It seems to me that if everyone else in the industry is using a format, and you refuse to support it across various hardware iterations, it's at least partially your fault for stubbornness. "You" being Amazon in this case, I have no personal beef with you. I'm just rounding out the reader opinion and supplying my personal experience and hoping it's helpful. :P
I hear you and am forced to agree (and I knew the word "you" meant someone, in this case Amazon.)
I wonder though if Amazon is going to be about Kindle like Apple is about iPod/iTunes; which is to say "we have the largest market share, so we do w/e the heck we want."
I imagine that no matter how many people complain, at the end of the day Amazon may only go out of their way to resolve the library issue if it's deemed to have made a significant enough dent in their sales figures.
They're pretty good choices, all three of them, I would say. Curtain is the last of the Poirot stories, as the title says, but I guess there is no reason why you'd have to read them in order.
They're pretty good choices, all three of them, I would say. Curtain is the last of the Poirot stories, as the title says, but I guess there is no reason why you'd have to read them in order.
I guessed as much since I can watch any ep of the TV series and not be confused. And there was a 3 for 2 sale. XD
Barnes & Noble is discontinuing the 3G model of the Nook, apparently. This doesn't apply to the WiFi-only model or the Nook Color(which never had 3G). The 3G model is $50 more and comes with free 3G for life for the purposes of shopping for and downloading books. This has been my model that I've been using, and it's been nice particularly for titles that I purchased but neglected to download or hadn't realized I hadn't downloaded. If you're planning on getting a WiFi-only device though, you're still perfectly fine.
I don't understand this. First, they create the Nook Color to compete with the iPad more than the Kindle, and now they are even further distancing themselves from direct competition with Amazon by dropping cell access.
It's possible that they think people who buy the Kindle would buy the Kindle either way, so they want to compete with other devices because they think they have a better chance of making a difference there.
Maybe they can't afford the cost of providing free 3G access for the life of their devices, or perhaps whomever they have contracts with to provide said access wants too much money for it and B&N didn't want to pay it.
For whatever reason, I say it doesn't bode well for Amazon. It doesn't help Dish Network to drop the YES Network (NY Yankees Sports) when they wanted too much money to let Dish broadcast it.
Finished the two towers. Some ending there. I look at the table of contents, so Fellowship's ending wasn't as much as a surprise as this one. Onto the film and then ROTK.
And edit after spending the several hours watching The Two Towers: Film was slow, but last hour was completely excellent in every possible way. The new Fall of Saruman didn't bother me either, as I thought it might.
Finished the two towers. Some ending there. I look at the table of contents, so Fellowship's ending wasn't as much as a surprise as this one. Onto the film and then ROTK.
And edit after spending the several hours watching The Two Towers: Film was slow, but last hour was completely excellent in every possible way. The new Fall of Saruman didn't bother me either, as I thought it might.
Oh cool, are you reading each book, then watching each movie? I've been meaning to read the books and watch the movies again, I've only seen/read them once. It actually took me years to get through the books on and off - strange, since I've read the Hobbit so many times...
Oh cool, are you reading each book, then watching each movie? I've been meaning to read the books and watch the movies again, I've only seen/read them once. It actually took me years to get through the books on and off - strange, since I've read the Hobbit so many times...
Yeah, it took me a few months to get through fellowship, but just less then a month for the Two Towers. And I'm watching each movie sort of as a back up in the oft chance I didn't understand something correctly.
I suggest that you watch Kerr's fanedit of LOTR. Kerr has fixed the movies so that they are much more like the books (eg. Faramir never takes Frodo to Osigliath)
The fan edit, like the book, spends more time with each part of the fellowship before switching to another. Also, it has been split up into six movies instead of three to reflect the way that each book is organized into two parts.
I suggest that you watch Kerr's fanedit of LOTR. Kerr has fixed the movies so that they are much more like the books (eg. Faramir never takes Frodo to Osigliath)
The fan edit, like the book, spends more time with each part of the fellowship before switching to another. Also, it has been split up into six movies instead of three to reflect the way that each book is organized into two parts.
I really do like it a lot better.
I'm not a firm believer of 'They Changed It So It Sucks', as the Lord of the Rings films do things that I don't particularly mind, as it didn't make much of an impact on the endgame. Now, if you pull a Watchmen, and change the ending, that's not cool.
Ribs: The ending is the only part that matters. Change anything else, and as long as it leads to the same place, the overall structure really is of absolutely no consequence.
I don't know if he is either, but when I was a kid I'd read at least 150 pages per day. I'm far less of a reader than I used to be(though more than most americans), some of these could be read in a day(Die Konferenz der Tiere, for example, is only 99 pages). It's more than average, but if I was on a particularly strong reading binge it would probably be fairly manageable.
Nope, i sadly don't have the time to read this much anymore but i had my years when i was reading a lot and read tons of books. Currently i just enjoy making suggestions of very good comics and books i think people could enjoy a lot if they are interested in the genres. There often is a big difference between books which are available in a bookstore and those which are really good.
I used to read LOTS. Then I decided to read a book per week (on average. You can't expect to take the same amount of time for, say, Les Misérables or The Little Prince) and did that for a while, and on summer break I'd pretty much read one book per day (here again, on average, so some days I'd read like five, and sometimes I'd take days to read one).
Now... I barely read at all O.O I have reading phases and stuff but they're few and far between. I think it's because I used to spend a lot of forced time around people (my family, school, work, etc) and reading was a way to be alone and away from everyone. Now I spend most of my time alone so I prefer activities that feel more social (IMs, Skype, forums).
I'd like to go back into reading though. Maybe I'll join a book club of some sort (we never ended up starting ours, did we guys?).
I recently read Chuck Yeager's autobiography, it was one of the best biographies I've read! If you like badass american war hero test pilots, you'll love this
I was reading a book called Boycotts & Barflies that my mom recommended to my wife and me. Turns out it's just a "chick flick" in book form, so I'm going to start reading the first book of The O'Malley Series instead. It's a mystery series that my wife likes.
It's from the 10th century, and supposedly, teaches how to achieve immortality. 3/4ths of it is the translator explaining what it all means. The text itself is pretty short, but man is it esoteric. Here's a verse:
Just when the white tiger on the west mountain goes wild, the blue dragon in the east sea cannot handle it. Catching them both, have them fight to the death, and they will turn into a mass of violet gold frost.
Just when the white tiger on the west mountain goes wild, the blue dragon in the east sea cannot handle it. Catching them both, have them fight to the death, and they will turn into a mass of violet gold frost.
I love that this comes from a book titled Understanding Reality.
I really enjoy listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks as read by Stephen Fry. I have the whole set on mp3.
It had been a while since I last heard Jim Dale's reading of the books, so I decided to listen to it for a bit, just to see if I'm not being fair in my preference of Fry over Dale.
...but it turns out that I just confirmed for myself that Stephen Fry is indeed far superior.
I really enjoy listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks as read by Stephen Fry. I have the whole set on mp3.
It had been a while since I last heard Jim Dale's reading of the books, so I decided to listen to it for a bit, just to see if I'm not being fair in my preference of Fry over Dale.
...but it turns out that I just confirmed for myself that Stephen Fry is indeed far superior.
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I hear you and am forced to agree (and I knew the word "you" meant someone, in this case Amazon.)
I wonder though if Amazon is going to be about Kindle like Apple is about iPod/iTunes; which is to say "we have the largest market share, so we do w/e the heck we want."
I imagine that no matter how many people complain, at the end of the day Amazon may only go out of their way to resolve the library issue if it's deemed to have made a significant enough dent in their sales figures.
I guessed as much since I can watch any ep of the TV series and not be confused. And there was a 3 for 2 sale. XD
Patrick Süskind's Das Parfüm.
Jack Vance's Demon Princes serie.
I don't understand this. First, they create the Nook Color to compete with the iPad more than the Kindle, and now they are even further distancing themselves from direct competition with Amazon by dropping cell access.
I don't get it.
For whatever reason, I say it doesn't bode well for Amazon. It doesn't help Dish Network to drop the YES Network (NY Yankees Sports) when they wanted too much money to let Dish broadcast it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (I+II).
Bedenke Phlebas from Ian Banks.
Thomas Bernhard's Elisabeth II. – Keine Komödie (and many others).
Jack Vance's Dying Earth serie.
And edit after spending the several hours watching The Two Towers: Film was slow, but last hour was completely excellent in every possible way. The new Fall of Saruman didn't bother me either, as I thought it might.
(also the book was 'an idoit aborad, the travel daires of karl pilkiton')
Oh cool, are you reading each book, then watching each movie? I've been meaning to read the books and watch the movies again, I've only seen/read them once. It actually took me years to get through the books on and off - strange, since I've read the Hobbit so many times...
Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Der Zahlenteufel.
Piers Anthony's Doppelwelt serie (the first books).
Yeah, it took me a few months to get through fellowship, but just less then a month for the Two Towers. And I'm watching each movie sort of as a back up in the oft chance I didn't understand something correctly.
The fan edit, like the book, spends more time with each part of the fellowship before switching to another. Also, it has been split up into six movies instead of three to reflect the way that each book is organized into two parts.
I really do like it a lot better.
I'm not a firm believer of 'They Changed It So It Sucks', as the Lord of the Rings films do things that I don't particularly mind, as it didn't make much of an impact on the endgame. Now, if you pull a Watchmen, and change the ending, that's not cool.
Many poems from Rainer Maria Rilke.
Larry Niven's Ringwelt.
Paul Klee's Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch from his Bauhaus years.
Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous mit Rama.
Erich Kästner's Die Konferenz der Tiere.
Ursula K. Le Guin's Die Enteigneten/Planet der Habenichtse.
Now... I barely read at all O.O I have reading phases and stuff but they're few and far between. I think it's because I used to spend a lot of forced time around people (my family, school, work, etc) and reading was a way to be alone and away from everyone. Now I spend most of my time alone so I prefer activities that feel more social (IMs, Skype, forums).
I'd like to go back into reading though. Maybe I'll join a book club of some sort (we never ended up starting ours, did we guys?).
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Der kleine Prinz.
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis from Douglas Adams (not because it's written well but because of the ideas).
It's from the 10th century, and supposedly, teaches how to achieve immortality. 3/4ths of it is the translator explaining what it all means. The text itself is pretty short, but man is it esoteric. Here's a verse:
I love that this comes from a book titled Understanding Reality.
To be fair, the entire thing is written in metaphors. Or at least, I think it is.
I'm reading this. Can we talk about how great it is?
Also reading:
Hans Saler's Zwischen Licht und Schatten.
David Gerrold's Die biologische Invasion serie.
It had been a while since I last heard Jim Dale's reading of the books, so I decided to listen to it for a bit, just to see if I'm not being fair in my preference of Fry over Dale.
...but it turns out that I just confirmed for myself that Stephen Fry is indeed far superior.
I mean, seriously. compare these two:
Jim Dale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeAzVwGdhNw&t=6m50s
Stephen Fry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mIjBuu5L58&t=4m03s
Hands down, Fry is better. The twins mocking Percy isn't even funny at all in the Dale version.
Jean-Philippe Peyraud's Schönheitsflecken.
That was absolutely fantastic! Stephen Fry is one of my favorite actors ever. And not much beats having Jeeves read Harry Potter.
Detlef Kersten's Kommissar Kniepel riddle books.
Richard Morgan's Das Unsterblichkeitsprogramm.