Would you read what you read if people knew you were reading it?
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According to this[^] Daily Mail survey, a large proportion of the sample use their eReader as a way to 'hide' what they are reading from others. I realize that the sample population were DM readers and should take that into account, but still. That has never even entered my head as a factor when deciding to buy a book. Does that affect whether you get an eBook or a treeBook?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
I'm not bashful about what I read. If others think my tastes are odd, that's their hangup; I couldn't care less.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm not bashful about what I read. If others think my tastes are odd, that's their hangup; I couldn't care less.
Will Rogers never met me.
:thumbsup: Quite right too!
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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According to this[^] Daily Mail survey, a large proportion of the sample use their eReader as a way to 'hide' what they are reading from others. I realize that the sample population were DM readers and should take that into account, but still. That has never even entered my head as a factor when deciding to buy a book. Does that affect whether you get an eBook or a treeBook?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
I most definitely did not read that. :omg:
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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According to this[^] Daily Mail survey, a large proportion of the sample use their eReader as a way to 'hide' what they are reading from others. I realize that the sample population were DM readers and should take that into account, but still. That has never even entered my head as a factor when deciding to buy a book. Does that affect whether you get an eBook or a treeBook?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Heaven forbid that people should ever know that I read, gasp, computer books and Top Gear Magazine. The shame of it all.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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According to this[^] Daily Mail survey, a large proportion of the sample use their eReader as a way to 'hide' what they are reading from others. I realize that the sample population were DM readers and should take that into account, but still. That has never even entered my head as a factor when deciding to buy a book. Does that affect whether you get an eBook or a treeBook?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
I know I read crap (mostly science fiction). If anyone is so rude as to point that out to me directly, they can get stuffed. The same goes for my taste in music. I know I listen to crap (smooth jazz, some New Age, 80's pop, 90's modern rock). If you don't like it, shove an ice pick into your ears so you don't have to listen to it. The wonderful thing about middle age is you stop wasting time worrying about what other people think.
Software Zen:
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I know I read crap (mostly science fiction). If anyone is so rude as to point that out to me directly, they can get stuffed. The same goes for my taste in music. I know I listen to crap (smooth jazz, some New Age, 80's pop, 90's modern rock). If you don't like it, shove an ice pick into your ears so you don't have to listen to it. The wonderful thing about middle age is you stop wasting time worrying about what other people think.
Software Zen:
delete this;There's nothing wrong with a bit of smooth jazz. You go for it, you middle aged grump. I am proud of you.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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There's nothing wrong with a bit of smooth jazz. You go for it, you middle aged grump. I am proud of you.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
Thanks, Pete!
Software Zen:
delete this; -
I know I read crap (mostly science fiction). If anyone is so rude as to point that out to me directly, they can get stuffed. The same goes for my taste in music. I know I listen to crap (smooth jazz, some New Age, 80's pop, 90's modern rock). If you don't like it, shove an ice pick into your ears so you don't have to listen to it. The wonderful thing about middle age is you stop wasting time worrying about what other people think.
Software Zen:
delete this;I do the same. if someone doesn't like it... his/her problem.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I know I read crap (mostly science fiction). If anyone is so rude as to point that out to me directly, they can get stuffed. The same goes for my taste in music. I know I listen to crap (smooth jazz, some New Age, 80's pop, 90's modern rock). If you don't like it, shove an ice pick into your ears so you don't have to listen to it. The wonderful thing about middle age is you stop wasting time worrying about what other people think.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
The wonderful thing about middle age is you stop wasting time worrying about what other people think.
I'm afraid I can't remember that far back. Wait till you reach "The Third Age", whatever that is.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
The wonderful thing about middle age is you stop wasting time worrying about what other people think.
I'm afraid I can't remember that far back. Wait till you reach "The Third Age", whatever that is.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
That's where you tell people what to think, whether they asked your opinion or not? :-D
Software Zen:
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According to this[^] Daily Mail survey, a large proportion of the sample use their eReader as a way to 'hide' what they are reading from others. I realize that the sample population were DM readers and should take that into account, but still. That has never even entered my head as a factor when deciding to buy a book. Does that affect whether you get an eBook or a treeBook?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
How can you possibly allow what someone else thinks determine your entertainment reading/listening material. Both pastimes are for you not someone else. I admit listening to loud crap music does affect other, so use headphones. As for reading, we have 2 libraries in our house, one an eclectic mix of dead tree book (the wifes) and my ebook library of scifi, which also has a too large percentage of crap.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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According to this[^] Daily Mail survey, a large proportion of the sample use their eReader as a way to 'hide' what they are reading from others. I realize that the sample population were DM readers and should take that into account, but still. That has never even entered my head as a factor when deciding to buy a book. Does that affect whether you get an eBook or a treeBook?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
The only content, in any media, I would not want anyone else on the planet to know I was reading are some of the posts in the CP Lounge. And if there was a drug ... the after-reading-post equivalent of the morning-after pill ... that would erase (only) the memory of some of them I've read, and some I've written, I'd want to have that ready at all times. best, Bill
"Humans are amphibians ... half spirit and half animal ... as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation: the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis
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According to this[^] Daily Mail survey, a large proportion of the sample use their eReader as a way to 'hide' what they are reading from others. I realize that the sample population were DM readers and should take that into account, but still. That has never even entered my head as a factor when deciding to buy a book. Does that affect whether you get an eBook or a treeBook?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
I'm 100% treebooks, as is Miss Wiz. However, I have recently found some free-e-books that I am interested in, and it turns out, Miss Wiz has a Kindle from a parent for X-Mas that she never opened. I'm going to test the waters with the free books first (mostly gardening / outdoor books).
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I'm 100% treebooks, as is Miss Wiz. However, I have recently found some free-e-books that I am interested in, and it turns out, Miss Wiz has a Kindle from a parent for X-Mas that she never opened. I'm going to test the waters with the free books first (mostly gardening / outdoor books).
wizardzz wrote:
(mostly gardening / outdoor books)
If they contain a lot of pictures you may be disappointed but for text they are excellent.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.