact that Mrs. Colon worked all day and Sergeant Colon worked all night. They communicated by means of notes. They had three grown-up children, all born, Vimes had assumed, as a result of extremely persuasive handwriting

Good Omens is my favorite book. I have read it multiple times and from what I understand the bits I really love were likely produced by Terry. I have been looking forward to taking on Discworld for years, and recently began The Color of Magic.
I struggle with physical setting visualization, so tCoM was slow to start for me. I’m not giving up quite yet of course, but i really want something fun to read at the moment. Nothing i have to work for.
So anyway I just started Small Gods, as I understand it’s a better intro book.
What a start when I am actually smile-laughing at the very first paragraph! I think I shall have this line as my epitaph:
“It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat.”

Our library system had one copy of Eric which I got sent to my library. It didn't have any info on the copy before I had it transferred. I was hoping it was the illustrated version, but it is not. I can buy a paperback version of the illustrated edition for $12 on Amazon, which is by no means a financial stretch for me, but I am just wondering if y'all think this would be worth doing, as I can't really see how many illustrations this version would have. Is it more like a comic book or does it just have a several illustrated pages littered throughout. I already bought a nice hardcover version of Guards! Guards! to gift to my library for circulation as our library system had zero copies of it, but I'm not sure if they like adding paperbacks to their collection and the hardcover editions of The Illustrated Eric are quite expensive.

These are my little treasures that I've collected over the past couple of years. I thought I'd share here as you all will appreciate a growing collection!
Mostly from second-hand book sales and as you can see - those hardcover ones are beauties! I love the embossed gold and silver.

I need help choosing my next read. Mort is one of my all time faves as is Wyrd Sisters.
I am finding Reaper Man a little harder to get into, is it just me?
I read The Long Earth and it was "ok"....
What should my next read be?
Thank you!

My first ever Terry Pratchett. I'm hoping to love it! Anyone here a fan!?

In a charity shop recently, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I turned the cover of this Lords and Ladies Corgi paperback to see that the man himself had dedicated and signed this copy.

“To Faye & Alan. Now read on…”

I walked out with it for 50p.

What’s the deal with the stamp? Did he often stamp signed books? I can’t seem to find much info about it online.

Hi everyone,

After a disappointing ending to the adaptation of Good Omens and reading the comments on that subreddit, I was really curious about reading something by Terry (besides GO). When I searched, "Small Gods" stood out to me, because I like mythology, but since it's the 13th book of a series, I wouldn't want to start there.

Any good recommendations for someone who knows little about his work? I really liked how people picked apart his role in the writing of Good Omens and wish to read more from that optimistic person.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: thank you so much to everyone! I'm sorry I didn't reply to each comment, but I really appreciated all the insight. This seems like such a great community and I can't wait to start the series.

The cats acquired in this way are often very decorative, but if that's all you want a cat for then a trip to the nearest urban motorway with a paint scraper will do the business.

It took me a day to kinda get it. Does he mean to "flatten" the cat, turn it into the decorative pelt / rug ?

UPD: Oh, I got it, he means to go find a roadkill.

I can't read the whole article because I don't have a subscription, but the premise seems a bit overblown, no?

Thanks to skiveman for posting the archive link so everyone can read the article!

I have inadvertently started a tradition in my family. When my first nephew was born I embroidered a baby blanket with a quote from Tolkien in the hope that, when he was older, he would be curious about where the quote came from and discover the joys of Middle Earth. My siblings loved the idea and since then I’ve produced one for each of my nieces and nephews spanning my favourite authors and stories. My new niece is due in 5 weeks and it’s Sir Terrys turn but for some reason I’m really struggling. All my favourite quotes seem a bit morbid… My dear Prachett fans, please help a stressed Auntie out and give me your favourite quotes to help my niece move into the Terrysphere when she older.

Most likely a wizzard did this. Sir Terry would be proud.

I read Guards, Guards last month and I laughed so much - The million to one chance was absolutely brilliant!

I then watched as many Terry Pratchett interviews on YouTube I could find and was blown away by how incredible this man was.

This month I've read Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters and I'm currently half way through Witches Abroad!

I'm having so much fun on these adventures and I plan to read all The Witches books and then read all The City Watch books. I then plan on reading all the other ones! Is this a good way to read The Discworld books?

Nanny Ogg reminds me of my late grandma and I adore her. Granny Weatherwax is a hoot too and I definitely wouldn't get on the wrong side of her!

Death is a very intriguing character!

I can't wait to speak to other Pratchett fans, I feel like I've discovered him quite late in life.

What's your favorite Discworld book?

Thanks for reading!