The Sound of One Hind Slapping Itself

[Prestidigitweeze]

Hello and huzzah to everyone. If you wouldn't mind, please spread out across the field and bend yourselves into letters that spell the words BIG MOO-HANKING DEAL. Thanks for that memorable welcome and know that I appreciate the fact you care.

A little about myself (since I myself am little):

I'm a studio musician and writer who lives in New York and snatched a Kindle 3 at launch. I currently co-edit a literary magazine which is published on the web and Kindle simultaneously; I've also written a few books which, sadly, are only available on paper.

But I haven't come to these forums to pimp my wares. I've come because I like your company, and because I intend to ask questions.

For one thing, I'm a new Kindle user who isn't a fan of, say, Agatha Christie gazing at me dourly while standing next to her own name. The screens have got to go; no avid reader needs immense forenames and foreheads to identify a fave, nor am I a fan of such nondescript renderings of their mugs, nor do many of them actually represent favorite writers. (Besides which, an e-reader bedizened with authors' pictures as screensavers seems a week Hank literal-minded to this miniature-golfer-hurling tosser-toss contestant.)

For another, I'll probably ask questions about Calibre, now that we eds are getting more serious about our Kindle edition layout. (We might also want to publish print and Kindle books simultaneously as we inch into that area with a few of our best contributors.)

So you see, I've joined these forums because I like your tone and respect your level of technical knowledge. I'd like to say I'm well-versed in the subject, but that was last year and, in the words of Ouroboros the Reptilian Nudist, to be continued.

[neilmarr]

Good to have your company, Prestidigitweeze (no way you could have chosen a more complex username -- like Joe and Bob?). Always great to welcome creative and enthusiastic new members (even musicians, even from NY). Happy Kindling, Have good, constructive fun here. Join in when you feel so moved. Very best wishes, mate. Neil

[desertblues]

Hi, welcome to MR from the Netherlands. Did you see the free classic ebooks at MR?

[Prestidigitweeze]

Originally Posted by neilmarr

(no way you could have chosen a more complex username -- like Joe and Bob?)

Glad you said something just now, as I was thinking of rejoining with a seventy-two-character username that made use of Cyrillic and Kanji.

Always great to welcome creative and enthusiastic new members (even musicians, even from NY).

Carrying a torch for that blonde viola player from the Bronx will only wound you in the end. She has that effect on most men. Let it go, for the love of Florence Q. Henderson!

[Prestidigitweeze]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Hi, welcome to MR from the Netherlands. Did you see the free classic ebooks at MR?

I have a really good friend from the Neths, DB -- a diplomat, inexplicably enough (considering my conduct). Always wanted to visit, as I like his sense of humor.

Haven't seen the free classics on MR. Do they differ from those of Project Gutenberg? Will hunt them down on your say-so, Son.

[Valmore Daniels]

welcome

[MickeyC]

hi Prestidigitweeze and welcome to MobileRead

[GeoffC]

Welcome to Mobileread....

Have you seen the Author Self-Promotion Forum ... and also the Writers' Corner ... Just two of the many gems we have on board ...


far better than plain Gutenburg issues .... >> Patricia Clark Memorial Library ...

[Prestidigitweeze]

Thanks for the welcome, Cassidy, Geoff and Valmore, and thanks tons for the links, Geoff. Indeed I was perusing the MR library and the work does seem to be more carefully confected than GP's. (I do wish the Schnitzler titles were translated into English.)

Will peruse the writer's links but don't want to be premature, as we're working on a few anthology ideas at the moment and I have to look into creating a Kindle version of a collection of my own if the publisher will allow it.

Are you a Christopher Smart fan by any chance, Geoff? Your first name and the cat avatar made me contemplate the connection.

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Welcome to Mobileread....

Have you seen the Author Self-Promotion Forum ... and also the Writers' Corner ... Just two of the many gems we have on board ...


far better than plain Gutenburg issues .... >> Patricia Clark Memorial Library ...

[PJHafner]

Hello Prestidigitweeze. I'm new on MobileRead as well. Good luck and enjoy the site!

- PJH

[Prestidigitweeze]

Why, thanks, PJH. Sounds as if we'll be enjoying the newness simultaneously!

Of course, your response is already days old now that I've answered, which means that none of it's new anymore and I've effectively ruined the whole thing. How can a person live with that?

If anyone needs me, I'll be in my office listening to "Dang Me" several hundred times.

Originally Posted by PJHafner

Hello Prestidigitweeze. I'm new on MobileRead as well. Good luck and enjoy the site!

- PJH