I’m a little late in saying, “Hello.” Trust me, that’s nothing new for me. (Insert joke here about being late for own funeral.)

Over the years I have done many things from radio and television to programming and systems development. I spent a number of years running major projects for Government consulting firms. I have run my own company for the last few years and am currently involved in a high tech start-up.

I started in eBooks as we know them now back in the early 1990s with Adobe Acrobat Version 1. Initially it started with publishing a lot of Government reports and User Manuals and progressed as time went on.

A few years back I started reading stuff on my Palm equipped cell phone and developed a rather extensive library of material. Many PDBs were self created. (Would you believe an ISO-9000 manual on your phone?) When I first heard of e-ink and later the Sony Reader I knew that the days of the small coarse dot matrix screen were doomed.

Picked up a Reader about a week ago and joined here shortly thereafter.

Welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, thank you very much.

Yes, welcome on board ;)

Welcome, fellow Virginian! Greetings from the coastal plain of SE Virginia. Hope you enjoy this wonderful forum.

I'm having a lot of fum here (but more with the reader itself.) I am up in the Piedmont of Northern Virginia and remember fondly my time in the Tidewater area. In a long term test I wonder how well the Reader will survive in the near salt water environment. Will the chrome pieces become pitted? Time will tell.

Welcome to MobileRead, Good Master RWood!






(Now this is necroposting.)

(Now this is necroposting.)

yes. yes it is. :D

(welcome wood ! ;))

Well, I'm not going to formally welcome this RWood fellow until I'm sure he's not just some 'fly-by-night', 'here today, gone tomorrow' type.

Give it another 5 years, say.

ah, ever the prudent one, i see, bilbo. can't be too careful.

It never pays to be too precipitous!

:D

true, true ! we could all take a lesson from you. then again, you've only been here a few months yourself, i suppose i should really reserve my judgement on you for a while yet.

Fair enough. I guess by 2014 I'll have earned some trust! ;)

2014 ?? let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we ? ;)

Nah, this one looks a bit shifty to me. Sure, he looks all professor-y, but until I see a working prototype of a coconut-shortwave-radio, I'm reserving judgement.

Cheers,
Marc

Wise words all. One can never be too reserved in this here-today-gone-tomorrow world of the Internet. The sure bet of today is tomorrow's folly (or gibbon.) I do hope to stay around a bit.

They say that the people you meet in the next town are the same kind as there were in the town you just left behind. I sure hope not. Some of you know what I mean and I'll leave it at that.

Some of the religious beliefs here are a bit outside my past experience. Few I have known honor llamas, laddies, squirrels, or shums before the great alter of DRM. Some look to PD or CC as their salvation either on a 5" or a 6" e-ink screen as if a higher pixel count will result in quicker absolution.

I do understand the devotion to donuts -- who does not have a soft spot in their hearts for Krispy Kremes. The monthly pilgrimage on the second of each month seems about right. The endless variety of sacrificial donuts seems wonderful.

The random "meet-ups" remind me of the late 1960's "be-ins" with free love replaced by free books. Different strokes for different times.

You know, I just might give this game a ride.

Hiya Woodie and welcome to MobileRead. Are you related to the RWood who shows up at our NOVA Meet Ups. No wait.....

Welcome to MobileRead, RWood!

We're a friendly lot with loads of great information to share about ereading. Don't be shy about asking questions and jumping into the fray! Oh, and be sure to check out all the wonderful free ebooks you can download right here at MR. Enjoy!

Happy Reading!

Congratulations on your 7000th post, Wood! ;)

Yeah, welcome. If you play your cards right, they'll make you a moderator here and then you have the chance to have such classic rules as, "Don't touch the red button and we mean you pshrynk!" named after you.

:thanks:

Thanks folks, you make me feel like I've been here for years.

:iloveyou:

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:thanks:

Thanks folks, you make me feel like I've been here for years.

:iloveyou:

:knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel: :knuddel:

Who are you? :chinscratch:

Oh, and happy 7000!