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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really like my e-reader (a primitive-seeming Sony), though I don't buy anything for it.
If you have calibre, you can very flexible about formats. I like turning things into ePub for reading since that's the format my reader plays best with. On my wife's kindle I've found that converting PDF to MOBI first makes for a much better experience.
converting PDF to MOBI
I just went to a Moby place. My brain ain't right.
The technology thing I'm digging the most right now is that our new stereo has an iPod dock (yes, I know we are WAY behind the curve on this, but, well, that's how we roll [I won't even tell you how old our TV is]), and we can stream Pandora through the iPod Touch over wifi.
I have been listening to Vince Guaraldi radio pretty much nonstop for over a week. (With a break when Tim demanded we create a Cake station on Pandora. You get some interesting shit on the Cake station. A lot of Beck, for one.)