Mal had a Fischer-Price toy we got in Greece, one of those "cellphones" that speak numbers and letters and shapes, and to my surprise when it sang the whole alphabet, it did it to the tune of the American/English alphabet song.

I learned the Greek alphabet because my freshman year roommate joined a sorority and she had to learn the Greek alphabet to some cutesy song. For some reason, it stuck in my head. (I also still have my high school fight song up there, too. Go figure.)

Kindle owners - may I ask some questions? We are envisioning a project where we supply students with Kindles. I know one can read converted .pdf files on a Kindle - right? As for books in copyright - suppose a class had to buy & read Twilight on their university-supplied Kindles. After student A turns the Kindle back in to the university, does she still have access to Twilight through her account at Amazon, and could she download it onto another device? Would the copy of Twilight still be on the Kindle she returned to the university? Um, I guess what I'm asking is, are books tied to the user's Amazon account, or to the device? Or some combination of both?

What about iBooks? Same sitch, or different?

flea, they're still in the users account, and could be downloaded to a PC (with the relatively new Kindle reader for desktops) if they don't own a Kindle. If they have a kindle, it has to be associated with their account. For the loaner kindle, you'd have to remind them to un-associate it when they returned it.

You can read PDF, kindle format, or non-DRM mobipocket format on a Kindle.

According to Apple: "iBooks supports the industry-leading ePub digital book file type. You can sync freely available ePub files to iBooks using iTunes, or download ePub files from the iBookstore. iBooks also supports syncing and viewing PDFs. Other digital book file types are not supported at this time." I'm fairly sure you can't read library books with iBooks, at least through Overdrive since it requires Adobe Digital Editions.

On the Barnes & Noble Nook you can read library books through Adobe Digital Editions, which supports PDF and ePUB as well as the proprietary Nook format.

(eta more information)

My copy of Mockingjay is "out for delivery" - fingers crossed that they leave it at the door rather than waiting for a signature!

And I finished The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest this morning - so I can totally devote myself to reading Mockingjay.

Oooh, yippee! My library is finally listing Blameless in the catalog! Obviously it's not in yet, but I put myself on the waiting list.

And I believe I've mentioned my library's Web site makes me sad because it doesn't show where you are on the waiting list. So I know I'm waiting on Mockingjay (and now Blameless), but I don't know how long I have to wait!

I'm assuming with Mockingjay they ordered a shitload of copies, so I'd bet I don't have to wait too long.

Booksellers Brace for ‘Mockingjay’ Landing [link]

This is really confusing because I saw copies of Mockingjay in Borderlands on Saturday.

I probably won't get around to reading the series until October, when I hope the holds free up at the library.

As of Friday, Target had a big sign for Mockingjay, but no books.