Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


P.M. Marc - Jan 05, 2012 9:34:27 am PST #14544 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Me three.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 05, 2012 9:34:55 am PST #14545 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have SOOO much work to do that I can't even work as I am so unfocused. I really need to hire a student, because this is the cause of me having so much work.


Ginger - Jan 05, 2012 9:37:38 am PST #14546 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

My library hasn't lost any books since it went to a computer system with bar codes. They scan them in before they go on the cart. I managed to lose one, though.

The library started lending ebooks through Overdrive about two weeks ago, but they have a limitation on how many people can "check out" a book at a time, even though there's no physical reason for that. Everything I wanted to check out I would have had to put on hold, which sort of defeated the impulse factor.


Steph L. - Jan 05, 2012 9:39:28 am PST #14547 of 30001
That which does not kill you should RUN

they have a limitation on how many people can "check out" a book at a time, even though there's no physical reason for that.

I think they buy a certain number of "copies" (licenses, I assume) of a given e-book, so in effect it's like checking out an analog book -- if all 3,000 copies of Breaking Dawn are checked out, then #3,001 has to wait.


askye - Jan 05, 2012 9:41:16 am PST #14548 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

I have pdf crochet patterns on my Kindle. They work out well and I can change the size to make it more readable. Not in color, since it's a touch but that's okay.

Dad got me this for Christmas and I like it way more than I thought. I've only bought 1 full price book (V is for Vengeance) and the rest have been free or really cheap. I have a bad habit of flipping to the end to see what happens and then getting bored and never finishing a book. I don't do that with the Kindle.

Also because my place is saved I find I'm not going back and rereading sections because I can't remember where I stopped. So it's easier for me to read a couple of pages of one book, then a few of another.


Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2012 9:42:46 am PST #14549 of 30001
brillig

I'm reading a whole lot more classic/old stuff than I have, because I can grab it off Gutenberg and ManyBooks when I get a yen for something, and it's easy to have three or four things in progress at once. "Hm, let's do a few more pages of Woman in White--no, no, Whose Body? just came out as a freebie, read that!--no, where's that long Harry/Draco fic, I want to re-read that one scene. Hm, where's that Austen I was thinking of reading? Oh! Jane Eyre!"

It's very decadent.


Gudanov - Jan 05, 2012 9:45:21 am PST #14550 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

I really like my e-reader (a primitive-seeming Sony), though I don't buy anything for it.

If you have calibre, you can very flexible about formats. I like turning things into ePub for reading since that's the format my reader plays best with. On my wife's kindle I've found that converting PDF to MOBI first makes for a much better experience.


Steph L. - Jan 05, 2012 9:46:08 am PST #14551 of 30001
That which does not kill you should RUN

converting PDF to MOBI

I just went to a Moby place. My brain ain't right.


sumi - Jan 05, 2012 9:47:03 am PST #14552 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Adorable dinosaur expert.


Steph L. - Jan 05, 2012 9:48:49 am PST #14553 of 30001
That which does not kill you should RUN

The technology thing I'm digging the most right now is that our new stereo has an iPod dock (yes, I know we are WAY behind the curve on this, but, well, that's how we roll [I won't even tell you how old our TV is]), and we can stream Pandora through the iPod Touch over wifi.

I have been listening to Vince Guaraldi radio pretty much nonstop for over a week. (With a break when Tim demanded we create a Cake station on Pandora. You get some interesting shit on the Cake station. A lot of Beck, for one.)