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.

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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.

Mac problem - just want to know if anyone else has experienced this. Computer is a 2004 G5.

Yesterday, out of the blue, the monitor wouldn't power up. I experimented a little and discovered that it will only work if none of the "extra" cables (USB/Firewire) are plugged in.

Anyone else had this happen, and if so, was it the monitor or the computer? (i.e., bad cables or bad ports)

I do have another monitor I can plug in to test, but it's heavy and I'm pregnant and I hate crawling under the desk.