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)
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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 28358
DavidS - Dec 22, 2010 6:22:33 am PST #13323 of 28358
"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 28358
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 28358
"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 28358
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 28358
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 28358
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 28358
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 28358
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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 28358
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.