Computer woes

[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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