Anyone find the their e-reader struggles with the Secret Projects?

The epubs have these massive, beautiful drawings which my (1 year old) e-reader struggles with every time i reach the end of the chapter, and then because they are so large they are overly zoomed in.

i'm tempted to run them through something like Libre to see if i can compress the images down to something my ereader can handle.

Ok, I'm going to get this out of the way first: I love Brandon Sanderson's work and the Cosmere is epic and awesome.

It took me some time to warm up to Secret Project #3. My biggest gripe is once again Kate Reading. This time it wasn't pronunciation or tempo, it was her reading in Hoid's voice. Nails on a freaking chalkboard.

The "Hoid-isms" are reduced as the book goes, so there are fewer occurrences of her mangling the Hoid I've grown to love (Michael Kramer) as the book goes. But holy crap that was jarring.

My unsolicited and unprofessional advice to Brandon for the next book that switches gendered perspectives is to have a different voice handling the narration during the female perspective.

I feel it would have been far improved to have the female perspective covered by Pattern Design / Kate with the male perspective being handled by Hoid / Michael.

• Edit: I keep mixing up Pattern and Design. I swear I'm not racist, some of my best friends are cryptics.

Initial thoughts? I’m only a few hours in (chapter 4 right now). I did not read any of the pre release material.

This is an entirely new world right? Or does it overlap with known parts of the cosmere?

Unofficial thread I’m starting- please don’t feel the need to wait for me to post a part 2.

I’m working on a reread of Way of Kings right now (I have fully read the whole cosmere; this is my project while I wait for each secret project), and I just got to the part where Shallan’s siblings are talking to her via spanreed about the soulcaster.

Nan Balat mentions that their father’s steward Luesh was found with a pendant with three diamonds in a strange pattern.

Obviously we know from later books that he was a member of the ghostbloods, but according to the coppermind, all ghostbloods must have the symbol tattooed somewhere on their body, so why does Luesh get away with just having a pendant?

The WoK was a 5 star read for me, WoR a 3 star and now I'm struggling to get properly into Oathbringer. I think I'm on chapter 10. Anyone else have this problem? Does it get more interesting or am I just not a Sanderson person?

Hero of Ages spoilers towards the bottom, markup may not work if you're using Jerboa.

I've never been much of an audiobook person, switching back and forth between physical copies and e-books depending on the situation. However on a recent road trip my wife and I started listening to Mistborn on Audible together.

We're now a few chapters into Well of Ascension and I have to say it's been an amazing experience, and has really enhanced things for both of us.

It's fascinating getting to hear real time takes on different characters and scenes, as well as theory crafting. Some not very accurate, some right on the nose. We're currently on chapter five of WoA and...

::: spoiler Hero of Ages spoilers after a second recounting of Vin's mother killing her sister and piercing Vin's ear, she wondered aloud if that might have something to do with how much more powerful than a normal mistborn Vin seems to be. :::

Has anyone else had similar experiences with listening to the Audiobooks with someone? The biggest issue we've encountered is finding ways to break up sessions when getting close to the end of the book, even listening on 1.2x speed the Sanderlanche of The Final Empire is still 4-6 hours long.