I read Skymall during take-off. But I don't just read it. First, I look for the most egregiously horrible item in the issue. On the flight back from Minneapolis on Friday, I selected this [link] Then I try to figure out who would buy certain insane items and why.
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
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."
Scrappy - Nov 06, 2011 5:45:47 am PST #16788 of 28282
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Amy - Nov 06, 2011 5:47:32 am PST #16789 of 28282
Because books.
SANTA ATE CHRISTMAS!!!
Jesse - Nov 06, 2011 5:51:55 am PST #16790 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ha!
amyth - Nov 06, 2011 7:21:53 am PST #16791 of 28282
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Whoa.
beth b - Nov 06, 2011 7:56:41 am PST #16792 of 28282
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Ummmm...
DawnK - Nov 06, 2011 12:50:37 pm PST #16793 of 28282
giraffe mode
Oh my...that's certainly something (I'm pretty sure egregiously horrible fits the bill)
Burrell - Nov 06, 2011 2:08:25 pm PST #16794 of 28282
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Then I try to figure out who would buy certain insane items and why.
Belinda is lonely?
le nubian - Nov 07, 2011 2:53:08 am PST #16795 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Scrappy - dayum.
Gris - Nov 07, 2011 7:26:05 am PST #16796 of 28282
Hey. New board.
But still, yay! Drew has been waiting to borrow books from my kindle for ages. One a month total, though? Not so yay.
This is different. Lending a Kindle book you have purchased to somebody else is just like the Nook: I believe you can lend each book you have purchased exactly one time, for up to 2 weeks at a time. Some books don't let you do it, but most do. And I don't think there's a restriction on how often you can lend/borrow, if you're doing different books each time.
The Lending Library is something else again: Amazon is essentially allowing you to borrow books from them with different rules. Those are the once-a-month but as long as you want borrows. I read that Amazon is actually paying the publishers each time a book is borrowed, essentially eating the cost of the books, at least right now. They're trying to convince the publishers that it could bring in revenue somehow.
Meg and I simply share an Amazon account so we don't have to use the lend feature to lend books to each other. But I have lended Kindle books to friends now and again.
§ ita § - Nov 07, 2011 7:28:48 am PST #16797 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can share an Amazon account across two Kindles? I mean, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to--I have my Nook library loaded on all my devices except my PC, and that's because I never relax with it. But it's on 5 others.