Xander ,'Get It Done'
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."
I'm pissed because I wanted to reread Dirk Gently and I lost my copy in Katrina. No ebook! I have the Hitchhikers on paper already, thank you. No use to me digitally. I bought the Liff thingy, out of sentiment, but I really wanted Dirk.
I have to decide what books to buy before I go on vacation. Will I finish The Game of Thrones? Probably. Should get the second one. Neuromancer and Snow Crash piqued my interest, and maybe I should see what Gaiman I don't have on paper.
Hopping on from Budapest to say LOVE my kindle for the long trip here and train etc. Even used as a guidebook it isn't so bad, though hard to flip through (and not many available). I also recommend calibre. And the "collections" (which is folders/tags)
Today is Kenneth Rexroth's birthday. I wrote about him for Hilo.
I have somehow made Amazon recognize me as a US resident! And successfully downloaded Moby Dick (my lunchtime reading for the spring semester.)
I can see already that my greatest Kindle temptation is going to be romance novels. They run pretty cheap, for the most part ($4).
Make me step away from the Quality Paperback $9.99 for everything sale. I want to buy Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein for everyone.
I can see already that my greatest Kindle temptation is going to be romance novels. They run pretty cheap, for the most part ($4).
And no one sees the covers! Per that NYTimes (?) article.
When I consider buying ebooks that I already own in actual book format.
It is tempting. I have yet to buy an e-book though, everything I've gotten is free so far. I would have bought two by now, but they weren't available as eBooks. Didn't end up buying them at all.
What's the recommended starting point with Discworld? I've read a few of the books, but in no particular order, and it was a long time ago and I don't even remember which ones.
I think Guards! Guards is a good Discworld starting point. Then again, I prefer Vimes to Rincewind, so others may well disagree.
I'm with Calli, start with the Guards books. I always want to drown Rincewind. There are guides to the Discworld books that will show the various character groups: the Guards and Ankh-Morpork, Rincewind, Granny Weatherwax and the witches of the Ramtops--you'd like Granny Weatherwax, ita.