I see around there are many people from USA...maybe I'm the first italian to join mobileread... ;-)

I am lately looking around e-books because I am planning to buy one...just here because I find extremely good place to read impressions and change opinions between various ebooks.. :-)

Actually looks like from specs I find interesting the Astak Mentor one... also because I'm not such a wide-budget man when having lot more important expenses around but I realize having an e-Book today is very useful and very ecological! :-)

Ciao a tutti!
Luigi

ciao luigino !
benvenuto to mobileread. you can definitely find lots of information about different readers here. look in the wiki for some details and comparisons (link at the top left of the page). and if you have any specific questions, probably someone here will have an answer...

when you get your reader, look at the ebook upload section for a lot of free books as well !

Hello, Luigino, and welcome to MR. Please look around and ask. People are usually willing to help with any questions. Uh, but I also wanted to say that people don't usually answer the door quite like ZP did (hint: Zelda, put some clothes on, will ya?). Sorry. It's an aberration, I assure you.

Hi Luigi and welcome to the Forum.

Zelda you're fine! Don't be listening to vivaldirules.

Thanks to all... actually in fact I'm very interested on new Astak's Mentor product and I'm monitoring the thread... ;-)
An alternative are PRS-505 (when will cut down the price) or Nextronix EB100... (for me is enough to have SD support since I can upload there the books and read...)

actually in fact I'm very interested on new Astak's Mentor product and I'm monitoring the thread... ;-)
you're not the only one... :smiley:

[Zelda! A towel, please, huh? Sheesh. And right here in front of paying customers. Well, I guess we'll never see him again. Come on, take it to The Lounge.]

[Zelda! A towel, please, huh? Sheesh. And right here in front of paying customers. Well, I guess we'll never see him again. Come on, take it to The Lounge.]
paying customers ? vr, what have we told you about racketing the n00bs ?

Saluti da Canada!

I don't know who the first italian to join was, but you're not alone here! :2thumbsup

It has been said that Toronto and vicinity is home to the most italian descendants outside of Italy. That's where I was born and raised. :thumbsup:

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Welcome aboard!

ciao Nick.... lemme guess rapallo in your nick maybe is your "italian" last name?...

Anyway I figured out how much italians are present in canada when I visited Windsor and I saw there places and streets that have italian name like "Piazza Udine"! :-D

Zelda, maybe me and you could be the two first euopeans who will buy the Astak Mentor if it will be put in market with prices and with those improvements we suggested during the thread like rechargeable battery and so on... ;-)

Ciao!
Luigi

Zelda, maybe me and you could be the two first euopeans who will buy the Astak Mentor if it will be put in market with prices and with those improvements we suggested during the thread like rechargeable battery and so on... ;-)

Ciao!
Luigi
fingers crossed !

ciao Nick.... lemme guess rapallo in your nick maybe is your "italian" last name?...

Exactly.... Even though Rapallo is a nice seaside resort town beside Genova/Portofino in Northern Italy, my parents emigrated from Sicily.

Anyway I figured out how much italians are present in canada when I visited Windsor and I saw there places and streets that have italian name like "Piazza Udine"! :-D

There are many cities in the Province of Ontario (Canada) and New York State (USA) that have many Italian influences. And not just bad ones! :angry:

Zelda, maybe me and you could be the two first euopeans who will buy the Astak Mentor if it will be put in market with prices and with those improvements we suggested during the thread like rechargeable battery and so on... ;-)

Ciao!
Luigi

Ciao!
Nicola (his friends call him Nick)

Zelda,

maybe when arrived let's make cin-cin with some champagne for new ecological instrument arrived, even if you have already the EB1150! :-D

Nicola, I wish I could come in Canada again to visit at least a big town like toronto, but pple told me visiting Québec would be more awesome... :-D But since flight is already expensive so you bet about the whole journey (except going by tent in camping around.. :-D)

Ciao!
Luigi

you do cin-cin, i have to do tchin-tchin, because i don't speak italien ! :wink:

i'm always ready for champagne...

Nicola, I wish I could come in Canada again to visit at least a big town like toronto, but pple told me visiting Québec would be more awesome... :D But since flight is already expensive so you bet about the whole journey (except going by tent in camping around.. :D)

Ciao!
Luigi

The big cities here are much the same as those in Italy, like Rome, Milan, and even Palermo. It is outside the city core (downtown) that most live and these "suburbs" are more 'comfortable' to live in than the downtown core. :gossip:

Quebec has more European flair... :cool: Ontario is more reserved/British-like. ;)

And then you have "Little Italy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Italy,_Toronto) on College Street in Toronto where a half-century's old italian dialect can still be heard in everyday life...

maybe when arrived let's make cin-cin

Did he just proposition our little Zelda? We big brothers must step up and protect her honor. Harumph!

BOb

You know these Italians; all touchy-feelly and always closing that personal gap/space. :rolleyes:

But then again, the French are not shy in such ways; she was the first to repond to this thread... :o

*ahem.*

lest my virtue be besmirched : "cin-cin" (or "tchin-tchin" in french) :

http://www.weimax.com/images/Lubins_Bday_Dinner_A_Toast.gif

*ahem.*

lest my virtue be besmirched : "cin-cin" (or "tchin-tchin" in french) :


Erm, oh... um, well, nevermind! :rolleyes:

Anyway Québec would be a cute natural place to spend a vacation! :D

Zelda.... let's say the international "prosit" then :D

*ahem.*

lest my virtue be besmirched : "cin-cin" (or "tchin-tchin" in french) :

*** image censored***

Hey, what's with all those GUYS (those are sure rough & rugged hands) cheering themselves....

I thought Luigi and Zel... Erm, oh... um, well, nevermind!

pilotbob has left the building...

Uhm.... even if we haven't received the Astak Mentor ebook yet?.... :D

What do you think, Zelda, are we those two that are drinking to?.. :-)

What do you think, Zelda, are we those two that are drinking to?.. :-)

well, i can't speak for you, but i have less hair on my arms... :wink: prosit ! (and cin-tchin !)

well, i can't speak for you, but i have less hair on my arms... :wink: prosit ! (and cin-tchin !)

I don't know what is more intoxicating: All this talk of champagne or the hairless arms of the avatar bather in suds to zelda's left. :blush:

Quick, time for the "avatar changing thing" or else I will start to fell like the third-wheel....

I dunno. I'm thinking decorum. Manners. Simple handshakes. Sincere greetings. Those ought to be the elements of answering the door when welcoming new members to our forum. Instead, we have this hot poussin who's perhaps a little, well, "loose" (of mind, at least - I mean, she hangs around here, huh?) inviting the guy in for tchin-tchin and champagne while she's still completely nekkid (not even a towel) while Nick and BOb are talking about propositions and touchy-feelies (not necessarily...well, never mind). I think we need to review our official MR Forum Greeting Policy Handbook and make sure that it's up-to-date. Dale, is that in the Wiki somewhere?

Luigi, I want to sincerely apologize. Again, welcome. I assure you, this matter will be raised with the Forum Administrator and, hopefully, it won't happen again. It's really not like this around here all the time.

Luigi, I want to sincerely apologize. Again, welcome. I assure you, this matter will be raised with the Forum Administrator and, hopefully, it won't happen again. It's really not like this around here all the time.
pfff. actually, it really is.

Uhmmmmmmmmmmmm but but..... haven't you all thought that avatar couldn't be Zelda and she could be completely someone else than the avatar?? ;PPPPPP

(good point question mine one's, huh Zelda?)

aaah, the innocence of youth, before the rampant absurdity of the alternate dimension known as "The Lounge" has had a chance to corrupt the spirit...

luigi, take a look over here (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23033) if you want to know the true story of my avatar...

Zelda, you sent him to The Lounge!? Now he'll be lost for sure - just like the rest of us. He was probably a nice guy, too.

Zelda, you sent him to The Lounge!? Now he'll be lost for sure - just like the rest of us. He was probably a nice guy, too.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

i thought he deserved to know what he was getting into. especially since, in this instance, it's not so much a case of "sending him to the lounge" as of "giving a name to the unutterable silliness that had ambushed him almost from the moment of his arrival."

...the unutterable silliness that had ambushed him almost from the moment of his arrival."

Ahem. And, to whom, may I ask, do we thank for that, eh? Eh??

Ahem. And, to whom, may I ask, do we thank for that, eh? Eh??

ah, you, i beleive (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=179441&postcount=3).

EDIT : as usual.


(don't mind us, Luigi, just carry on learning about ebooks and such...)

Uhm I guess this evening I haven't gotten reading that thread, maybe it's the late time when neurons doesn't connect really... :P Maybe tomorrow I can read better :D

otherwise, Zelda, you can explain me here in few words what does come from your avatar :-)

Ahem. And, to whom, may I ask, do we thank for that, eh? Eh??

eh? EH? You mocking me and my entire tiny nation? :D

Uhm I guess this evening I haven't gotten reading that thread, maybe it's the late time when neurons doesn't connect really... :P Maybe tomorrow I can read better :D

otherwise, Zelda, you can explain me here in few words what does come from your avatar :-)

Actually, "when neurons don't connect" is precisely the right time to read it. It's all about "unutterable silliness".

Somebody started by making an avatar for Zelda_Pinwheel which had a Z and a P and a pinwheel. Then the silliness spread.... she is using the avatars one at a time and has now reached the "lady in the bubble bath" one. Cuz we were having a shower fight over there (in *another* unutterably silly thread).

Nevermind. We can be serious when we have to. But if you want silly, look around, cuz we can do that too!! :p