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.)
You get some interesting shit on the Cake station. A lot of Beck, for one.
Do you get any Moby?
Not that I remember. Other than Beck, there was a lot of shit that sounded like it had been on Dawson's Creek, unexpected Gorillaz, and a lot of Fratellis.
yes, I know we are WAY behind the curve on this
Heck our component stereo only has RCA jacks. It's around 18 years old. The speakers (Boston Acoustics) are around 25 years old. That shit never dies.
I have neither a stereo nor any speakers. Luckily I live alone, because I just wear my iPod around the house.
