I Love Kindle

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Got a Kindle for Christmas.

Bought 3 outta print books for $15. The used price for all of them is $262.00!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Anyone been to a library lately?

 

[Liar]

Dint you make a thread the other week lamenting the death of paper books?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Anyone been to a library lately?

Me! Everthang aint on Kindle yet.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Dint you make a thread the other week lamenting the death of paper books?

Only Fahrenheit 451...

 

[JohnnySavage]

I got a Kindle several years ago and something happened where the battery wouldn't take a charge anymore, so I went back to paper books. This Christmas I got an iPad and now I have iBooks, Kindle boos and Nook books. I have too many books to read now! (All but one were under 5 bucks)

 

[MonaLittle]

I got a Kindle several years ago and something happened where the battery wouldn't take a charge anymore, so I went back to paper books. This Christmas I got an iPad and now I have iBooks, Kindle boos and Nook books. I have too many books to read now! (All but one were under 5 bucks)

I remember the day *we* got our kindles. Mine is still running great!!
You got a lemon

Regarding iPad: I do not like mine. I dont use it. I could never get used to not having a *real* keyboard. Makes typing hard. I love some things hard...typing is not one of them

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm just now finishing my last 2010 Christmas book...

 

[MonaLittle]

I'm just now finishing my last 2010 Christmas book...

slow is good at some things. Not at reading

 

[JohnnySavage]

I remember the day *we* got our kindles. Mine is still running great!!
You got a lemon

Regarding iPad: I do not like mine. I dont use it. I could never get used to not having a *real* keyboard. Makes typing hard. I love some things hard...typing is not one of them

I did get a lemon! I loved it while it lasted though.

As for the iPad - I don't really see the need for it, but it's an interesting toy.

 

[MonaLittle]

I did get a lemon! I loved it while it lasted though.

As for the iPad - I don't really see the need for it, but it's an interesting toy.

I have mine packed in my bag for work. I use it almost everyday. I, too, love it.

I have to go back to work today Boo.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I have mine packed in my bag for work. I use it almost everyday. I, too, love it.

I have to go back to work today Boo.

I have a desktop at work, a desktop at home, a laptop, a smart phone, and now an iPad. I'm way too connected.

And I've been at work for two hours already.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

slow is good at some things. Not at reading

I read really, really fast.

I just had too many books...

 

[trysail]

Anyone been to a library lately?

Are you kidding? I go at least once a week— frequently more.



Anything that's truly worth reading is best preserved and read in hard copy.

 

[MonaLittle]

I have a desktop at work, a desktop at home, a laptop, a smart phone, and now an iPad. I'm way too connected.

And I've been at work for two hours already.

2 hours???? WTF!
Dump all of the pc's except for the Laptop. It's all you need.
That's a little MonaTip for you.

I read really, really fast.

I just had too many books...

Evelyn woods??

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Are you kidding? I go at least once a week— frequently more.



Anything that's truly worth reading is best preserved and read in hard copy.

I don't read cuneiform on sandstone...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

...
Evelyn woods??

No, early to mid-sixties liberal curriculum that taught the more advanced students speed reading with a machine that showed one line at a time with ever increasing speed so that you learned to read just one line at a time which is why I have a real dislike of screen stretchers who think a picture is a thousand words and a really big picture 10,000...

 

[trysail]

2 hours???? WTF!
Dump all of the pc's except for the Laptop. It's all you need.

...and what of the 2,713 Excel spreadsheets containing massive amounts of data ?



Some of us use computers for data-intensive analytical and calculation purposes— and don't start with this "cloud" shit. Been there, done that; not doing it again for Big Brother's benefit.

 

[JohnnySavage]

...and what of the 2,713 Excel spreadsheets containing massive amounts of data ?



Some of us use computers for data-intensive analytical and calculation purposes— and don't start with this "cloud" shit. Been there, done that; not doing it again for Big Brother's benefit.

There's a program... or 'app' if you will, called Dropbox, that I'm finding pretty handy.

 

[Honey123]

I love my Kindle as well....I need to get some interesting books and start reading again...

 

[trysail]

Evelyn woods??

Uh, oh. You're revealing a serious handicap; you're obviously age-deficient.

 

[trysail]

There's a program... or 'app' if you will, called Dropbox, that I'm finding pretty handy.

Thankee, kindly. Unfortunately that sounds like it would require ownership of an i-Pad/Phone or a Droid.

There are three people in the U.S. without a cellphone. I'm one of them. Last year, my telephone service ( which is 100% reliable— no dropped calls, no incoherency ) cost precisely $380.06. People forget that the world got along perfectly well without cellphones for millenia.


While I may appear a Luddite, the fact of the matter is that I'm just a good ol' fashioned tightwad.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Thankee, kindly. Unfortunately that sounds like it would require ownership of an i-Pad/Phone or a Droid.

There are three people in the U.S. without a cellphone. I'm one of them. Last year, my telephone service ( which is 100% reliable— no dropped calls, no incoherency ) cost precisely $380.06. People forget that the world got along perfectly well without cellphones for millenia.


While I may appear a Luddite, the fact of the matter is that I'm just a good ol' fashioned tightwad.

Dropbox isn't tied to any platform. It's basically an off-site storage service where you can put files and have access to them from any web-enabled computer. It's a simple improvement over e-mailing files to yourself to work on somewhere else.

2GB of free storage. I've gone from thumb drives, to emailing stuff to myself, to google docs, to Dropbox. It's not a new concept, just a cleaner one.

 

[CandiCame]

Me to! I've given this same speach a thousand times, so I'm just gonna hit the bullet points.

Green-green-sali-beam.
Saving paper is good.
They use so little electricity.
You don't have to store a library to own a library.
The only pansy thing about me is that I have a cover pack that makes it look like a book. But I'm always taking it out to hold it easier and getting fingerprints all over it.

 

[trysail]

Dropbox isn't tied to any platform. It's basically an off-site storage service where you can put files and have access to them from any web-enabled computer. It's a simple improvement over e-mailing files to yourself to work on somewhere else.

2GB of free storage. I've gone from thumb drives, to emailing stuff to myself, to google docs, to Dropbox. It's not a new concept, just a cleaner one.

Gotcha. Thanks.