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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."

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Steph L. - Jan 07, 2011 6:56:16 am PST #13452 of 28282

I look more rad than Lutheranism

??? It seems so very wrong that my Windows computer can run a newer version of iTunes than your Mac.

Right??? But my iBook is 6 years old. It's held up admirably, and I'm so used to it that I keep resisting changing. It can only run iTunes 9.2. Any 10.x version needs Leopard or higher. And, honestly, even if there were a decent workaround to get past that on my geriatric iBook, I don't want to deal with the complications to do it. iTunes 9.2 is fine for me. I'm sure I'll get a new Macbook some time this year, and then I can update the iOS on the iTouch.

-t - Jan 07, 2011 7:06:11 am PST #13453 of 28282

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I've read some books on my (1st gen) Touch, and it works ok. It does get a little eye strainy after a while, but I could read a couple-few chapters at a time

meara - Jan 07, 2011 7:36:54 am PST #13454 of 28282

I've read some books on my iphone with the kindle app. I'd rather read on the kindle, but it was do-able.

Strega - Jan 07, 2011 7:38:19 am PST #13455 of 28282

I have a 4G Touch and apps for... lessee: Stanza, iBooks, and Nook. I might have had a fourth that I deleted. I thought Stanza was much better than the others, actually. But I also don't use any of them that much -- I put some free ebooks on in case I need a time-killer, and one how-to (ish) book that I only read in bits and pieces anyway. If I had a long metro commute or something, I'd use it then. I don't like reading on it enough to do so when I'm at home and have already been staring at screens for 8 hours.

-- Oh, but a friend has the 3G and she definitely reads on it a lot; we were talking about that recently. I'll ask which apps she uses.

Jessica - Jan 07, 2011 7:53:56 am PST #13456 of 28282

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have a bunch of e-reader apps on my iPhone and I never use any of them. (Kindle, Nook, iBooks, Stanza...maybe one other one?)

I love reading on the Kindle, but I think mine may be dead. It's a first-gen I bought used for $75, and unfortunately I can't afford to replace it with a new one, so I'm hoping I can bring it back to life or maybe just replace the battery.

Gudanov - Jan 07, 2011 8:03:22 am PST #13457 of 28282

Coding and Sleeping

Well, my 4G Touch will work for e-books, but I'd never call it a replacement for an e-reader.

DebetEsse - Jan 07, 2011 10:14:38 am PST #13458 of 28282

Woe to the fucking wicked.

The nice thing about iBooks is that it will accept pdfs, so I put knitting patterns and the like from the Internet on there, so I can get at them, even when I have no wifi.

Ginger - Jan 07, 2011 10:23:14 am PST #13459 of 28282

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The Case of the First Mystery Novelist [link]

Scrappy - Jan 07, 2011 11:28:06 am PST #13460 of 28282

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

That was wicked cool, Ginger!

Ginger - Jan 07, 2011 12:03:50 pm PST #13461 of 28282

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Isn't it? I may have to figure out how to read it.

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