Thanks, Deena!
Gris, the manual tells you how to get PDFs on. But not where they show up on the navigation. They don't look amazing, but they're readable. It's a definite step up from my phone.
Sex with robots is more common than most people think.
Spike ,'Lineage'
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§ ita § - Sep 30, 2010 4:44:22 am PDT #15052 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Strix - Sep 30, 2010 4:57:41 am PDT #15053 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
ita, I buy ebooks from B&N, so I would be happy to lend you, too.
The Lendme books I have are Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Graceling by Kristin Cashore, Under Heaven, by Guy Gavriel Kay, a bunch of Ariana Franklin books, some Yasmine Galenorn, Nailini Singh, Richelle Mead, Patricia Briggs, and Charlain Harris.
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2010 7:51:24 am PDT #15054 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Erin, when I get home I will send you email from my BN account email. Cool beans.
Liese S. - Sep 30, 2010 8:48:30 am PDT #15055 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yay. The Nook would definitely be on my list. I handled one last time I was in a city, and I liked it a lot. It was actually a plus for me that the main screen wasn't touch (smudges!) but that there was a small section that was.
And yeah, about the Amazon thing. I decided I was being ridic and caved and bought some emergency supplies for my new car from Amazon. The entire process was a clusterfuck, down to them splitting the order really randomly and shipping via completely different couriers. Thereby sending stuff by post office to my physical address, which does not get US mail, forcing my little post office to bewilderedly try to find me and have me come in and pick it up. Twice. So yeah, boycott back on. If I'm avoiding you for tech reasons, but also your service sucks it? You are not getting my business no matter how gargantuan you are.
Strix - Sep 30, 2010 6:35:09 pm PDT #15056 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
No problem, chica. Happy to help a Bitch out.
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2010 7:07:54 pm PDT #15057 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Insent, Erin.
eta: Having finished my first book on the device (Hunger Games)I can happily say it was a pleasing reading experience. I'm predisposed to read the digital word. I've purchased a cheapie I'm almost finished, and am still ploughing through some free stuff, as well as what can be borrowed out there...so far I'm happy with what I have.
I found decals to make it look like HAL, and then I'll need a protective sleeve.
Gris - Oct 01, 2010 3:44:05 am PDT #15058 of 25501
Hey. New board.
If you like SF/Fantasy, there are a lot of free books available from Baen books (their goal is to addict you to their authors. It kind of works.) and you can buy books from them for a bit cheaper than the Amazon/BN stores too.
§ ita § - Oct 01, 2010 6:14:24 am PDT #15059 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nook book borrowing rocks! I can't wait to lend people stuff.
I'll be sure to traipse on over to Baen.
§ ita § - Oct 01, 2010 6:24:01 am PDT #15060 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister has been having trouble with Yahoo mail, and is wondering if there was anything else out there good other than gmail. I hadn't really thought about it--any other solid providers?
Gudanov - Oct 01, 2010 6:39:17 am PDT #15061 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Google has come up with a new image format, WebP, to compete with JPEG.
It actually sounds pretty good.
In order to gauge the effectiveness of our efforts, we randomly picked about 1,000,000 images from the web (mostly JPEGs and some PNGs and GIFs) and re-encoded them to WebP without perceptibly compromising visual quality. This resulted in an average 39% reduction in file size.