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.
Our stereo is ancient as well.
The new stereo doesn't have a tape deck. Stereos with tape decks still exist, but, really, the iPod dock was the primary motivator behind this one (not to stream Pandora; that was just something I figured out one night after we got it). So the old stereo is going to the community Up For Grabs day. (Once a year, in the auditorium of one of the churches, there is a swap meet called Up For Grabs day -- as long as you bring 2 things [obviously you can bring more], you can peruse all the other stuff people brought and take home as much as you like. Last year Tim got a perfectly good LCD monitor for his computer.)
Somewhere there is a portable boom box that has a tape deck, in case we have a sudden need to play tapes.