Announcing new Series on Reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War

Ah, we got the wrong camera! Oh no. Well, okay. We have to use this now because I screwed up. There, there it is. Well, okay. Hi there. I'm Clifford Bates and we've got the weird new camera because I'm talking to you on this one. This is my announcement video. Announcement for what? It's my new series. It's, uh, we're going to be doing Thucydides' Peloponnese. Um, I'm going to be using the Google Books. I don't like it because Google Books, uh, even though it's a Google Book, it's available, I can use it, um, for this so people can watch it, we can see on the screen, but it sucks because unlike the book, which is nice, the margin, it is... ebooks kind of **** everything up by blurring everything together, so therefore these things are put inside the body of the text, so therefore instead of being good, useful margin notes, they come kind of like, kind of weird. It kind of reads it. And the first, uh, you'll see in the first, uh, I recorded the first episode for 17 books already. I've done two recordings so far, that is, and it'll be starting next week on, uh, I think Tuesday or Thursday maybe. Um, uh, yeah, uh, Wednesday, the first introduction of the series, we talk about the series, and then, then Thursday will be the first 17 books. Um, what's going to happen here, it's going to be going, uh, this is, uh, we're going to be using the, the edition is the landmark Thucydides, it's worth having, it's actually worth getting, it's kind of a great book with the maps and everything. We're not going to be able to access the maps for the purposes of the Aligned thing because of, uh, Google, the way Google Books did it, it doesn't really work that well, it's kind of painful, uh, but I'm going to be using the Google Books thing for, because it's the way that we show the text and you can read, we can read along with each other, right? Um, um, there's, unlike the other, uh, unlike, uh, some of the other things we've done, there's no natural divisions here. The book, uh, if I was going to show something, I might do something about why, uh, doing this is a little more difficult, uh, than, uh, the other one because the, the, the chapters are smaller than other chapters and reading texts, uh, so therefore, um, it's worth kind of looking at. Um, again, this is our thing, this is, this is only the, the reading to this, um, we will be doing so many chapters of a session, I'm trying to make it small, but it's going to, it's going to be a lot of sessions because this is a, a very long book. Well, okay, um, that's it. I'm going to have to say goodbye now and end the stream. Uh, this is just an impromptu, I should talk about the advertisement of, of my forthcoming series starting next Wednesday on a reading through Sidney's Peloponnesian War. Again, I'm Clifford Bates, you are, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, have a good day.