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)
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
meara - Dec 22, 2010 5:52:29 am PST #13322 of 28282
DavidS - Dec 22, 2010 6:22:33 am PST #13323 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Today is Kenneth Rexroth's birthday. I wrote about him for Hilo.
flea - Dec 22, 2010 6:24:45 am PST #13324 of 28282
information libertarian
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).
Ginger - Dec 22, 2010 6:28:46 am PST #13325 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Make me step away from the Quality Paperback $9.99 for everything sale. I want to buy Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein for everyone.
Jesse - Dec 22, 2010 7:24:22 am PST #13326 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Gudanov - Dec 22, 2010 8:34:58 am PST #13327 of 28282
Coding and Sleeping
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.
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2010 8:49:27 am PST #13328 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Calli - Dec 22, 2010 8:55:26 am PST #13329 of 28282
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think Guards! Guards is a good Discworld starting point. Then again, I prefer Vimes to Rincewind, so others may well disagree.
Connie Neil - Dec 22, 2010 8:58:16 am PST #13330 of 28282
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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.
Jessica - Dec 22, 2010 9:10:31 am PST #13331 of 28282
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've bought a few new releases on the Kindle - cheaper than the hardback and more instantly gratifying than waiting for the library's copy to become available.