Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.

'Objects In Space'


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.


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.


Gudanov - Jan 05, 2012 9:45:21 am PST #14550 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

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.


Steph L. - Jan 05, 2012 9:46:08 am PST #14551 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

converting PDF to MOBI

I just went to a Moby place. My brain ain't right.


sumi - Jan 05, 2012 9:47:03 am PST #14552 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Adorable dinosaur expert.


Steph L. - Jan 05, 2012 9:48:49 am PST #14553 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

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.)