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.
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.)
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.
Jilli! Pete's Kickstarter Project was one of their "Projects We Love"!
Holy crap! That'll teach me not to read the Kickstarter emails!
I think either one would be appropriate, Jilli! Although I think I did most of my Kindle talking in Tech.
Thanks P-C! I'll scoot over to Tech.
I started getting getting choked up when I was reading Augustus and Hazel's perfect dinner in Amsterdam.
It made me remember the first time I read a book that really gutted me and that was when I was reading
The World According to Garp
and I got to the part where Garp says, "I mith him."
Wait till you get to the end.
Wait till you get to the end.
I was getting choked up in
preparation
for the end.