Yay, indeed!
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'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."
Consuela - Aug 26, 2012 9:45:55 am PDT #19578 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Connie Neil - Aug 26, 2012 10:16:01 am PDT #19579 of 28343
brillig
Let the casting speculation begin.
JZ - Aug 27, 2012 4:46:44 am PDT #19580 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Free audiobook today from Amazon:
Colin Firth's unabridged reading of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. Depressing as all hell, but it must sound utterly gorgeous.
Vonnie K - Aug 27, 2012 8:36:23 am PDT #19581 of 28343
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
My super-cheap refurbished Kindle ($48! Whatta steal) just arrived last Friday and I already bought like 6 books. I buy from Amazon as a rule anyway and it's just so easy to click on that one-click button. Presto, instant gratification! I am gonna have to work on exercising some restraint, I see. Why have't I gotten it ages ago???
Consuela - Aug 27, 2012 8:44:31 am PDT #19582 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am gonna have to work on exercising some restraint, I see. Why have't I gotten it ages ago???
The way to exercise restraint is to load Calibre on your laptop and fill the Kindle up with free books from Project Gutenberg. (And fic from AO3!)
Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2012 8:46:40 am PDT #19583 of 28343
brillig
And if you're willing to go into grey areas, Gutenberg Australia has books from a later date range than American Gutenberg. ManyBooks has, well, many books as well.
Vonnie K - Aug 27, 2012 8:50:33 am PDT #19584 of 28343
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I heard about Calibre and AO3 and fic. Is there a step-by-step how-to guide>? Because I am too lazy to try to work it out myself.
I bought the third Song of Ice and Fire books just this morning because I have the paperback but that sucker is THICK and I've been stuck in the middle of that book for ages. Having it so easily accessible may be the way to finally get me to finish it...
Consuela - Aug 27, 2012 8:56:54 am PDT #19585 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Load Calibre on your computer.
Go to AO3 and download fic in MOBI format.
Drag fic file to Calibre, where Calibre might get the author name and title confused.
This next step kind of depends on the software and the Kindle--it worked with my old Kindle, but not the Kindle Fire. Plug the Kindle into the laptop. Calibre will recognize it and you should be able to click a button that says "save to device" or something like that, and the book (or fic) will be saved to the Kindle.
The other option is to use Amazon's email process, but I don't really know how that works, haven't tried to do it. Someone else can certainly advise, I think.
The big issue is that everything you want to put on the Kindle must be in MOBI format, and not everything comes that way. But Calibre can convert damn near everything into MOBI, including .doc, .txt, and .html files.
Liese S. - Aug 27, 2012 9:03:15 am PDT #19586 of 28343
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I need to rework my whole collection. I love Calibre so much, because it makes this easy. But someone gave me a bunch of paper books over the summer and I am working my way through them.
Although I felt all first-world problemy about them. Oh, this book is so HEAVY! I have to HOLD THE PAGES OPEN! Woe! Seriously, my Nook is the best thing in the world.
Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2012 9:28:19 am PDT #19587 of 28343
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I have the entire Lord of the Rings on my Nook. I feel competent to outlast a nuclear holocaust now. Now I need a solar powered method to recharge the Nook.