Advice for reading ebooks using an ipod Touch & a Windows XP PC

[n00]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

He's died in the wool Mac and I'm died in the wool Windows.

No offense intended -- I know how annoying language purists can be, though I am a bit of one myself -- but it's "dyed in the wool". Now it makes more sense, no?

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by n00

No offense intended -- I know how annoying language purists can be, though I am a bit of one myself -- but it's "dyed in the wool". Now it makes more sense, no?

Since this is MobileRead, a site geared towards reading, I reckon there's probably quite a number of "language purists" here.

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by n00

No offense intended -- I know how annoying language purists can be, though I am a bit of one myself -- but it's "dyed in the wool". Now it makes more sense, no?

I'm purist too. No... I'm pedantic. However... it may be that those you are responding to will not notice... the thread is 4 years old. I've done that before and wondered why the OP never answered. LOL>

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

I'm purist too. No... I'm pedantic. However... it may be that those you are responding to will not notice... the thread is 4 years old. I've done that before and wondered why the OP never answered. LOL>

I often wonder why there isn't a mechanism to automatically close any thread that has been inactive for a set period of time, say 6 months. That would allow us to read the older threads but prevent us from posting to them. I've done it myself a few times when the month and day are close to the current date but I somehow don't notice the year in the date is older than the current year.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by jswinden

I often wonder why there isn't a mechanism to automatically close any thread that has been inactive for a set period of time, say 6 months. That would allow us to read the older threads but prevent us from posting to them. I've done it myself a few times when the month and day are close to the current date but I somehow don't notice the year in the date is older than the current year.

There is a mechanism that warns you that the thread is old. All people need to do is read it. Occasionally there may be a reason to reopen a thread.

[n00]

Four of you have joined into this conversation within two days. It doesn't seem to matter much that it was dormant for four years. It certainly doesn't matter to me -- I was just talking to whomever was listening, not necessarily to the OP.