I'm struggling with the whole "not buying new books" until I've read some of the ones I own. There are so many I need want, precioussssss.
Me too. Right now I am trying to restrict myself to $20 a month, but it is still hard.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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."
sj - Jan 12, 2011 8:11:03 am PST #13566 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2011 8:41:16 am PST #13567 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have been buying so many books, both print and non-print. And now I have to send my Nook in to be replaced! The screen is messed up. They don't cross ship. I don't want to be away from it that long...
javachik - Jan 12, 2011 8:48:02 am PST #13568 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
I definitely don't want to do a "na na na Kindle is better" thing, but just as a data point: I didn't buy a cover (and was just kind of tossing it into my laptop bag and/or purse) for my second Kindle, and the screen started doing an etchasketch thing where the ink started staying permanently. I called Amazon and they overnighted me a new one, and I had 90 days to send in my old one. I was impressed. Free shipping both ways.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2011 9:23:07 am PST #13569 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently the system transfer stuff is mandatory, so no cross-shipping. It is free both ways--I just have to drop mine off at a brick and mortar store.
Though I'm unsure if I need to back up my stuff from it myself. I will, though.
Amy - Jan 12, 2011 9:24:27 am PST #13570 of 28282
Because books.
That's a little disappointing to hear, ita -- you haven't had it that long, right?
I keep going back on forth on which I'd like better, because I think I definitely want one at this point.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2011 10:44:57 am PST #13571 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, just since the end of November. So tidily within warranty.
I am irritated with something that seems to have happened since my last update--how it stores the last page I've read of something. Before, I could bounce back in a book and then go to the last bit I'd gotten to with no problem (useful when a character turns up and I need to search back for them). Now there's a "store last page read at BN.com" feature. Which, uh, if I'm in Jamaica doesn't do me much good unless I'm a wifi spot. So I was kinda lost.
If I'm in the US, it means pages flipped on my phone get flipped on the Nook, which is cool. But it is a subtraction in foreign.
Atropa - Jan 12, 2011 11:01:46 am PST #13572 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm struggling with the whole "not buying new books" until I've read some of the ones I own.
I'm going to fail at that this weekend, because Ellen Schrieber (the author of Vampire Kisses ) is in town doing a signing for her new werewolf series. I'm going to see her because frivolous distraction will be REALLY GOOD for me right now.
Speaking of frivolous distraction reading, I should start reading the big annotated version of Varney The Vampire that I was given for Christmas.
Polter-Cow - Jan 12, 2011 11:04:20 am PST #13573 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha! Cleolinda has been posting about that book.
Atropa - Jan 12, 2011 11:06:11 am PST #13574 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Ha! Cleolinda has been posting about that book.
I know! It was her posting that made me go poke around Amazon to see if there was a compiled, annotated version. Lo, there WAS, and Santa brought it to me. Cleo said she was very envious.
sj - Jan 12, 2011 11:15:48 am PST #13575 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm going to fail at that this weekend, because Ellen Schrieber (the author of Vampire Kisses ) is in town doing a signing for her new werewolf series. I'm going to see her because frivolous distraction will be REALLY GOOD for me right now.
New series? Yup, my resolution is doomed.