See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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."


Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2013 1:26:39 pm PST #20349 of 28350
brillig

I hope B&N doesn't go down, when I replace my Nook I don't want to have to get a Kindle.


Consuela - Jan 29, 2013 3:15:14 pm PST #20350 of 28350
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

There are at least four bookstores in Pt. Townsend, which i find rather surprising.


Atropa - Jan 29, 2013 4:17:08 pm PST #20351 of 28350
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I want old card catalog cabinets. I have no place to put them, but oh! I want them. I'd store all sorts of things in them: sewing notions, bottles of ink, bottles of perfume, scarves and jabots ...

Hi, my name is Jilli, and I have a problem with storage cabinets.


meara - Jan 29, 2013 4:24:54 pm PST #20352 of 28350

I also loved being able to see who had previously checked out a book and when (especially in school libraries where I probably knew the person...or was the person who'd checked it out before!)

But I will gladly trade that for the brave new world of having hundreds of books on my kindle. Makes travel so very much better. Never again the packing half my bag with books and still worrying I'll run out halfway through a flight...


Atropa - Jan 29, 2013 4:25:46 pm PST #20353 of 28350
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

But I will gladly trade that for the brave new world of having hundreds of books on my kindle. Makes travel so very much better. Never again the packing half my bag with books and still worrying I'll run out halfway through a flight...

Yeah, I love the Kindle app on my phone. And I, too, knew the worry of running out of reading material halfway through a trip.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 29, 2013 4:35:11 pm PST #20354 of 28350
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have an old card catalog, but you have to line the drawers, because the bottoms aren't solid once you remove the metal pipe that went through the cards. Still nice, though


Liese S. - Jan 29, 2013 4:51:46 pm PST #20355 of 28350
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, seriously, the advent of ebooks has literally halved my travel luggage. I didn't even take a backup paperback this last flight. Shock!

I think if I could see the records at freelibrary, I am about every fourth person who checks out all the Pratchett books. I am in the process of buying them, but I already owned them, so I am a little slow at doing it. But other than it being dumb to have to redownload instead of being able to just reauthorize, I don't see any harm in continually checking them out. I mean, other than that someone else can't be reading them while I have them checked out. But I'm a fast reader, and I hit the return button, so it's not long.


Cass - Jan 29, 2013 6:56:27 pm PST #20356 of 28350
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Hi, my name is Jilli, and I have a problem with storage cabinets.

My parents have what is something like an apothecary cabinet / card catalog cabinet and I have called dibs on it. It's not real and it's not valuable. I just really like it. And I spent a lot of time in libraries. All that information and you could just bounce from one to the next. It was like a printed internet full of potential links to new information.

(They also have a glass double inkwell. Which I also called dibs on. Mostly I just feared they'd randomly get rid of things thinking no one cared. I grew up with us being a polling location on election days and playing with the inkwell. I want it.)


Atropa - Jan 31, 2013 9:41:03 am PST #20357 of 28350
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Which thread should I ask about Kindles in? This one or Tech? I'm finally thinking of getting myself one, and am not sure which I want.


sumi - Jan 31, 2013 9:44:46 am PST #20358 of 28350
Art Crawl!!!

Jilli! Pete's Kickstarter Project was one of their "Projects We Love"!