The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[HLS]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Rant: When a book makes you want to hurl it against the wall, but you don't want to destroy your eReader.

That’s how I felt about the dark tower series. I absolutely hated it from book one but I read the whole damn thing because I needed to know the ending. I was so frustrated with the ending. I almost broke my nook lol.

[HLS]

I have a rant on my own stupidity, and I mentioned this on another thread also. I had no idea you could change the backgrounds on the Kobo note books. I thought it was just the two templates. I just now discovered that when you create a basic template, you could change the background to dozen or so templates. They call it backgrounds but it’s the same thing lol I had the Sage for over a year the first generation Elipsa for about six months and I had the 2E for about a month and I just now figured it out. I feel so stupid. I never noticed the “…” on the top right corner lol. Also, before anyone complains about my grammar, I use speech to text on my iPad and it’s not always correct.

[ownedbycats]

What is with people who do this?

[Aleron Ives]

Some people have to weigh in on everything, even when they have nothing to say. Learning when to be silent is an art that many people never master.

[Dazrin]

Not sure where that's from but I know on Goodreads I did the same basic thing - marked a lot of books I had read a long time ago as read without a star rating (or comments) and then moved on. I was just trying to see what all I could remember and the list was the point - it did knock loose a couple good memories at the time. It could be their way of leaving themselves a sticky note.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

What is with people who do this?

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That's almost as bad as someone leaving a 1-star rating on Amazon because something was late arriving. That has nothing to do with the item being reviewed and/or rated.

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

That's almost as bad as someone leaving a 1-star rating on Amazon because something was late arriving. That has nothing to do with the item being reviewed and/or rated.

Or the classic Amazon customer question answered on the site with "Why are you asking me about this product? I bought it for my niece for Christmas and don't know anything about it" etc.

Andrew

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by andyh2000

Or the classic Amazon customer question answered on the site with "Why are you asking me about this product? I bought it for my niece for Christmas and don't know anything about it" etc.

Andrew

part of that is a clumsy design by Amazon; the wording of the 'can you answer this question?' email can lead some less tech-literate users to think someone is personally asking them and feel obligated to respond.

[HLS]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

What is with people who do this?

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Yep. why comment if you have nothing to comment about lol