"E-reader devices", naming - Page 15

montsnmags · 05-20-2008, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

It's a "booker". Compute - er. Read - er. Something that processes books, is a booker. Right? Reading a book on a booker is "booking".

You don't think that "booker" might raise the ire of the "National Book League" of the UK for stomping on their trademark with something so gauche as new-fangled electronica that whores its content in such an incorporeal manner? Where is the respect for tradition, man!

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This discussion is unutterably silly.

...yes, and the sky is blue and the sea is wet.

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Call them whatever you want. It doesn't matter, context is king.

I thought I was King (but you can call me "Great Sage, Equal of Heaven"?

Cheers,
Marc

GeoffC · 05-20-2008, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

...yes, and the sky is blue and the sea is wet.

Where's your imagination, the sky is cerulean and the sea is not dry...

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

I thought I was King (but you can call me "Great Sage, Equal of Heaven"?

Cheers,
Marc

Thought someone else had been nominated...

Taylor514ce · 05-20-2008, 08:23 AM

Great Sage, Consumer of Thyme?

montsnmags · 05-20-2008, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Great Sage, Consumer of Thyme?

...and Galangal.

Cheers,
Marc

Luigino · 05-20-2008, 08:51 AM

Uhm are we going to discuss about Saga books now?... :P

GeoffC · 05-20-2008, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Luigino

Uhm are we going to discuss about Saga books now?... :P

Ah! Saga - a club for members older than 50...bit like books in the public domain, when they reach 50 (give or take a decade or two) they're anybodys'...

vivaldirules · 11-01-2008, 11:04 AM

Vera! Where are you, Vera? (wishing this thread would come alive once more)

Hey, look! Cute kitteh pics!

zelda_pinwheel · 11-01-2008, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Hey, look! Cute kitteh pics!

bou !!!

vera, wherefore art thou vera ?

vivaldirules · 11-02-2008, 09:23 AM

[a continuation, eight months later, from episode #1 (post #92)]

It was cold and unforgiving that morning. At least the mass of humans in the car provided some warmth. But there was that distinct sense of an odor that put me off. If it had been a warm day, the smell would have been oppressive. Forget it. I don't care anymore. I just want to see her. After months of only partial sensory perception, and sometimes none at all, as they made their repeated attempts at repairing my sensory sytem, I no longer cared about anything else. A single uneducated incompetent can sometimes create wonders but a group of highly skilled "professionals" would appear to be a hopeless lot that couldn't tie their collective shoes on a sunny day. Blithering idiots! They have no idea what they've done to me. An "Excusez moi", interrupted my grumbling as some old lady (man?) squeezed by to a seat beside me. Whatever. I don't care anymore. I just want to get there and see Vera. I have no idea what I'll say. I only know I have to see her again.

GeoffC · 11-02-2008, 10:01 AM

Bob, wherefore art thou, Bob?

Have you hidden our Vera .....

JSWolf · 11-02-2008, 10:45 AM

I just took a good look at this thread and have noticed that it actually belongs in the Lounge and not News and Commentary.

GeoffC · 11-02-2008, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I just took a good look at this thread and have noticed that it actually belongs in the Lounge and not News and Commentary.

15 pages long ....

nekokami · 11-03-2008, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I just took a good look at this thread and have noticed that it actually belongs in the Lounge and not News and Commentary.

Oh well, all right then.

vivaldirules · 11-03-2008, 06:47 PM

I stepped off the train and walked outside heading for Boulevard de Sebastapol. The air was noisy, dirty, foul. The obvious thing to do was turn back and go home but I would have missed the one thing I came for. What a strange place. Paris to me is a bewildering mixture of ugliness and beauty. A bit like a Martinu concerto - brashly discordant, to put it nicely. Or raw and just plain offensive, to be blunt. But if you let it in, let it penetrate your skin deeply enough that it evades those instinctive attempts to fend it off, its touch can be surpisingly intimate and compelling. There's a chaotic mixture of textures that individually are so varied and sensual that the whole experience is vivifying in a way that's hard to explain. A cacophony of many brilliant butterflies dancing in a sunlit shower of falling needles. No, that's a stupid metaphor. Hardly an apt description of Vera. Enough with metaphors! While there are many beautiful elements to Paris, Vera is all that matters. I had better focus my thoughts if I'm to maintain my sanity until I see her.

zelda_pinwheel · 11-03-2008, 06:49 PM

i love the ongoing saga of Vera. it's my favorite story. (along with the ongoing saga of Hugo and Lefty, of course. and a few others.)

so what happens next ???

(hugo and lefty and i are all on the edges of our respective seats.)

11-02-2008, 09:23 AM	#219
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	[a continuation, eight months later, from episode #1 (post #92)] It was cold and unforgiving that morning. At least the mass of humans in the car provided some warmth. But there was that distinct sense of an odor that put me off. If it had been a warm day, the smell would have been oppressive. Forget it. I don't care anymore. I just want to see her. After months of only partial sensory perception, and sometimes none at all, as they made their repeated attempts at repairing my sensory sytem, I no longer cared about anything else. A single uneducated incompetent can sometimes create wonders but a group of highly skilled "professionals" would appear to be a hopeless lot that couldn't tie their collective shoes on a sunny day. Blithering idiots! They have no idea what they've done to me. An "Excusez moi", interrupted my grumbling as some old lady (man?) squeezed by to a seat beside me. Whatever. I don't care anymore. I just want to get there and see Vera. I have no idea what I'll say. I only know I have to see her again. Last edited by vivaldirules; 11-02-2008 at 10:10 AM.

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05-20-2008, 08:23 AM	#213
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	Great Sage, Consumer of Thyme?

05-20-2008, 08:51 AM	#215
Luigino Groupie Posts: 176 Karma: 1950 Join Date: May 2008 Device: Nothing	Uhm are we going to discuss about Saga books now?... :P

11-01-2008, 11:04 AM	#217
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Vera! Where are you, Vera? (wishing this thread would come alive once more) Hey, look! Cute kitteh pics!

11-02-2008, 10:01 AM	#220
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Bob, wherefore art thou, Bob? Have you hidden our Vera .....

11-02-2008, 10:45 AM	#221
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,745 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I just took a good look at this thread and have noticed that it actually belongs in the Lounge and not News and Commentary.

11-03-2008, 06:47 PM	#224
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	I stepped off the train and walked outside heading for Boulevard de Sebastapol. The air was noisy, dirty, foul. The obvious thing to do was turn back and go home but I would have missed the one thing I came for. What a strange place. Paris to me is a bewildering mixture of ugliness and beauty. A bit like a Martinu concerto - brashly discordant, to put it nicely. Or raw and just plain offensive, to be blunt. But if you let it in, let it penetrate your skin deeply enough that it evades those instinctive attempts to fend it off, its touch can be surpisingly intimate and compelling. There's a chaotic mixture of textures that individually are so varied and sensual that the whole experience is vivifying in a way that's hard to explain. A cacophony of many brilliant butterflies dancing in a sunlit shower of falling needles. No, that's a stupid metaphor. Hardly an apt description of Vera. Enough with metaphors! While there are many beautiful elements to Paris, Vera is all that matters. I had better focus my thoughts if I'm to maintain my sanity until I see her.

11-03-2008, 06:49 PM	#225
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	i love the ongoing saga of Vera. it's my favorite story. (along with the ongoing saga of Hugo and Lefty, of course. and a few others.) so what happens next ??? (hugo and lefty and i are all on the edges of our respective seats.)