Free LEGO AFOL book (this week only!)

Link for US customers:
https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Tips-AFOL-Newbies-Hippie-ville-ebook/dp/B0GRRLJ128

(try searching hippie-ville in your localised Amazon store to find it in your country)

Thank-you Peter C, that's very generous of you. I've just downloaded it and already looking forward to reading!

@Brickbuilder0937 said:
"Interesting note on page three: "Generated with assistance from ChatGPT""

As long as it's just "assistance", I don't see the problem.
(and apparently it's only for the quiz?)

If it's clearly much more than just that, I doubt many people will make it past page 10 or so....

@WizardOfOss said:
" @Brickbuilder0937 said:
"Interesting note on page three: "Generated with assistance from ChatGPT""

As long as it's just "assistance", I don't see the problem.
(and apparently it's only for the quiz?)

If it's clearly much more than just that, I doubt many people will make it past page 10 or so...."

What kind of "assistance" are you imagining?

Just "bought" it. Is it possible to download it as an EPUB instead of PDF?

Somewhat related to his intro but there is always bad stuff going on in the world. It's best to dwell on what you can't control, 2019 was an amazing year for me.

@GuinnessPint said:
"Link for US customers:
https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Tips-AFOL-Newbies-Hippie-ville-ebook/dp/B0GRRLJ128

(try searching hippie-ville in your localised Amazon store to find it in your country) "

Thank you!

Canada as well;

https://www.amazon.ca/Hot-Tips-AFOL-Newbies-Hippie-ville-ebook/dp/B0GRRLJ128

@ra226 said:
" @Vindicare said:
" @Crux said:
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"

As long as you play well together."

Ahh, shoot! Can’t believe I missed that obvious one! Good looking out.

@Crasha said:
"Just "bought" it. Is it possible to download it as an EPUB instead of PDF?"

there are ebook converters free .mobi .doc .pdf ect to convert diffferent options, Calibre are others.
Not sure bout download... but easy to convert.

just started reading. Congrats for your book and many thanks for your generosity.From a 70 year old AFOL.

Not available for french amazon :/

@zedemimon said:
"Not available for french amazon :/"

This doesn't work?
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0GRRLJ128

I've only started reading it, but one thing has already surprised me: the section on the correct thing to call the bricks and the company that makes them. I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it "Leggo."

@TheOtherMike said:
"I've only started reading it, but one thing has already surprised me: the section on the correct thing to call the bricks and the company that makes them. I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it "Leggo.""

I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it like that either, but for some reason most English speakers do seem to pronounce it like that ;-)

@WizardOfOss said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"I've only started reading it, but one thing has already surprised me: the section on the correct thing to call the bricks and the company that makes them. I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it "Leggo.""

I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it like that either, but for some reason most English speakers do seem to pronounce it like that ;-)"

I mean, yeah, tyhat is how I pronounce it. Do you pronounce it like "Lay-go?"

@TheOtherMike said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"I've only started reading it, but one thing has already surprised me: the section on the correct thing to call the bricks and the company that makes them. I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it "Leggo.""

I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it like that either, but for some reason most English speakers do seem to pronounce it like that ;-)"

I mean, yeah, tyhat is how I pronounce it. Do you pronounce it like "Lay-go?""

Pretty much, maybe even more just "lago", similar to Winnebago? Though in proper Dutch fashion with a rather harsh "g". Even when I'm from the south of the country, known for our "soft g"...

There's even a (pretty old...) song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSChjspFCtk

I think in most European languages (apart from English) the "Le"-part is pronounced pretty much the same, most variation will be in the "g". To be fair, I'm not sure how the Danish pronounce that.

And thinking about it, isn't the "leh-go" pronunciation a bit weird to begin with? I mean, with no consonant after it in the syllable, wouldn't it make more sense to say something like "lee-go"? Or could it just be a matter of an overcorrected attempt to pronounce it correctly?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"I've only started reading it, but one thing has already surprised me: the section on the correct thing to call the bricks and the company that makes them. I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it "Leggo.""

I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it like that either, but for some reason most English speakers do seem to pronounce it like that ;-)"

I mean, yeah, tyhat is how I pronounce it. Do you pronounce it like "Lay-go?""

Lay-ggggggggggggow, pretty much. With the guttural 'g' that mostly sounds like a cat trying to dislodge a typewriter from its throat. Once you've got that down, maybe we can to work on "Van Gogh".

That's the better way to explain our g :-)
(though I guess you're from above the rivers?)

Don't teach them too well though, the moment they learn how to say "Scheveningen", we're screwed!

Retroactively surprised the pronunciation never came up for us all to argue about on my very pan-European Warcraft guild voice chat. Mind you I suppose as a bunch of mostly 18-21 year olds starting in 2008 with an entirely different extremely time-consuming hobby we were all collectively in our dark ages. (And the Mega sets sucked. I’m still annoyed about the sausagefest of the available characters.)

@WizardofOss

We’d only default to a long eee sound if it was spelt Leego. We basically just say it the same as we say the word “leg” but with an o on the end.

@Hiratha said:
"Retroactively surprised the pronunciation never came up for us all to argue about on my very pan-European Warcraft guild voice chat. Mind you I suppose as a bunch of mostly 18-21 year olds starting in 2008 with an entirely different extremely time-consuming hobby we were all collectively in our dark ages. (And the Mega sets sucked. I’m still annoyed about the sausagefest of the available characters.)

@WizardofOss

We’d only default to a long eee sound if it was spelt Leego. We basically just say it the same as we say the word “leg” but with an o on the end."

But would you say Mega like "Meh-ga" or closer to "May-ga"?

But to be fair, most languages, and English in particular, aren't exactly always that consistent. I mean, never, lever, sever, fever, all sound practically the same, right? ;-)

@WizardOfOss said:
" @Hiratha said:
"Retroactively surprised the pronunciation never came up for us all to argue about on my very pan-European Warcraft guild voice chat. Mind you I suppose as a bunch of mostly 18-21 year olds starting in 2008 with an entirely different extremely time-consuming hobby we were all collectively in our dark ages. (And the Mega sets sucked. I’m still annoyed about the sausagefest of the available characters.)

@WizardofOss

We’d only default to a long eee sound if it was spelt Leego. We basically just say it the same as we say the word “leg” but with an o on the end."

But would you say Mega like "Meh-ga" or closer to "May-ga"?

But to be fair, most languages, and English in particular, aren't exactly always that consistent. I mean, never, lever, sever, fever, all sound practically the same, right? ;-)"

Meh-ga!

But it’s not so much that we’re never inconsistent - the one thing we’re very consistent about is the inconsistency - but how we’d default to saying it absent a pre-existing known sound. One e, short eh, as the default.

(Caveat that this is my dialect and there are a lot of different ones, of course.)

It's downloadable as PDF (and there after convertable) from the Kindle "Devices and Content" page, which is hidden away @ https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ rather than in the Kindle library that normally opens.

Layout isn't great TBH, with tables being very narrow and spanning many pages.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @Hiratha said:
"Retroactively surprised the pronunciation never came up for us all to argue about on my very pan-European Warcraft guild voice chat. Mind you I suppose as a bunch of mostly 18-21 year olds starting in 2008 with an entirely different extremely time-consuming hobby we were all collectively in our dark ages. (And the Mega sets sucked. I’m still annoyed about the sausagefest of the available characters.)

@WizardofOss

We’d only default to a long eee sound if it was spelt Leego. We basically just say it the same as we say the word “leg” but with an o on the end."

But would you say Mega like "Meh-ga" or closer to "May-ga"?

But to be fair, most languages, and English in particular, aren't exactly always that consistent. I mean, never, lever, sever, fever, all sound practically the same, right? ;-)"

That's because English isn't *a* language. It's *several* languages stacked on top of each other, hidden under a trench coat so it look's like there's only one.

Free Lego Afol book?
Afol's will still cry it's too expensive.

Only exists as paperback on the Swedish Amazon Store hahaha.. I dont know if we even have Kindle here...? Anyway. FYI

Link for Italy (and EU !?) customers:

https://amzn.eu/d/0352dQ7P

”Around 2006, I had a Nintendo® PSP, and I was engrossed in the LEGO Star Wars PSP game.”

Is this a parallel world?

@darranc said:
"”Around 2006, I had a Nintendo® PSP, and I was engrossed in the LEGO Star Wars PSP game.”

Is this a parallel world?"

Well, parallel worlds where a given war went differently are common. Why should the Console Wars be any different?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
" @Hiratha said:
"Retroactively surprised the pronunciation never came up for us all to argue about on my very pan-European Warcraft guild voice chat. Mind you I suppose as a bunch of mostly 18-21 year olds starting in 2008 with an entirely different extremely time-consuming hobby we were all collectively in our dark ages. (And the Mega sets sucked. I’m still annoyed about the sausagefest of the available characters.)

@WizardofOss

We’d only default to a long eee sound if it was spelt Leego. We basically just say it the same as we say the word “leg” but with an o on the end."

But would you say Mega like "Meh-ga" or closer to "May-ga"?

But to be fair, most languages, and English in particular, aren't exactly always that consistent. I mean, never, lever, sever, fever, all sound practically the same, right? ;-)"

That's because English isn't *a* language. It's *several* languages stacked on top of each other, hidden under a trench coat so it look's like there's only one."

James Davis Nicoll’s bit is also good, and delightfully easy to find since it’s on his wikipedia page.

Also available on French Amazon, here :
https://www.amazon.fr/Hot-Tips-AFOL-Newbies-English-ebook/dp/B0GRRLJ128/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=3RKEDSATVTKWT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FWF5DyNnWEPTdLlWdYuarw.dnxwF2oKuvUkZUDEakc-uXe4luPtYOoPVN1CEuvswQc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Hot+Tips+for+AFOL+Newbies&qid=1773574894&s=digital-text&sprefix=hot+tips+for+afol+newbies%2Cdigital-text%2C211&sr=1-1

yes, here :
https://www.amazon.fr/Hot-Tips-AFOL-Newbies-English-ebook/dp/B0GRRLJ128/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=3RKEDSATVTKWT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FWF5DyNnWEPTdLlWdYuarw.dnxwF2oKuvUkZUDEakc-uXe4luPtYOoPVN1CEuvswQc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Hot+Tips+for+AFOL+Newbies&qid=1773574894&s=digital-text&sprefix=hot+tips+for+afol+newbies%2Cdigital-text%2C211&sr=1-1

same initial issue from France. Succeed to get a link, just by searching on Amazon.fr with these sentence "Hot Tips for AFOL Newbies". Try same on Amazon.IT.

@Hiratha said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
" @Hiratha said:
"Retroactively surprised the pronunciation never came up for us all to argue about on my very pan-European Warcraft guild voice chat. Mind you I suppose as a bunch of mostly 18-21 year olds starting in 2008 with an entirely different extremely time-consuming hobby we were all collectively in our dark ages. (And the Mega sets sucked. I’m still annoyed about the sausagefest of the available characters.)

@WizardofOss

We’d only default to a long eee sound if it was spelt Leego. We basically just say it the same as we say the word “leg” but with an o on the end."

But would you say Mega like "Meh-ga" or closer to "May-ga"?

But to be fair, most languages, and English in particular, aren't exactly always that consistent. I mean, never, lever, sever, fever, all sound practically the same, right? ;-)"

That's because English isn't *a* language. It's *several* languages stacked on top of each other, hidden under a trench coat so it look's like there's only one."

James Davis Nicoll’s bit is also good, and delightfully easy to find since it’s on his wikipedia page."

I've heard that one, too, although this is the first time I think I've seen a source. I thought about using a variation ofthe second sentence of it, in fact.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"I've only started reading it, but one thing has already surprised me: the section on the correct thing to call the bricks and the company that makes them. I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it "Leggo.""

I don't think I've ever seen anyone write it like that either, but for some reason most English speakers do seem to pronounce it like that ;-)"

I pronounce it the way the first LEGO commercial to air on TV in the US did, back in 1955:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faMOdpDmo3g

Granted, I didn't actually see that commercial until sometime post-2004 (my dad found it on a DVD he bought), but the pronunciation had been firmly established by the time I was born.

Well, it's only been 4 days but it doesn't seem to be free anymore.

I can't get it without paying unless I join Kindle Unlimited.... which is more expensive than the $10 for the book.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @Hiratha said:
"Retroactively surprised the pronunciation never came up for us all to argue about on my very pan-European Warcraft guild voice chat. Mind you I suppose as a bunch of mostly 18-21 year olds starting in 2008 with an entirely different extremely time-consuming hobby we were all collectively in our dark ages. (And the Mega sets sucked. I’m still annoyed about the sausagefest of the available characters.)

@WizardofOss

We’d only default to a long eee sound if it was spelt Leego. We basically just say it the same as we say the word “leg” but with an o on the end."

But would you say Mega like "Meh-ga" or closer to "May-ga"?

But to be fair, most languages, and English in particular, aren't exactly always that consistent. I mean, never, lever, sever, fever, all sound practically the same, right? ;-)"

Never & Sever, Lever & Fever
English pronunciation mostly depends on what language we originally nicked the word from & then add several centuries (or more) of bashing it about

Oh, & closer to Meh-ga. Mayga sounds very American

Great! Can't login to Amazon - they don't send SMS verifications anymore. They want me to verify my login with WhatsApp... no way. I don't use WhatsApp. Privacy is very important to me.

@Toc13 said:"Never & Sever, Lever & Fever"

Depends on the accent. Some English speakers pronounce "lever" so that it rhymes with "never" and "sever."

@cabbie said:
"I can't get it without paying unless I join Kindle Unlimited.... which is more expensive than the $10 for the book. "

Same. How sad.

Hello there everyone,

Thanks so much for having a good read of the book: Hot Tips for AFOL Newbies.
It’s the first ebook that I’ve written, it was a great learning experience and the global AFOL community, which is an amazing place to hangout with some groovy people.
1st time writing an ebook, there’s some interface mechanics that need ironing out, and I shall address those quirks later.

Here’s a new film, just finished this evening - https://youtu.be/bmf4VYsL6_c?si=2GRscMNAkFFpIP24

Go to Hippie-ville YouTube channel and subscribe!!

Thanks so much for your comments and support.

Have a groovy day.

Pete
@Hippie -ville