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lilac_jive · 01-07-2009, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Many people talk about replacing their entire paper library and the joy of having all their books on an e-book reader.

This is fine..............as long as your book reader is 'readable'. Say, for instance, you lost it, or broke it.

Now you have NO books in the house to read.

I'm just taking out insurance here. No matter what, I will have something to read.

And, since I have always (most always) bought used books, I am no contributing to any environmental concerns.

By buying from Borders I feel like I'm helping keep a good company in business. Not helping the environment at all though...

Patricia · 01-07-2009, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by pilotbob

You are forgiven child.

For your penance you must convert 10 PG books to a "real" format and upload them to the mobileread book section.

Now, go in peace.

BOb

By this method of penance I seem to have accumulated sufficient reserves to go and commit several hundred sins with impunity. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might start?

desertgrandma · 01-07-2009, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

By this method of penance I seem to have accumulated sufficient reserves to go and commit several hundred sins with impunity. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might start?

You are already a candidate for sainthood, madame Patricia.

You have liberty to do as you wish.....

zelda_pinwheel · 01-07-2009, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

By this method of penance I seem to have accumulated sufficient reserves to go and commit several hundred sins with impunity. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might start?

how do you feel about contracted hits ? i've got a list around here somewhere... especially since :

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

You are already a candidate for sainthood, madame Patricia.

You have liberty to do as you wish.....

"candidate" might even be putting it mildly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Many people talk about replacing their entire paper library and the joy of having all their books on an e-book reader.

This is fine..............as long as your book reader is 'readable'. Say, for instance, you lost it, or broke it.

Now you have NO books in the house to read.

i will probably never have to worry about that.

pilotbob · 01-07-2009, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

how do you feel about contracted hits ? i've got a list around here somewhere... especially since :

"candidate" might even be putting it mildly.

i will probably never have to worry about that.

Right... you don't get rid of ALL your books. Also, there is a forum where I can tell you to visit, I spend quite a bit of time there.

BOb

desertgrandma · 01-07-2009, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by pilotbob

Right... you don't get rid of ALL your books. Also, there is a forum where I can tell you to visit, I spend quite a bit of time there.

BOb

There is something on this site I've missed???

Tell me, quick!

Sweetpea · 01-08-2009, 02:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Many people talk about replacing their entire paper library and the joy of having all their books on an e-book reader.

This is fine..............as long as your book reader is 'readable'. Say, for instance, you lost it, or broke it.

Now you have NO books in the house to read.

I'm just taking out insurance here. No matter what, I will have something to read.

And, since I have always (most always) bought used books, I am no contributing to any environmental concerns.

I just like the smell of new paper... The first ebook device that can emulate that will be in my possession before you can say "buy it"...

Reading this thread isn't good for me... Now I want to start reading instead of working...

Maybe I should make a reading list with books to read...

Right now, it's the entire Dune series (by father and son), and I really want to finish that Hobb series too (I've read the Assassin's part). But I also want to read the May series (The Many Coloured Land and beyond), and there are some Feist books waiting in my Fictionwise bookshelf... And don't forget that last book of the Time Odyssey series by Arthur C Clark and Stephen Baxter that is also still waiting... And I finally found a new book by Stephen R Lawhead that I hadn't read and that one is also still waiting...

I don't have time to work, I must read!

vivaldirules · 01-08-2009, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

By this method of penance I seem to have accumulated sufficient reserves to go and commit several hundred sins with impunity. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might start?

Well, if I were you, Patricia, I might think of enjoying a nice Zany Carter Patricia with lunch (or for lunch) today. And perhaps another with/for dinner.

pshrynk · 01-08-2009, 09:39 AM

Boomerang, by Helen deGuerry Simpson, uploaded yesterday by Crutledge. Wonderful book! "Second Hand Lions" with a back story.

vivaldirules · 01-08-2009, 10:09 AM

As a brief diversion, I'm reading Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows for the guzillionth time. The opening is about as joyous a start of a book as I could imagine. Unfortunately, we only have it available in LRF format (perhaps I'll remedy that soon): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12047

THE RIVER BANK

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said `Bother!' and `O blow!' and also `Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, `Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.

`This is fine!' he said to himself. `This is better than whitewashing!' The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout. Jumping off all his four legs at once, in the joy of living and the delight of spring without its cleaning, he pursued his way across the meadow till he reached the hedge on the further side.

`Hold up!' said an elderly rabbit at the gap. `Sixpence for the privilege of passing by the private road!' He was bowled over in an instant by the impatient and contemptuous Mole, who trotted along the side of the hedge chaffing the other rabbits as they peeped hurriedly from their holes to see what the row was about. `Onion-sauce! Onion-sauce!' he remarked jeeringly, and was gone before they could think of a thoroughly satisfactory reply. Then they all started grumbling at each other. `How stupid you are! Why didn't you tell him -- -- ' `Well, why didn't you say -- -- ' `You might have reminded him -- -- ' and so on, in the usual way; but, of course, it was then much too late, as is always the case.

It all seemed too good to be true. Hither and thither through the meadows he rambled busily, along the hedgerows, across the copses, finding everywhere birds building, flowers budding, leaves thrusting -- everything happy, and progressive, and occupied. And instead of having an uneasy conscience pricking him and whispering `whitewash!' he somehow could only feel how jolly it was to be the only idle dog among all these busy citizens. After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

....

nekokami · 01-08-2009, 12:52 PM

Thanks for sharing that.

Been a while since I read it.

pilotbob · 01-08-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Maybe I should make a reading list with books to read...

This is a must. You can do it on goodreads.com or librarything.com. And best of all you can share the list via a link with others.

BOb

Harry001 · 01-09-2009, 08:01 AM

since i left the philipines - i don't like the smell of my books anymore.
I throwed away most of them because of that hot humid climate, they startet smelling, developed mold and had bad spots all over the pages. thanks god i had most of my books in air conditioned storage - where they are still today.

btw - i started today :

"The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy"

- i guess it was scanned because it has a lot of typos in it, but still readable.
take care

harry

Curly · 01-10-2009, 09:18 AM

I'm reading Audacity of Hope at the minute which is fascinating. I've not lived in the States for 17 years and I hadn't realised just how much I've lost touch with American politics and current events. We get so little US news here -- I don't know what I would do without online newspapers!

pilotbob · 01-11-2009, 12:37 AM

Just read tonight, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Actually, we read it out loud with a group, myself, my three kids, my sons girlfriend and my wife. Various people were doing it at various times so we each took various if not several parts. My son was hilarious as Gwendolyn. And, my 12yo daughter read the Miss Priss part.

I seemed to play all the servants. But, in the third act I got a lead part of Jack to read.

This play was a very funny read [out loud]. I don't usually like reading plays due to the format. But, with someone reading each part it was much entertainment. And, since it was a play, only took several hours... we started on the way to diner so there was a bit of an intermission.

BOb

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01-08-2009, 09:39 AM	#1254
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Boomerang, by Helen deGuerry Simpson, uploaded yesterday by Crutledge. Wonderful book! "Second Hand Lions" with a back story.

01-08-2009, 10:09 AM	#1255
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	As a brief diversion, I'm reading Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows for the guzillionth time. The opening is about as joyous a start of a book as I could imagine. Unfortunately, we only have it available in LRF format (perhaps I'll remedy that soon): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12047 THE RIVER BANK The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said `Bother!' and `O blow!' and also `Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, `Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow. `This is fine!' he said to himself. `This is better than whitewashing!' The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout. Jumping off all his four legs at once, in the joy of living and the delight of spring without its cleaning, he pursued his way across the meadow till he reached the hedge on the further side. `Hold up!' said an elderly rabbit at the gap. `Sixpence for the privilege of passing by the private road!' He was bowled over in an instant by the impatient and contemptuous Mole, who trotted along the side of the hedge chaffing the other rabbits as they peeped hurriedly from their holes to see what the row was about. `Onion-sauce! Onion-sauce!' he remarked jeeringly, and was gone before they could think of a thoroughly satisfactory reply. Then they all started grumbling at each other. `How stupid you are! Why didn't you tell him -- -- ' `Well, why didn't you say -- -- ' `You might have reminded him -- -- ' and so on, in the usual way; but, of course, it was then much too late, as is always the case. It all seemed too good to be true. Hither and thither through the meadows he rambled busily, along the hedgerows, across the copses, finding everywhere birds building, flowers budding, leaves thrusting -- everything happy, and progressive, and occupied. And instead of having an uneasy conscience pricking him and whispering `whitewash!' he somehow could only feel how jolly it was to be the only idle dog among all these busy citizens. After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. ....

01-08-2009, 12:52 PM	#1256
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Thanks for sharing that. Been a while since I read it.

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Harry001 Addict Posts: 210 Karma: 729 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Tehran/Iran - new posting 2024 Device: Nook glow light 3, 3+ and 4+, Tolino Epos 1, 2 and 3	since i left the philipines - i don't like the smell of my books anymore. I throwed away most of them because of that hot humid climate, they startet smelling, developed mold and had bad spots all over the pages. thanks god i had most of my books in air conditioned storage - where they are still today. btw - i started today : "The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy" - i guess it was scanned because it has a lot of typos in it, but still readable. take care harry

01-10-2009, 09:18 AM	#1259
Curly I need a holiday! Posts: 1,227 Karma: 4622 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Scotland Device: PRS-505, ipod touch	I'm reading Audacity of Hope at the minute which is fascinating. I've not lived in the States for 17 years and I hadn't realised just how much I've lost touch with American politics and current events. We get so little US news here -- I don't know what I would do without online newspapers!

01-11-2009, 12:37 AM	#1260
pilotbob Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,832 Karma: 11844413 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa, FL USA Device: Kindle Touch	Just read tonight, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Actually, we read it out loud with a group, myself, my three kids, my sons girlfriend and my wife. Various people were doing it at various times so we each took various if not several parts. My son was hilarious as Gwendolyn. And, my 12yo daughter read the Miss Priss part. I seemed to play all the servants. But, in the third act I got a lead part of Jack to read. This play was a very funny read [out loud]. I don't usually like reading plays due to the format. But, with someone reading each part it was much entertainment. And, since it was a play, only took several hours... we started on the way to diner so there was a bit of an intermission. BOb