WheelOfTime
News
2024-01-25
When we reach 1000 members or so, we will hold a referendum on whether to continue allowing posts related to all WoT media or to restrict posts to written media. All media will always be allowed in the comments.
Rules
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All posts must be directly related to The Wheel of Time.
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Mark spoilers according to what OP requests (books, TV show, or any other media).
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No real-world politics or religion, unless it is directly related to a piece of WoT media. No praising or criticizing real-world politicians or parties.
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No drama posts. No posting ban messages from subreddits or anything like that.
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Censor names/usernames in screenshots, except when the person is a public figure, when the screenshot is of this community, or when the uncensored person is yourself.
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No brigading, incitement to brigading, or harassing others. No nudity or violent imagery. No threats of or calls to violence. No spam.
Affiliated Sites
The Band of the Red Hand (Discord)
Related, Unaffiliated Sites
Defenders of the Dragon (Facebook)
Resources
Wheel of Timelines - Map of characters' movements during the series.
Dragonmount - Hosts copies of some WoT materials, including an archive of Robert Jordan's blog.
Theoryland - Includes repository of most WoT-related Q&As and interviews
wot-notes - Contains summaries and excerpts from Robert Jordan's notes
Wheel of Time Quiz (Discord) - Hosts a weekly trivia quiz
WoT Compendium (iOS) - Companion app for WoT reads
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The visual you're posting is one of the few things I miss about paper books. In one picture you're communicating your preferences and experiences, and I know a dozen conversations I could have with you from our shared experiences in the stories we've read.
I've found ebooks are a much better fit for my lifestyle, and their many benefits, the cost of which is I can't share one picture with you the way you did for us here.
I feel this in my bones. I'm surrounded by friends with large libraries but I cannot give up so much space when I mostly read digitally. Nobody casually browses someone elses elibrary.
How will society evolve with this? Casting your eyes across someone's bookshelves has served us well as a social mechanism for a number of things since the widespread adoption of the Gutenberg press. With the absence of these book shelves, what will fill in those social vacuums or will we just go without?
I do not have an account there, but if I understand what it is then maybe things like goodreads for books or letterboxd for movies. These don't allow for that casual thing though that you described, where someone unintentionally makes those connections. I think the sincerity of connections are more palpable when it is someones bookshelf. I hope I am not alone in looking away from ads in the world or pausing audio when skipping isn't an option. I would never look away from someones bookshelf though, because I assume if it is on their shelf then it speaks to them. Sincerity probably cannot be made up elsewhere. I'm thinking we may just go without and that makes me sad.
By "there" do you mean Project Gutenberg or something like that? u/partial_accumen wasn't referring to any particular site, but the physical invention that made books mass-produceable and precipitated the proliferation of books (and, therefore, literacy) to the common man.