09-19-2012, 05:56 PM | #21211 | |
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09-20-2012, 02:29 PM | #21212 |
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I am literally within *squeezes thumb and index finger tight together* this much of converting my K3 into a doorstop. I've been complaining about amazon prices for Canadians for a while now. Today I did a search of 11 books I'd like to read.
Amazon: $144.82US Chapters: $128.09CDN plus I could get another 5% off that with my Chapters card. Basically for 11 books from Amazon, I could buy 13 books from Chapters. Ugh. While Chapters will never have the dearth of cheapies like Amazon (not really a problem since I don't read them.) Buying a Kobo would give me access to a lot more options for epub stores as well. So the question is, why do I hold on to my Kindle? Why? |
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09-20-2012, 02:56 PM | #21213 |
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There's actually some research on why people keep on track after having recognised a wrong decision. Your question is answerable
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09-20-2012, 03:18 PM | #21214 |
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^There's also research that given too many options and too much information we will make bad decisions as well.
I'm sure it's answerable. The fact that I paid nothing for my e-reader (it was a prize) probably factors into my format inertia as well. |
09-20-2012, 04:03 PM | #21215 | |
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09-20-2012, 05:23 PM | #21216 |
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I've thought about that too. It's certainly more work to read at that point. Part of what I liked about just buying ebooks from Amazon and using library paper books for everything else.
Of course, there's the issue that it's become a criminal offense to strip DRM, even for personal use in my country. |
09-20-2012, 05:29 PM | #21217 |
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Um ..... which country? Or don't I want to know?
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09-20-2012, 05:32 PM | #21218 |
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Canada. Our newest bill has made it illegal to strip DRM of any sort for any personal use. So taking your DVD and putting it onto your iPad is illegal.
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09-20-2012, 06:36 PM | #21219 |
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Ah, adopted the German idiocy.
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09-20-2012, 07:15 PM | #21220 | |
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09-20-2012, 07:34 PM | #21221 |
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A german bookshop (forgotten which one) has shopping bags decorated with "warning boxes" of the same layout as are found on cigarettes saying: "reading endangers stupidity"...
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09-20-2012, 07:46 PM | #21222 |
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When unreasonable laws are passed, reasonable men break them.
Entire countries were founded on that belief. Stitchawl |
09-22-2012, 03:03 AM | #21223 |
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I'm waiting for my sister to finish her shower so I can wash my face. The problem is that it's her day off today so the shower can take a long time (I'm now waiting for over 15 minutes). Using cold water isn't a problem, water pressure only goes down a little bit, so I've brushed my teeth. However, using warm water will diminish the shower jet to a trickle, and I'm not planning to wash my face with cold water since it isn't exactly warm. Maybe I'm just too nice and I should just use warm water; everybody else seems to use warm water when I'm taking a shower. |
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Rains came so hike to waterfalls had to be canceled. Some time ago we received tickets for a free lunch at a very exclusive hotel in Kyoto. The sort of place where lunch for one costs about $75.00 USD and provides just a bit less food than would be required by a hamster. The restaurant surround a typical Japanese garden complete with waterfall, koi, and even two swans a'swimming. Lunch; a starter plate with a 1" square (not cubed... square) of Salmon mouse 1/4" thick served beside a sprig of dill, followed by a chilled pumpkin soup served in a beautiful double bowl; the lower holding crushed ice and the upper bowl the size of half a tennis ball half filled with soup. The main course came on a huge plate but only held one spear of asparagus, one floret of broccoli (crossing each other, of course,) and a pearl onion, with a spoonfull of cream dressing over it, and a medallion of beef roughly the size of can of snuff but thinner. Desert was an ice cream the size of a fig with a sprig of mint on top. Nouvelle cuisine. Delicious, but not much there and costing a small fortune. But.... we had free tickets. And I'm on a diet eating 1/4 of what I would normally eat. What a perfect lunch! Free. Almost no calories because of so little food, and delicious! I think there really IS a God! Stitchawl |
09-22-2012, 04:28 AM | #21225 |
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