Computer woes

[OakLeaf]

Same thing with a bait-and-switch at Best Buy the other day ... DH had found a cable on sale online, of course none of the stores had it in stock even though the consumer-side website said they did - but they did have very nice cables starting at four times the price! No thanks. Showed the clerk the SKU number on the website, ordered the cable, walked out with NOTHING else.

And I'm doing plenty of reading. More than I had in a while, actually - thanks to my iPad and Sony Reader. Yes, I do regret the energy usage. But not enough to carry another couple of pounds everywhere I go - it DOES make a difference. I have a couple of paper books in my stack, that I just can't seem to get around to.

The iPad animates page turning, very faithfully. Sometimes I find it a little bit creepy ... other times, if I get distracted from what I'm reading, I might just sit there and curl the page back and forth, side to side.

[Mr. Bloom]

The good news: I just found out that the recipient was brought to tears by the gift...that's worth $22 (plus $1.99 for the box)

[tulip]

Well, I get my books from the library. I think of it as off-site storage for all my books.

[SheFly]

Well, I get my books from the library. I think of it as off-site storage for all my books.

Tulip - that would be books in the cloud

SheFly

[tulip]

Tulip - that would be books in the cloud

SheFly

I simply prefer to hold a paper book. I like the feel of the pages, the smell of books. I like to go to the library and browse the shelves and discover books I might not know about (and therefore could not look up on the internet). I'm a tactile person, though, and not everyone is.

I don't consider myself a luddite. I obviously use the internet; I even have very fast FiOS connection in my home and the internet allows me to work from home instead of going into an office. In fact, I live in a different state than my employer simply because I want to live here. Without internet, my job would dictate where I live, instead of me dictating where I live. I have an iphone 4 (Verizon--I actually can use the phone in rural areas), and I have quite a few apps. I use my computer every day for work and for some play. But I don't have a TV and I don't use facebook or twitter, so I guess I'm luddite-lite. My non-work hours are usually spent exercising, daily life, gardening, and reading--real books from the real library, the library that I ride my bike to.

[roadie gal]

2-3 days a month I go to a small town in Nevada to work at a part time job. I take my RV and park in the parking lot of the hospital for the days I'm there. I don't have a TV or a computer. I access the internet on my phone just long enough to check my email and delete those generous offers to make my p@nis bigger . That's it. I find it very freeing.

[Catrin]

Ahhhhhh... BBS.. Squawks/schreeks from a dial up modem... Dot matrix printers... 5 1/2" floppy disks... Hard drives LESS then 1GB.

What did we ever do before dsl, blazing fast computers the size of an iPhone, and WiFi?!?!

Sit and read a book as we waited for things to download - and I remember having a computer with a 150 MB hard drive - and being quite proud of having all of that space

I download books from the library, too.

This is a nice feature of the Sony Reader, and it returns them automatically when you forget - I just found that out the hard way Well, it disables them and that amounts to the same thing!

I love real books, but I do enjoy my Sony Reader - though some of the books aren't much cheaper than the hard-back version. Options are nice though, and I am thankful to have it

[OakLeaf]

Well, I get my books from the library. I think of it as off-site storage for all my books.

I download books from the library, too.

[Mr. Bloom]

Well, I get my books from the library. I think of it as off-site storage for all my books.

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