Books? Screw 'em!

[jomar]

Not really. But I thought I'd have more trouble transitioning to an ereader. But I love reading on my iPad, especially since I'm reading the Game of Thrones tomes.

I guess I should have suspected since I moved to a gas fireplace without a hitch.

I suppose there's an app to give my iPad that book like smell.

 

[lovecraft68]

Not really. But I thought I'd have more trouble transitioning to an ereader. But I love reading on my iPad, especially since I'm reading the Game of Thrones tomes.

I guess I should have suspected since I moved to a gas fireplace without a hitch.

I suppose there's an app to give my iPad that book like smell.

Just light one of these

 

[jomar]

Ha! I do sort of miss the smell and snap, crackle and pop of a wood fire over the flap, flap, flap of gas logs. The house I just moved into has a wall switch for crying out loud.

 

[patientlee]

Not really. But I thought I'd have more trouble transitioning to an ereader. But I love reading on my iPad, especially since I'm reading the Game of Thrones tomes.

I guess I should have suspected since I moved to a gas fireplace without a hitch.

I suppose there's an app to give my iPad that book like smell.

I can wholeheartedly recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. Smaller, lighter, easier for me to hold than the iPad.

 

[3113]

Not really. But I thought I'd have more trouble transitioning to an ereader. But I love reading on my iPad

I'm with you. I love not having to use odd clips to hold open a paperback while enjoying my lunch. I just prop up my iPad and read, no smudging the pages (smudged glass easily cleaned). AND I can highlight and make notes on it, no searching for a pen, no fretting about marring the pages as I always did while reading costly hardbacks. I can enlarge small print, and get good look at photos and illustrations...

Not to say there aren't drawbacks. There are times when the reading program can glitch and race ahead through pages and pages before I can stop it—and if I haven't marked the page I was on, it might be hard to get back to it. And there are a lot of books I want to read aren't digitized, so I can't sell off my paper copies yet. Also, buying new books...well, if it's not in digital form, I probably won't buy it. (I suppose this is kinda good as it's kept me from a lot of impulse book buying and and thus, saves me money). But this is as much a matter of space as ease-of-reading issue. I really don't have space for any more paper books. The shelves are overflowing as is.

Of course, I also can't sell back digital books I don't like. Or loan a book I love to friends. And, finally, there was that day I forgot to re-charge my iPad and right in the middle of a read I was warned that the power was down to 20% and falling fast. The re-charge cord I had on me was too short—I now have a long one.

Nevertheless, I love, love, love carrying around a library of all my favorite books and magazines and movies and tv shows come to that in one thin, electronic package.

 

[3113]

I can wholeheartedly recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. Smaller, lighter, easier for me to hold than the iPad.

And I can whole heartedly recommend the iPad mini or Air if you want something smaller and lighter and easier to hold than the regular iPad I have the Air and a more beautiful device I never did see.

 

[3113]

Just light one of these

Heck, why not just use this?

 

[jomar]

I can wholeheartedly recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. Smaller, lighter, easier for me to hold than the iPad.

Does look pretty sharp, about the size of a paperback. So far the way I uses the iPad works well,but will keep it in mind for later. Thanks.

 

[jomar]

And I can whole heartedly recommend the iPad mini or Air if you want something smaller and lighter and easier to hold than the regular iPad I have the Air and a more beautiful device I never did see.

Mine is the Air and it is my precious.

Also, like you said I don't have to use what looks like a blackjack anymore!

 

[Euphony]

I can go much longer on my Kindle than Ipads. Something about the milder lighting makes the kindle perfect for me (better than even real paper)

But a magazine on the Ipad... a more beautiful more functional more searchable bit of periodical has never been seen.

I wonder how it handles "centerfolds" though. Hmm...

 

[sr71plt]

I suppose as soon as I've read through the 800 print books already purchased and not yet read I may think of buying an e-reader.

 

[jomar]

I suppose as soon as I've read through the 800 print books already purchased and not yet read I may think of buying an e-reader.

Yeah, I have a six foot by six foot bookcase chock full of unread books. I figure I can fall back on them if there is appear outage.

Power outage...lit is acting funny on the edit...

 

[PennLady]

I have a 3d generation Kindle and although I'm not reading much at the moment, I love reading on that. I also have an iPad mini and put the Kindle app on it, but I prefer the e-ink screen on the Kindle.

My son has a NookTablet, and although he reads a lot of print books, he reads a fair bit on that as well. I just read to my daughter before bed on the iPad, in fact.

I don't think ebooks will replace print any time real soon, but I do like them.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yeah, I have a six foot by six foot bookcase chock full of unread books. I figure I can fall back on them if there is appear outage.

Power outage...lit is acting funny on the edit...

Whew! Good thing you said that was a mistake, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get any Pears!

 

[3113]

I wonder how it handles "centerfolds" though. Hmm...

Now there's a thought. Though neither iTunes nor Amazon has any of those sorts of magazines—I'm sure, however, they're being sold by someone for iPad viewing....

 

[3113]

Oh, and another benefit of ebooks...recipes. Oh, hooray for the digital world when it comes to recipes. The other day I had out a recipe for one of my fave salad dressings. Turns out it requires mayo and it turns out I had none. Not to worry, a quick switch from recipe to internet and there was a demo reminding me how to make mayo (I knew the ingredients, but not the proportions). I made some and continued on with the dressing recipe.

I only wish more of these books, especially the biographies/cookbooks were more interactive. I have an awesome cookbook that has interactive parts and it's great to see the authors actually making the recipe. I think they should re-issue "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" with episodes of the French Chef.

 

[sr71plt]

So (speaking of mayo), what goes into Thousand Island dressing?

We were leaving a restaurant above the Holmenkollen a bunch of years ago (the Olympic ski jump in Oslo, Norway) and the chef met us at the door and asked for assurances that we were Americans. Poor man was wringing his hands. We confirmed we were and he asked us how to make Thousand Island dressing, because some ugly American in the restaurant was insisting on having it. My suggestion of what to serve the American was met with a gasp, so I said just to put some catsup and pickle relish in some mayo and that would do. When we got back to the embassy, we tried that. It wouldn't do (but it served the ugly American right). Never did figure out what really goes into it.

 

[3113]

so I said just to put some catsup and pickle relish in some mayo and that would do.

Close. You left out the white vinegar and, in some recipes, a little sugar. Sometimes the recipes forgo vinegar and add in sour cream instead. Some forgo mayo and use a combination of buttermilk and sour cream. But if one is going to use just mayo, then a small amount of white vinegar is needed in addition to the relish and catsup.

And my sympathies to that poor chef. It was above and beyond the call of duty for him to cater to such a bully whatever the bully's nationality.

 

[sr71plt]

Close. You left out the white vinegar and, in some recipes, a little sugar. Sometimes the recipes forgo vinegar and add in sour cream instead. Some forgo mayo and use a combination of buttermilk and sour cream. But if one is going to use just mayo, then a small amount of white vinegar is needed in addition to the relish and catsup.

And my sympathies to that poor chef. It was above and beyond the call of duty for him to cater to such a bully whatever the bully's nationality.

Eggs. I think someone told me once that eggs were involved too. Not so?

That wasn't the last time we were asked to help a restaurant cater to an ugly American. In Panama once I was asked what went into a Waldorf Salad. I think I got closer on that one by saying they could get by just by tossing chunks of apple, walnuts, celery, and some raisins together in mayo.

 

[3113]

Eggs. I think someone told me once that eggs were involved too. Not so?

Outside of the mayo (which is, typically, egg yolks, mustard, lemon juice and/or white wine vinegar and oil), no, no additional eggs in Thousand Island. But then, if one didn't have mayo, you'd do exactly what I did with that other salad dressing recipe and recreate it. Either separately, or by adding egg yolks, extra vinegar and oil to the recipe.

So the recipe for Thousand Island (if one didn't have mayo) would be:
Egg yolks
White vinegar
Oil
Catsup
Relish
And maybe a little sugar depending on how you like your thousand Island.

A lot of the recipes also add finely chopped onion and sometimes a dash of Worcestershire or paprika.

I was asked what went into a Waldorf Salad. I think I got closer on that one by saying they could get by just by tossing chunks of apple, walnuts, celery, and some raisins together in mayo.

Yep. All you were missing there was a squeeze of lemon—and some would argue for grapes over raisins, but it's right either way. The Waldorf is a simple salad.

 

[tiny_tits]

I can wholeheartedly recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. Smaller, lighter, easier for me to hold than the iPad.

^^^^ This

 

[Hypoxia]

OP: I am a lifelong book freak. I have essentially lived in libraries most of my life. One of my job titles was Librarian. I love paper.

And I'm dumping it. I spent half my life accumulating books and I'm spending the other half ridding myself of them. I'll keep the sheet music, the photo and art books, the vintage texts (like a 1712 Daniel Defoe edition), the charts, and stuff that may never be digitized.

Otherwise, I live with my Vizio Android 8-inch tablet, and with the terabytes of reading matter I've downloaded. Piles of eBooks from mostly legal sources. And infinitely more are available. (I love the LIT Android app too.)

Electrons are lightweight. I used to car-travel with box-loads of books, for entertainment and education and guidance. Now it's just the tablet; a portable 1-TB drive loaded with books; and a mini-laptop for downloading more, and for transferring from the drive to the tablet, and as a backup reader. Total weight: five pounds, not fifty or five hundred.

Yes, I'll always keep SOME paper books around. For power outages, mostly. Read by candlelight. Also, as emergency toilet tissue. I'll wipe my butt with reactionary propaganda, no problem.

 

[JKendallDane]

So long as I have a thrift shop only a few blocks away that lets you fill a large paper grocery bag with books for $3.00, I will continue to be happy with the "antique method" of reading actual paper.

 

[sr71plt]

Just one point (from one who worked with microfiche decades ago and Rocketbooks at the start of the-book age). Don't count on your electronic versions to last and be readable like print is. If you have favorite books you always want to have, I'd have to suggest hard copy.

 

[JagFarlane]

The wife loves her Kindle and has found several authors that she now follows because she can get their e-books cheaper. That said, for favorite authors we prefer hard copy. There's just nothing like the feel and smell of a real book.