The greatest number of books on a liseuse

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Awww... you just gave me the warm fuzzies...

*hurries off to edit her profile and hopes DGma didn't notice the parenthesis by Asus....*

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

The reasons I gave were my reasons. I know I have all my books on my computer at home so I don't need them on my reader to remind me of that. If, while out of town, I absolutely just have to access a book I didn't put on my reader, I can just get on my netbook ango to my Carbonite backup to access the book.

I happen to like chocolate (ok, crave it ). That doesn't mean everyone has to like it. Odd as it may sound, there are people who don't like chocolate. My 7 year old granddaughter hates it. We all swear she isn't blood........even tho I saw her born, and she has so many of her fathers features. Just the good ones.

But..........what if you are stranded on a desert island or stuck in a postal line for days (with electrical connections of course) and you DON"T have your netbook.......what would you do? And you ddn't want to read anything you currently had on your device? See....I'd be prepared!!

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

You mean you never named the girls?

Yeah. "boobs"

Originally Posted by HarryT

That is not "booting up"; it's simply waking up from a suspended state. Booting up on the Kindle is when you slide and hold the power switch until it, well, boots up .

Okay, but I never use the "off" switch. I was convince by some on this board battery life would last longer. And, by the way.........I was mistaken. It takes 3 seconds to come out of the sleep mode.

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Mobileliseuse forums ......

OK. The second comedy post means I have permission to make it a trio. (The first post was phenomshel's "If I *really* wanted to be obnoxious, I'd start a thread in the Llounge titled, 'What is your liseuse's name?' ")

I think that with "liseuse" the French are trying to get back at English speakers for inflicting "le bulldozer", "le week-end" and "le (or la) job" on them.

I have nothing against French mind you. After all I live in the country that is home to the largest French speaking population that has never surrendered to the Germans. And for my own part I have a rudimentary knowledge obtained from reading cereal boxes as a child.

BTW phenomshel: Isn't Llounge where the Welsh hang out?

[Cyclops]

Originally Posted by shall1028

BTW phenomshel: Isn't Llounge where the Welsh hang out?

Yes, took the words out of my mouth. Isnt it!

[Moe The Cat]

I think the Llounge is for llamas. There were bunches of llamas hang out here a few months ago, but someone dropped some honey over at another forum and they all left.

Edit: my apologies, the llamas are still around ... and also, there's this:

[Cyclops]

There's tons of Llamas over on deviant art. Plagued with em I am!

[Worldwalker]

Originally Posted by shall1028

I think that with "liseuse" the French are trying to get back at English speakers for inflicting "le bulldozer", "le week-end" and "le (or la) job" on them.

Who inflicted anything? It's their choice whether they want to use an English word or make up one of their own. Languages work that way.

And on that note, I'm certainly not going to use a made-up (and incorrect, according to some here) French word for a ebook reader, which already has a perfectly good English name. Nor am I going to pretend that it is a valid English word, any more than I'd start saying "ordinateur" instead of "computer" in English because that's what it is in French. Or Rechner, tölva, or dator for that matter.

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

Who inflicted anything? [blah blah blah] Languages work that way.

It is said that diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy while you look for a big stick.

My "nice doggy" is to quote myself "the second comedy post means I have permission to make it a trio."

The big stick is to quote myself with italics "the second comedy post means I have permission to make it a trio". Also to reiterate that everything in my post was meant to be humourous (i.e. funny) and the emoticons should have been a dead give away. As part of that humour was what, for me, passes as a small amount of irony (i.e. the use of the word inflicted).

As for the use of "liseuse" let it not be mistaken that am in favour of its use. I personally won't be doing so soon. I merely acknowledge that some people, but not thee and me, do attempt to use it but I rather suspect that it will fade through lack of adoption (much like Sony's memory stick has).

We return you to our regularly scheduled off-topic interruption.

[Maggie Leung]

Originally Posted by Cyclops

What on earth is a liseuse?

Maybe a new strategy: If you can't invent something worth adopting, then rename something someone else invented and try to appropriate it that way?

[captcrouton]

You can store books on your book light? Is that a feature with the new Kindle 3 covers? That's a really odd innovation. I don't think I'll run out of room on my Kindle at any time.

[jeffcobb]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Disclaimer

I have 974 books on my Sony, all stored on an SD card and categorized into 257 Collections. I don't find the indexing when I add a new book to be unduly long, and yes, it's fully functional.

Try a Nook ....

[NormHart]

When I got my Kindle 2 (Alexandria) I kept between 90 and 120 ebooks on her. (Not only named but anthropomorphized and genderfied, sorry DG.) Once I got Armaria (she's a Kindle 3) I've kept to my same method. However, I gave Alexandria to my sister and loaded her up with almost 700 ebooks. It took a couple of days and a recharge for Alexandria to index all those since they were dumped in all at once. Once indexing was done I did not notice any lag in wake-up or start-up. My sister and Alexandria came up to visit last weekend and my sister had a longish list of ebooks she wanted. We added about 50 ebooks on to Alexandria and she (the liseuse) had a pretty hard time indexing them and crashed to the point of requiring a hard reboot. Once again, once the indexing was done all was well with her (the liseuse) and my sister.

Short answer 750.

[speakingtohe]

Hmmm. The story of Alexandria is a bit scary as I will be trying to put a lot of books on the Kindle 3 I have ordered for my mother. She lives several thousand miles away and at 85 may not catch on for a bit how to do this herself.
Hoping for the best for both my mother's reader and Alexandria

BTW I put 1100 epubs on a Sony in under an hour including indexing with room for many many more

[NormHart]

I think that when we added the 50 ebooks we would have been fine except that my sister got in a hurry while using the back button. She was unsure how many time she pressed it, and then the page buttons, then the menu button, etc.

I suspect poor Alexandria was rather overwhelmed, I've seen other stories like this, one must be understanding and a bit slow while the Kindle is catching up.

[OakIris]

Originally Posted by astra

AprilHare
You are bored. Long peaceful life on MR is too good for you and you are looking for a fight, aren't you?

Well at least it looks as if the OP set the ball rolling and is just sitting back and watching our reactions. You'll notice that she/he hasn't added a single response in this thread that she/he started.

I'll admit, since I am new to this world (as a long time pbook addict) that I did have to look up the word "liseuse" as I had never seen it before. I thought it was a misspelling, actually, though of what I wasn't sure. Personally, I will probably just stick to "eReader," but each to her or his own.

Holly

[Quake1028]

I only have 73 on my K3 right now. I have around 800 on my PC, just too lazy to put them all on, to be honest. I like to keep it to a manageable read/to be read pile.