There was a fellow paperback mystery reader at my old library branch who would copy edit books -- in pencil, but sometimes wrongly.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jesse - Dec 21, 2010 11:07:47 am PST #13308 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Rayne - Dec 21, 2010 11:09:49 am PST #13309 of 28282
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Go here and roll around in the freebie goodness (left column). Also, if you want to convert stuff easily to mobi format (from epub, lit, pdf, etc) download a program called Calibre. Then just copy files to your kindle!
flea - Dec 21, 2010 11:50:04 am PST #13310 of 28282
information libertarian
In amusing Kindle news, the Kindle store thinks I live in the UK and no amount of resetting my address or transferring my account to amazon.com will convince it otherwise. Because one time about 2.5 years ago I bought some books for a friend living in England who had a baby, and had the books shipped directly.
zuisa - Dec 21, 2010 12:50:12 pm PST #13311 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It was completely different from the sort of stuff I usually read, but a really good time. I'll let its TV Tropes page sum it up for me:
"Possibly the best known book by Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash is basically the tale of a sword-slinging hacker who teams up with a badass Kourier in a post-Cyper Punk, disincorporated USA to fight "Snow Crash" - a computer virus for the brain. Oh, and there's a badass biker with glass knives and a nuclear bomb strapped to his motorbike, too."
That about sums it up. The book was apparently the inspiration for both Second Life and Google Earth, and was the first thing to use the term 'avatar' in a computer-related sense. So that's neat.
Ginger - Dec 21, 2010 1:08:16 pm PST #13312 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There’s only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
software
high-speed pizza delivery
zuisa - Dec 21, 2010 1:15:11 pm PST #13313 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I loved all the pizza delivery stuff. Just the idea of having to go through four year of university with the Mafia to learn to be a pizza deliverer is so amusing.
I found most of the book really amusing, actually. I also love ancient middle eastern mythology, and so I was pleasantly surprised when Sumerian mythology popped up. And everybody was just so badass.
javachik - Dec 21, 2010 2:36:23 pm PST #13314 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
Also, if you want to convert stuff easily to mobi format (from epub, lit, pdf, etc) download a program called Calibre. Then just copy files to your kindle!
Rayne, I haven't tried this yet, but thanks for the info.
Can someone please tell Ms. Rowlings that I FINALLY have enough downtime that I can read Harry Potter and that she needs to authorize it for e-readers?? I can't lug around those books. I even actually have a sad old lady reason now - chronic bursitis in my rotator cuff. :(
Consuela - Dec 21, 2010 4:49:51 pm PST #13315 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
HP isn't available for the Kindle? That's ridonkulous.
javachik - Dec 21, 2010 5:04:37 pm PST #13316 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
IKNOWRIGHT?!
Rayne - Dec 21, 2010 5:58:56 pm PST #13317 of 28282
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
HP isn't available in any ebook format officially (you can find unauthorized versions if you look though). JK Rowling has been against them, but it sounds like she's rethinking it. (Hmmm.... more money, yes please!)
That's when ebooks start making me cranky. When I consider buying ebooks that I already own in actual book format.