Woe be unto ye

On 01/08/2011 08:32 AM, Russell D. wrote:
On 01/07/2011 09:45 PM, Steve W. wrote:
Giles wrote:
On Jan 6, 11:44 pm, wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:22:02 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

THIS is what comes of having a family! I do not recommend it. :
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*snippage*

giles
who, like he ain't already got enough to do!
Cool. I looked at my first e-reader this holiday past and I too have
to admit that I was impressed. I downloaded books into my Palm Z22 for
years and when you had the auto scrolll set right it wasn't a bad way
to read books. But the Nook I looked at had fantastic resolution on
the print in comparison. I am considering a purchase.

Geo. C.

I used a Sony hend-held for several years. It was way cool to be able
to download books and carry them around in my pocket. But after the
inital buzz wore off, honest evaluation set in. It was a very tedious
way to read for many reasons.

The Kindle (and others of its ilk, I assume) is a vast improvement.
First and foremost, it looks and feels and reads much like a book.
This is crucially important.

However, I've already noted some things I'd change. First, a book
should open to two facing pages. Anything else is just not right.
And I'm not crazy about moving about from page to page by pushing a
button. I'd much rather "flip" the pages by swiping them with a
fingertip.
I-Pad does all the above BUT at a price...

The biggest of which is eye strain. Extended reading on a back-lit
screen can be very tiring.

Russell

Some day, I'll have to retire the old Palm M515 I've been using as a
"book" in favor of the real thing. It'd be nice to be able to see more
than one paragraph at a time. Still, for now it seems that all I read
are college textbooks. I'll wait a few months until I can once again
read for pleasure rather than the memorization of facts and factoids.

On Jan 9, 5:47*pm, Mark Allread none@none wrote:


Some day, I'll have to retire the old Palm M515 I've been using as a
"book" in favor of the real thing. It'd be nice to be able to see more
than one paragraph at a time. Still, for now it seems that all I read
are college textbooks. I'll wait a few months until I can once again
read for pleasure rather than the memorization of facts and factoids.

Not to belittle memorization of facts and factoids (as noble a pursuit
as most humans seem incapable of imagining.....let alone pursuing or
accomplishing), but reading for pleasure (which, it should be
remembered, by no means precludes edification) is, at one and the same
time, among both the most selfish and most selfless of all the
activities that one can engage in.

But, as is often the case, Mr. Clemens said it better.....and more
succinctly: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who can't read them."

Food (and good, nutritious food at that) for thought.

Wolfgang

Giles wrote:
On Jan 9, 5:47 pm, Mark Allread none@none wrote:


Some day, I'll have to retire the old Palm M515 I've been using as a
"book" in favor of the real thing. It'd be nice to be able to see more
than one paragraph at a time. Still, for now it seems that all I read
are college textbooks. I'll wait a few months until I can once again
read for pleasure rather than the memorization of facts and factoids.

Not to belittle memorization of facts and factoids (as noble a pursuit
as most humans seem incapable of imagining.....let alone pursuing or
accomplishing), but reading for pleasure (which, it should be
remembered, by no means precludes edification) is, at one and the same
time, among both the most selfish and most selfless of all the
activities that one can engage in.

But, as is often the case, Mr. Clemens said it better.....and more
succinctly: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who can't read them."

Food (and good, nutritious food at that) for thought.

Wolfgang

I'll read just about anything. From classic stuff to tech manuals.
Started that well before I started school. Had an extended stay in a
hospital when I was about 4 and got so bored I started reading anything
I could get. I had nurses bringing me in books from home and the local
library as well as the ones my parents would bring down.

Fast forward a few years to a speed reading course in HS. The teacher
there started out with a speed and comprehension study to see where we
were starting at. The only problem was that I was way off the top end of
the chart. Without skipping words or paragraphs the way she wanted us to
do. I ended up taking the final the second day of class.
During the same time frame I was also a Literacy volunteer at the local
neighborhood center.


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Steve W.

On Jan 9, 10:53*pm, "Steve W." wrote:
Giles wrote:

...as is often the case, Mr. Clemens said it better.....and more
succinctly: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who can't read them."

Food (and good, nutritious food at that) for thought.

Wolfgang

I'll read just about anything. From classic stuff to tech manuals.

I'll read tech manuals......under either of two sets of conditions.
One, I absolutely MUST have the information, and there is no other way
to get it or, two, there is absolutely nothing else to do and
abolutely no other reading material available. Fotunately, both sets
of conditions are rare, and the latter increasingly so as I now have a
virtually unlimited set of books available at all times.....no more
sitting in the waiting room and suddenly discovering that there are
only two pages left!

There's other stuff that I won't willingly touch, but not so much that
I don't feel justified in claiming rather broad tastes. I've only got
a few pages of Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" left. Classic
trash.....but trash nevertheless.

Luckily, Twain's dictum does not preclude ingestion of materials
entirely devoid of nutritional content.

Wolfgang