On Jan 30, 11:36*am, jeff wrote:
On 1/30/2011 11:32 AM, JR wrote:



I've noticed, when looking to download MP3s of new albums, that a number
are being issued in _vinyl_ in addition to digital.

So here's my plan. Once books are good and dead, I bring them back as
RetroReads , and make a mint.

Whadayathink?

- JR

just bought a kindle...unfortunately, i've lost the password for my home
cisco linksys router, and i can't connect to the wifi here. *so, drove
to a washhouse with free wifi and downloaded a free bram stoker
"dracula" from amazon.

You can also download stuff directly from your computer via a usb
connection, you know. The Kindle supports a fairly wide variety of
formats. I've put hundreds of documents on mine without bothering to
go online. Yeah, I DID get many of the that way, originally.....but
that's not necessary either.

i'm always acquiring stuff at the pinnacle of its price point. *now that
i have it, i've no doubt the technology will move to hologram
books...you know, a tiny object, press a button, a book is displayed
star wars style in the air within reading distance...

Last night I slipped on some ice while crossing a street. Took a
pretty good pavement whallop to the old melon. I saw things NOBODY
has imagined.....yet. Naturally, it occured to me to write them down
as soon as I got home. Couldn't remember. So I went back today,
armed with a video camera and a notebook, and looked for the icy spot.

Gone.

Well.....****!

or, perhaps
retrofitting teevees to play audio books while displaying the pages.

I think that may have been done.....back in the "educational" as
opposed to the much more recent and progressive "public" television
days. In any case, the "public" while perhaps not quite unanimous,
appear to enjoy a widespread consensus in hoping that **** stays
private.

a group read!!

Sick *******. There could be children in the audience here, you know.

anyway, i've a few fiberglass rods and a number of the
vinyl you can offer as part of your retroread package.

Vinyl is making a big comeback.....or so I was informed by several
"serious" audiophiles I was acquainted with when I lived in the
city....folks who spent in the tens of thousands of dollars on the
latest and greatest.

I dunno.

I mean, if the evidence is to be given credence most of them knew less
about the formal elements of music than I do. And we're talking about
someone who can generally spot the difference between a cantata and
middle C......but cannot guarantee a comprehensible disquisition on
the distinctions between them.

I came away convinced that, under the right conditions, most of them
could be sucke.....um.....educated.....into paying three hundred
dollars or more for a fishing pole.

jeff ("stranger in a strange land" - b. stoker)

I knew that Heinlein wasn't the first to use it* but I'd entirely
forgotten (or overlooked) Stoker.

giles
*Exo 2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for
he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.