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Originally Posted by mldavis2
I've been registered for the MR forums for a week now and I don't know how on earth all you guys have the time to read your eBooks and keep up with all the posts on these threads!  I got up this morning and there were 7 or 8 'pages' full of new posts to read through, many with multiple entries on each thread. I'm trying to learn all about these toys (sorry, tools  ) but I can't keep up with posts and have time to do any eBook reading, too! I'm beginning to become very selective with what I follow here but I'm also afraid I'll miss something. How do you do it??  Or have you given up reading eBooks?  |
hey....suck it up and cope fer goodness sakes!! hahahaha...
Some of us use the boards as a distraction from thing. So there can be a lot of posts, most of which are really not more than "me too" stuff...so don't feel like there is pressure and just follow your interests.
It helps to set your account to automagically subscribe to threads where you post that means you don't have to intentionally subscribe to the thread. The once the thread wanders off into redundancy just kill the subscription.
And of course there is the ability to subscribe to a thread you only want to follow as well. I often use this feature to keep track of threads which have something I am specifically interested in...and don't try and learn everything at once...and oh yeah, beware eBAS (eBook Acquisition Syndrome) as that will be your undoing. I now have a library enough to last me a half dozen lifetimes or longer. Almost all of which were free plus there is the evil place called
http://www.webscriptions.net if you enjoy SF...they not only have an excellent selection of ebooks, granted it's somewhat tilted toward MilSF (no, not MILF's but Military Science Fiction so type that acronym with caution,
) but even if that is not your preference, they also have a lot of other options. PLUS they have a HUGE free library as well, with some excellent titles.
Otherwise, hang in there and don't try to do it all...the info is always going to be there to read if the need arises.