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If you can listen to the books like on the Kindle's text to speech you may be able to speed up your reading a bit. Or you could try fitting in some time to read when he's napping (depending on how little he is now). That's how J.K.Rowling wrote her 1st HP book. She'd wait for her daughter to go to sleep and then write so I imagine a person could do the same while reading.
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06-13-2011, 11:26 AM | #154 |
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06-13-2011, 12:00 PM | #155 |
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Hey fellow addicts. Yesterday... yesterday I encountered a problem. Or rather, I discovered my problem is larger than I thought. I didn't purchase, so I guess that's good. But apparently some time ago, I had a bunch of ebooks that needed work. They had coding/header problems and wouldn't convert, among other things. I had gotten them back before I became a full-fledged calibre geek, and I had basically stuck them in a folder to fix later.
Well, some time passed and I forgot about them. I found them yesterday. All 170 of them. Now that I've been using calibre for a while, it took me all of a few minutes to fix the problems and then I was able to convert them to mobi. I then spent the rest of the afternoon fixing the metadata and covers, tagging them, putting some of them on lists, then sideloading them to the Kindle. Some of them were freebies, others were super-cheap bargains, others I don't even remember where they came from. All I know is that I now have 170 more books than I thought I did. That's over a year's worth of reading material. I now have 1200 books on my Kindle, and 1334 in my calibre library. Back when I first got my Kindle, I jokingly said, "God as my witness, I'll never go without books again..." and I think a part of me didn't realize I was joking and is preparing for the ebookalypse. |
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06-13-2011, 12:26 PM | #156 |
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06-13-2011, 01:15 PM | #157 |
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It keeps me off the streets, there you have it, my ebook problem is justified.
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06-13-2011, 01:38 PM | #158 |
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It has now been a whole week since I last bought an ebook.
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06-13-2011, 01:45 PM | #159 |
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06-13-2011, 02:02 PM | #160 |
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I bought a Samsung E60 the excuse was that the Sony 600 is hard to read in some types of light and the battery life is appalling. At least its better than getting a new Ipad2 .
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I'm not sure how to describe this weekend. In the "Bad Ana" column goes the fact that I spent all my B&N gift card this weekend. (Although, to be fair, almost everything I bought was something I have in paperback and can therefore now get rid of. That doesn't count, right?????) In the "Obsessive Ana" column goes the fact that I spent many hours this weekend using the improved metadata import function in Calibre to get ISBNs for all my ebooks so that I can then put them in my GoodReads to-read list. Which is purely eye candy, so I'm not sure why I spent hours and hours on it, but there you have it. In the "Good Ana" column, I finished and reviewed three ebooks. So there's that. |
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06-13-2011, 02:58 PM | #164 |
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Actually I do have a DVD that's mostly full of MR mobipocket books. lol. I love PD books and MR has the best what with the cover images and the working TOC's. They're better than the Kindle formatted books at Gutenberg and easier of access than the Classic books through Amazon as well.
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