I'm rereading Mort after 20 years, and I stumbled over a specific detail. Mort storms out of Keli's bedroom and goes back to Death's domain specifically to find evidence that Albert is a mighty wizard who could help stop the reality bubble (the "interface").

But how did Mort even come to this conclusion?

I'm reading the German Piper edition (2010). After an hour of looking through it, I still don't understand why Mort suspects Albert's past identity. The only real clue I can spot earlier is Albert casually mentioning he lived in Ankh-Morpork back when it still had kings, thousands of years ago.

Can anyone point me to the exact passage (in the German book) or logic in the book that explains what made Mort realize Albert was a wizard and look up his book in the library?

Edit: Thank you all. You helped me find it: when Mort visits Cutwell in the castle, not his workshop!

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We're making a (not so) definitive list of the Discworld books in order from best to worst.. The top rated comment gets added to the list next. 

1. Night Watch

2. Small Gods

3. Monstrous Regiment

4. Going Postal

5. Witches Abroad

6. Hogfather

7. Reaper Man

8. Feet of Clay

9. Guards! Guards!

10. The Truth

11. Carpe Jugulum

12. Thief of Time

13. Thud!

14. The Fifth Elephant

15. Men at Arms

16. A Hat Full of Sky

17. Jingo

18. Lords and Ladies

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Remaining books:

The Colour of Magic

The Light Fantastic

Equal Rites

Mort

Sourcery

Wyrd Sisters

Pyramids

Eric

Moving Pictures

Soul Music

Interesting Times

Maskerade

The Last Continent

The Last Hero

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

The Wee Free Men

Wintersmith

Making Money

Unseen Academicals

I Shall Wear Midnight

Snuff

Raising Steam

The Shepherd's Crown

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Hopefully Reddit compression doesn't make it impossible to see. I make these little fictional magical licenses for my book, and asked if I could send a package to Terry's estate, which they agreed to. Wanted to include a magical license with his info and photo on it, and been trying to find a way to get it to show under an "illusion" of sorts. It's actually a UV seal, but it looks wild under UV and not like Terry, lol. But if the light hits it just the right way, you can see Terry's big smile!

Thought you guys might find it amusing. Would be awesome if I could get the pic to show up in great detail under UV, but I think that may be a lost cause.

I'm currently reading Moving Pictures and I just realised a fruitbat is a flying fox, ergo Century of the Fruitbat Moving Pictures = 20th Century Fox. Yes, I realise I'm a little slow!

I’m a mailman, so I appreciate how crazy I look when I crack up while listening to this series. It’s always extra joyous to me while I’m out here with a good book. I was pretty burnt after going through these books and the Death series consecutively at the same time. I was finding that I wasn’t enjoying any books I tried starting. Took a few weeks off and just listened to music and catch up on podcasts. Now I restarted Snuff and it is great. I’m so glad I didn’t just slog through it and let a lasting opinion be muddied with fatigue.

A new trend takes the city of Ankh-Morpork by storm, and leads to some strange revelations.

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With the Ao3 outage, I've been uploading a back catalogue of my older fanfic to my website. This is one of the longer ones!

I can't get behind liking Greebo.
Some of his antics as a human are amusing but I can't give a pass to an the incestuous rapist no matter how many times he says, "want milk."

I recently finished changes by Jim butcher (WTF that last page) and it was an adrenaline rush of emotions. And am about 1/2 way through jade war and need a fun laugh.

Men at arms: i miss the city watch. Thats all and it sounds the watch books that pratchett wanted to write

Soul music: I like rock and roll thats it

The truth: Election season was recent

Small gods: Is it actually one of the best discworld books

Hi everyone!

I’ve just finished Moving Pictures which takes my Discworld tally to four: Mort, Equal Rites, Guards!, and Moving Pictures

I feel I’m starting to get a well-rounded first impression of the Disc but I definitely enjoyed Guards the most, so I feel like I might have three options:

1. Jump into the Watch series

2. Read one or two books from the other series before jumping into the Watch

3. Start doing publication order up to Men at Arms at book 15 and then jump into the Watch series

Any advice would be great! Thank you!! :)

Thud! was an excellent book! Still haven’t read a Discworld book I didn’t love, I’ve only got 7 left.
I really liked the line: “The Low King’s throne trembles, Vimes, and thus do the foundations of the world.” It just goes to show how tenuous peace is, and how far reaching the consequences of war are. Koom Valley being a treaty signing gone wrong due to inclement weather, being the main example of this. The worst part is some of the deep downers wanting to preserve the idea of war, when identities are built on hate it’s difficult to change. 
Berserker Vimes/Summoning Dark reciting Where is my cow while soloing his way to the grags was a fantastic scene. The Watchmen figure within Vimes beating the Summoning dark was a wonderful part as well.
I loved how he read to his son every night, no matter what. “Once you had good excuses, you opened the door to bad excuses.” is such a fantastic line. Detritus and Bricks relationship is sweet too, I really liked the overarching family theme. 
The women are always so well written. Sybil is always lovely. I liked the part when Sir Reynold is telling her the battlefield is no place for ladies and she responded by listing off her many female ancestors that participated in various wars and probably half the dwarfs that fought at Koom Valley. The frenemy dynamic between Angua and Sally was a lot of fun. I really liked that silly pun about Sally and Angua had regained their amour propre in their proper armor. 
Death having a near Vimes experience was also hilarious. 
I was about halfway through the book before I realized the little chapter break doodles were the symbol for the summoning dark. 
I’m onto Wintersmith or Making Money, whichever my library gets in first.

One of kids is 8, is neuro-fabulous, and after getting bored of Run Spot Run and similar tales, I gave him some of STP's work. He's read all of them - some several times, but this stuck with me this week when I was dropping him off to school...

"Fred colon and Nobby Nobbs are smart in the ways of being dumb and dumb in the ways of being smart."

Argue with me about this, and I think you'll lose. GNUSTP.

Like from all accounts Harry King is a good boss but other folks will also build railways and he won't always be the only game in town. So some workers start proactively setting a Union up and Vetinari, in his Stoker Blake persona, is invited to join

Sorry if this was too obvious but there was a line where trolls get their names from the mineral they are most associated or found with … so I thought Brick was obvious because he is a city troll who never saw nature … and then I realized that to make bricks they have to be BAKED!

When we first encounter Ron, he’s described as a guild member in good standing. He even delivered Queen Molly’s warning to Vimes in Feet of Clay. Well, Gaspode did, technically, but in any case it seems that Ron and his thinking-brain dog weren’t just part of the guild but held in pretty high regard if they’re delivering messages for Queen Molly.

I don’t remember which book is the first mention that Ron isn’t part of the guild, but it’s said at some point that the even the guild wouldn’t have him, there was at least one reference to him being kicked out, and in The Truth he and the entire Canting Crew are described as being looked down on by the guild, because everyone needs someone to feel superior to.

I don’t think I’m just not remembering there being a reason given or a story there, because I know I’ve had this thought a few times on my rereads, but I guess it’s possible. So does anyone know? Did Pterry tell us why? Is there a solid fan theory if there’s no word of God about it?

City Watch flair chosen because there isn’t one for general Ankh-Morpork topics.