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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.
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.
Nook book borrowing rocks! I can't wait to lend people stuff.
I'll be sure to traipse on over to Baen.
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?
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.
ita, once I sort out my BN username, I'd be happy to loan you books as well. My tastes run pretty clearly in mystery and suspense (big surprise) but I think I do have Freedom (TM).
My list isn't long, so I am happy to post it and anyone who wants I'll loan. I didn't even know about this feature until someone here mentioned it. I get the books take out the DRM and put them on my kindle so I can read them.
That would be awesome. I listed most of my books, but I'd be happy to post a full list, so we can do a Buffista Lend thing.
Love the lib, but the wait list for some newer books is crazy; if I could get at some of 'em sooner, that would be great.
Nook book borrowing rocks!
Who would want to borrow rocks...oh, wait. Anyway, yay for book lending! That's so awesome.
Ok, here are my LendMe books.
Note: if you have a B&N account, but not a Nook, you can lend and read, too.
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games – ibid
Graceling – Kristin Cashore
Bonds of Justice – Nalini Singh
Archangel's Kiss - ibid
Bullet – Laurell K. Hamilton (I was weak.) Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey
Under Heaven – Guy Gavriel Kay
Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris
Dead and Gone - ibid
A Catch of Consequence – Diane Norman
A Murderous Procession – Ariana Franklin
Grave Goods – ibid
The Serpents's Tale – ibid
Mistress of the Art of Death – ibid
Bone Magic – Yasmine Galenorn
Demon Mistress – ibid
Thorn Queen – Richelle Mead
Succubus Shadows – ibid
Silver Borne – Patricia Briggs
Alien Taste – Wen Spencer
(xposted with Literary)
All of this talk makes me actually want to open the sony e-reader that I got for Christmas. It seems like it would be a good gift for me, but I like paper. And I like owning books, it's why I don't generally go to the library. If I read a book and I like it, I generally want to own it. But, if I've already read it, I don't want to spend money on it. So, I'd rather buy it and roll the dice. My issues, let me show you them.