Today's the day
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Buying one of those Amazon kindle things on the way home, I've been meaning to for ages and have just decided that today is the day :-D
I started with a Nook Simple Touch. Worked fine and had great battery life but the lack of a back light and no apps drove me to a tablet (iPad Air). Haven't touched the Nook since I first powered on the tablet. :doh:
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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OriginalGriff wrote:
But...just being able to carry a hundred books with you all the time is so much better than trying to lug a dozen anywhere!
How often do you go on a holiday that's long enough to get through a dozen books, let alone a hundred? :omg: Depending on the size of the books, and assuming I'm not going to be spending all day reading, three or four will see me through most holidays.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
:laugh: I can read a paperback in a couple of hours, but I generally have 4 or 5 fiction books on the go at a time, so I carry more than I can read in case I don't feel like "reading that" at the moment. But being able to carry technical PDF stuff, the manuals for all my kit - ah! That's handy!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Bl@@dy cheek! :laugh: Ah, the great DRM debate: "Let's treat all our paying customers as criminals, and not actually inconvenience the real pirates much at all..." A very poor attitude the publishers have, I agree. But...just being able to carry a hundred books with you all the time is so much better than trying to lug a dozen anywhere!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I thought my objection to e-Books was just me getting old, but you've proven me wrong! ;P Anything that gives the distributor the power to prevent me from reading a book that I've purchased, prevent me from lending a book to someone else, or prevent me from leaving my book collection to someone when I die, is a Very Bad Thing, and should be discouraged at all costs.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Richard Deeming wrote:
or prevent me from leaving my book collection my hoard of books to someone when I die, is a Very Bad Thing, and should be discouraged at all costs.
Do you think anyone really wants all of your old programming books? :)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
being able to carry a hundred books with you
I generally do "remove from device" when I finish a book. Lightens it up considerably. :~
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
I just shrink the font size: has the same effect!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Buying one of those Amazon kindle things on the way home, I've been meaning to for ages and have just decided that today is the day :-D
Even the fire's have pretty good battery life(kill the brightness a bit and turn on airplane mode). Beats having to move the massive programming books around, cheaper too. I do kinda miss having paper backs for fiction, but I'm out of shelf space for them anyway.
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Richard Deeming wrote:
or prevent me from leaving my book collection my hoard of books to someone when I die, is a Very Bad Thing, and should be discouraged at all costs.
Do you think anyone really wants all of your old programming books? :)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
But that only accounts for one shelf of one bookcase! The rest is filled with sci-fi, horror, Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, and Douglas Adams. :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Buying one of those Amazon kindle things on the way home, I've been meaning to for ages and have just decided that today is the day :-D
I've had one for around five years and it's fantastic when I have to travel. As far as I am concerned it is as readable as a paperback.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I thought my objection to e-Books was just me getting old, but you've proven me wrong! ;P Anything that gives the distributor the power to prevent me from reading a book that I've purchased, prevent me from lending a book to someone else, or prevent me from leaving my book collection to someone when I die, is a Very Bad Thing, and should be discouraged at all costs.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Calibre has an add in that removes almost all DRM. So I have a library of ebooks that I store on dropbox via Calibre and access on android and a fondle slab, my kids and a number of fellow SF freaks have access to the library, where's the problem. I simply purchase and download the books, drag the file into Calibre, it cleans it, converts to epub if required and stores it in dropbox, bloody simple and easy and the DRM people can shove where the sun don't shine. Now if only I could purchase any book I wanted without geo restrictions, I have not bothered to circumvent that as it is not too dramatic an inconvenience.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Despite the name, they don't burn very well.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
:-D
Will Rogers never met me.
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I just shrink the font size: has the same effect!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
You can use one of the thinner fonts, too, for additional savings.
Will Rogers never met me.
