I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.

Xander ,'Help'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 05, 2012 9:31:44 am PST #14540 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I'm sure that if I commuted on public transportation I would appreciate the convenience of the Kindle much more.

This is when I read. Also, I can get fanfic on there pretty easily. But I wasn't using it at all when I was getting a ride and/or had a smart phone on which I could read fic.

I am trying to be careful so that noone steals my kindle thinking it is an ipad or something.


Jessica - Jan 05, 2012 9:32:49 am PST #14541 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I *love* reading on the Kindle. I didn't expect to, but I do.


javachik - Jan 05, 2012 9:33:17 am PST #14542 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I *love* reading on the Kindle. I didn't expect to, but I do.

Me, too.


Steph L. - Jan 05, 2012 9:34:02 am PST #14543 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I *love* reading on the Kindle. I didn't expect to, but I do.

I hoped I would, but it hasn't grabbed me. That may yet change. We'll see.


P.M. Marc - Jan 05, 2012 9:34:27 am PST #14544 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Me three.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 05, 2012 9:34:55 am PST #14545 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have SOOO much work to do that I can't even work as I am so unfocused. I really need to hire a student, because this is the cause of me having so much work.


Ginger - Jan 05, 2012 9:37:38 am PST #14546 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

My library hasn't lost any books since it went to a computer system with bar codes. They scan them in before they go on the cart. I managed to lose one, though.

The library started lending ebooks through Overdrive about two weeks ago, but they have a limitation on how many people can "check out" a book at a time, even though there's no physical reason for that. Everything I wanted to check out I would have had to put on hold, which sort of defeated the impulse factor.


Steph L. - Jan 05, 2012 9:39:28 am PST #14547 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

they have a limitation on how many people can "check out" a book at a time, even though there's no physical reason for that.

I think they buy a certain number of "copies" (licenses, I assume) of a given e-book, so in effect it's like checking out an analog book -- if all 3,000 copies of Breaking Dawn are checked out, then #3,001 has to wait.


askye - Jan 05, 2012 9:41:16 am PST #14548 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

I have pdf crochet patterns on my Kindle. They work out well and I can change the size to make it more readable. Not in color, since it's a touch but that's okay.

Dad got me this for Christmas and I like it way more than I thought. I've only bought 1 full price book (V is for Vengeance) and the rest have been free or really cheap. I have a bad habit of flipping to the end to see what happens and then getting bored and never finishing a book. I don't do that with the Kindle.

Also because my place is saved I find I'm not going back and rereading sections because I can't remember where I stopped. So it's easier for me to read a couple of pages of one book, then a few of another.


Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2012 9:42:46 am PST #14549 of 30001
brillig

I'm reading a whole lot more classic/old stuff than I have, because I can grab it off Gutenberg and ManyBooks when I get a yen for something, and it's easy to have three or four things in progress at once. "Hm, let's do a few more pages of Woman in White--no, no, Whose Body? just came out as a freebie, read that!--no, where's that long Harry/Draco fic, I want to re-read that one scene. Hm, where's that Austen I was thinking of reading? Oh! Jane Eyre!"

It's very decadent.